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OK, not to be paranoid but.......Now that they've confirmed that this bug lives on surfaces for 24+ hours, a whole new chain of infection vectors can appear. Air travelers who have been infected have now infected the interior of the aircraft. Same with any form of public transportation.

If it lives that long on exposed surfaces, I wonder about in a vacuum environment - as in let's say a production worker in China coughs into the packaging equipment, transferring the virus to that widget on its' way to Wal Mart. If it goes dormant in vacuum packaging, the 24 hour theory may be out the window as well.

No word on decontamination for those aircraft interiors.

If we're going to keep this disease under control here, we shouldn't be unloading a single damned container from China, or allowing any planes to land that have held infected people or packages, and given the large community of people from China and its' provinces in Canada I'd say our northern border should require all who are entering the US to stay confined in quarantine for 10 days. Same goes for goods. NO EXCEPTIONS.

It's a bitter economic pill to swallow, but it will be far better than the costs of facing this if it goes pandemic as well as incresing in virulence.

... let's say a production worker in China coughs into the packaging equipment, transferring the virus to that widget on its' way to Wal Mart.

That's a reasonable worry, but the disease has been around China for what, six months? and so far WalMart customers aren't falling over dead. Unless there's a very long latency period, it may be that this potential vector hasn't panned out.