Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-30049823-20200203190207/@comment-24743922-20200303012848

Hey, guys, I am currently preparing for a possible Coronavirus outbreak in my town- as an Endemics Combat Agent, I don't fight the virus itself- that's a job for the Community Health Agents- but we are always ready to provide support.

So, let me tell you: without a proper host, the virus does not survive. It's not a matter of "how long?", it's a matter of "is there a human in this box that can get infected?" If the answer is "no", you are good to go. The whole shipping process involves irradiation of packages, exactly because of diseases thay may be creeping on your Tyco blasters. Like Anthrax.

The thing that's slowing down the production of Chinese stuff is the lack of workforce- they cannot stay together on the workstations for safety reasons, and without production there is no base materials, and no transport, and no refined products, and that created the huge snowball that we see now.

TL;DR open your package. It's safe.