S.a.r.s.

mooman_00

Not sure where to post this but here goes......

Cdwow deliver from hong kong.....hong kong being one of the newest regions for the outbreak of sars and boasting the highest death rate in one day......would you open the package/ have nothing to do with it/ incinerate it without thought?.......

just wondering as im getting four packages off them tomorrow and my aunt doesnt want them in the house.....this will affect my metroid prime playing as its in one of the packages.....

CuLT

Well, I don't think there's a "Disease Outbreak" board yet, but I wouldn't open it, is it worth risking your life over a few games?

TomTom

I doubt it would post that much threat. Everday stuff is being posted around the world from hong kong and from what I can see there has been no major postal outbreak. It's not antrax they are posting.

mooman_00

i dont think its that risky either, i think its only passed in close contact so far afaik......and yes it is worth the risk to play the game.......

Trebor

easy put on some rubber gloves and wash the contents as it is spread by people coughing on you and it only kills 3.9%. what's life without a risk

elexes

if the delivery guy looks asian get a gun demand he takes 3 steps forward puts the box and signiture tab down then 10 backwords use your own pen to sign for it take ur box inside .

if u hear anything moving inside the box start shooting . if he moves twords you end his life in self defence

Sposs

To Be honest how many packages are you going to ever receive from Hong Kong.

mooman_00

Originally posted by Sposs
To Be honest how many packages are you going to ever receive from Hong Kong.

four tomorrow, one in about a weeks time another 4-5 in a months time, dunno how much more after that .........


might get one of them mail order brides too.......might be safer to just get a russian one alltogether .....

Sposs

Yes im Lazy i didnt read your very first Post

TomTom

If it is bothering you that much, why don't you track the package and ring the courier service and find out if anyone became ill after your package was passed through their depots. You can take this as being sarcastic or sencere, either way I would not worry if I was you.

mooman_00

na not personally worried, more worried bout the ban on bringing my new purchases into her house, she does put me up for relatively nothing.......i think ill just sneak in metroid prime and leave the rest at work....

Gordon

Originally posted by mooman_00
might be safer to just get a russian one alltogether .....

Russian brides are most certainly not safe - trust me on this one

The Sweeper

I'd laugh my ass off if your aunt got a dose of the snifflies about five days after the cd came into the house...

..."I don't feel so well, coughcoughcough"...

Rabies

out of the thousand or so people infected with the SARS virus, only about 150 have died.
just play your game, i know i would. its metriod prime. you can't just leave it sitting in a box and let the SARS virus play it.
Go get infected. have fun.
I heard the nurses in hospital these days love to give sponge baths

Tusky

bijillions of packages come from over yonder open it ! im sure they would be carefull to make sure they werent sending cardboard boxs of death over to our lil island

D-Generate

There is absolutely no danger of contracting S.A.R.S through a package. It can only be spread through close contact and the lifespan of the virus in the air is very short. If you are afraid of opening the package then you should be afraid of opening any letter as the common cold and flu are much more easily spread.

In a big, tight, crowd 1 person with S.A.R.S may spread it to 3 people at most. A person with a cold could spread it to 18+ people.

Amz

Well done D-Generate

At least someone seems to be paying attention

RasTa

yea sars only kills ppl who have weak immune systems so in the majority of cases it is only old ppl or children who can die from it

Trebor

Originally posted by Amz
Well done D-Generate

At least someone seems to be paying attention

or was just watching sky news

Saruman

Originally posted by Trebor
or was just watching sky news

They have news on sky now? i thought it was just the war!

Anyway you cant get it from a package.. this is not Anthrax we are talking about here!!

mooman_00

OK cheers for the replies...................i just want to make it clear that i personally had no problems with opening the thing and have said packages opened and sitting on my desk at the mo, it was my aunt who was worried but has since changed her mind.....this was a bit of a rant really and i was interested in what people thought themselves, wheither anyone over here really gave a shiit about it....

WhiteWashMan

Originally posted by D-Generate


In a big, tight, crowd 1 person with S.A.R.S may spread it to 3 people at most. A person with a cold could spread it to 18+ people.

you mean that the common cold is so intelligent it will only spread to those over 18 years old?


hmmm, i forsee some interesting future biological warfare that targets age!

Space Coyote

Who is atri jaugar? Any relation to mick?

Sev

You know yourself...

DOMESTOS: kills all known germs... DEAD (Including e-coli and listeria)

DapperGent

Nobody ever writes to me.

TomTom

Dear DapperGent

I am writing to you concerning your concerns that no one seems to be concerned with writing to you. I know that you may be concerned that this is a post and not snail mail but don't concern yourself with that, concern yourself with the fact that the word concern sounds funny when you say it alot. I am concerned that you may not be concerned about the fact that I thing concerned is a funny word.

Good Bye
TomTom (i really am concerned)

Kali

hmm im meant to be wandering over to thailand in july.. things better have cooled off by that stage

mooman_00

sars would be the least thing to worry about catching over in thailand........:D