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Ok. First the article is misleading. It says the virus is detectable up to 24 hours. Huge difference in “up to 24 hours” and 24 hours. Second, just because it can be detected, doesn’t mean it’s infectious. There’s a big difference between the two. Also, it would mean that the box would have to be touched by and infected by the virus, when every store I know of is taking and making workers wear gloves to that exact thing doesn’t happen.The first article is a layman's explanation of the original scientific journal article that seems to have become the standard for describing how long different surfaces can be a viable source of contamination. It's not an on/off length of time, but a slow decrease of the number of active virus particles that remain on various surfaces.
Get a squirt bottle...mix 1/3 cup bleach to a gallon of water and pour in squirt bottle...Squirt down various surfaces/packages/mail etc to your comfort level...on hard surfaces, let bleach solution remain at least a minute before wiping dry...It's not an "Instant Kill" like a wasp spray...it needs time to do its thing
Coronavirus survives on surfaces up to 72 hours. Here's how to protect yourself
The new #coronavirus survives on surfaces up to 72 hours. Here's how to protect yourself.www.statnews.com
Anyhow, you also need to get into viral load, and it’s looking more and more like this virus is needing 15 plus min in close contact with someone who is positive closer than 6 feet. Which means here again some stock boy at midnight isn’t going to infect you.
Now, mega doses of Vitamin C aren’t proven in any peer reviewed literature for any good to anything. Yes, keeping up on it is critical. But the people who are taking 200-1000x the doses are completely wrong. Ultraviolet light does kill it, but the ultraviolet needed to do it will blind you amongst other things. UV light is a standard accepted way of microbial decontamination, but your little UV light you got at Claire’s ain’t going to do jack. Sunshine will and has been a proven killer for microbes and virus for years. Here again, you can’t realistically sterilize yourself outside. You can help your vitamin D which is huge (take a supplement too) but sterilizing yourself not so much.
