{"id":36254,"date":"2020-03-15T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T11:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=36254"},"modified":"2020-03-15T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T11:50:16","slug":"tomorrow-i-may-be-swamped-with-a-burden-of-portentious-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/03\/15\/tomorrow-i-may-be-swamped-with-a-burden-of-portentious-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tomorrow I may be swamped with a burden of portentious mail&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just taken in a consignment of copies your new book or magazine, printed in somewhere like China or Italy? Or had curious Lovecraftian packages in the mail?  Then you&#8217;ll be needing <em>Less Wrong&#8217;<\/em>s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/posts\/e58HBiXEY4ivNgZRg\/comprehensive-covid-19-disinfection-protocol-for-packages\">&#8220;Comprehensive COVID-19 Disinfection Protocol for Packages and Envelopes&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or, rather more simply, you could just leave them in a hallway or spare room for 15 days, after which time any virus traces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalofhospitalinfection.com\/article\/S0195-6701(20)30046-3\/fulltext\">should theoretically<\/a> be kaput &mdash; even at chilly temperatures.  But it seems a freezing garage is probably not the best place to store the consignment, as such virii can go into cold storage and persist for longer. So if that&#8217;s all you have, add a low level of electric trickle-heat.<\/p>\n<p>Also, some may be considering sending glossy cards\/postcards to elderly and ill folk in isolation until perhaps the end of May 2020. There are such programmes starting up but they seem like a very bad idea, given the type of surfaces and the hand-contact and envelope-licking involved. Something virtual like Skype or a phone message would be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just taken in a consignment of copies your new book or magazine, printed in somewhere like China or Italy? Or &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/03\/15\/tomorrow-i-may-be-swamped-with-a-burden-of-portentious-mail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}