I know it’s hard, 5 years ago cancer took my mother and 5 years like a zombie I have been, unable to be happy because everytime I feel happy I’m instantly reminded she is not here to share that with me. It feels like a dagger through the heart, unable to heal and slowly killing me bit by bit. It becomes unbearable at times that I wish life ends soon and so will my suffering but the thought of the unbearable pain could fall on my children, I have to put on a brave face and try not to pass this on.
I wish you are more brave than I am. And find peace so life goes on for you again.
Please accept my heart-felt condolences (both of you). I can sympathize. I lost my mother to cancer ~10 years ago, then my father died less than a year later. It still hurts, but, as you said, “life goes on”.
I understand the coronavirus is going to cause some delays. But Pimax is notorious for delaying things all the time. I don’t want them to use the coronavirus as an excuse if the delay is going to be months long.
I will give it another month or until mid April. If there’s no update by then I’m going to cancel my 8K X order and wait until it starts arriving in people’s hands.
Sorry to hear that dude , I went through that 2 years ago, and time is a great healer , it may feel like it will be raw forever , but it gets a bit easy’er to except over time, keep your chin up ,and we’ll have some fun laughing at delays on the forum!!!
I couldn’t help but feel for pimel, there are many broken ppl like us trying to pick ourselves up, and put ourselves back to one piece. He’s not alone in this fight.
Its very frightening this is not only about dying of the love ones but it also go on tormenting the ones who still lives. Not only human too.
My dog, who was the darling of the house, after my mom passed away, I sort of can tell he knows what’s going on. I looked after him but he’s eyes were lifeless and seemed to have lost his soul, he refused food many times and barely ate anything since, a week later he lied on the ground I went to check on him, he lost the will to live I saw that in his eyes and I just hold him until he stopped moving, this is a week after mom gone.
Sure, coronavirus, it’s pretty bad, ppl are dying.
In shanghai ppl are back to work but only 1/3 ppl are and many still work from home, friend from shanghai told me couple days ago.
Friend in wuhan said he’s running out of supplies, his dad is going to try sneak into his place to give him stuff so he can live.
Of course no-one can give a 100.000% guarantee that it is absolutely impossible to catch any sort of virus from products that are shipped from abroad. The WHO&CDC is not going to issue such a guarantee.
I think the point we are trying to make is that the risk of getting seriously ill with the new coronavirus because you receive a package from abroad is minimal compared to a lot of other risks we face everyday.
Many viruses are lab viable (can be cultured) for several days on hard surfaces, but are very unlikely to be biologically viable (actually human catchable) after under an hour, especially with UV from sunlight, but it doesn’t reduce to 0%.
An exception is norovirus, that nasty critter can survive months, it is the waterbear of viruses.
Let’s hope you are right. Just wondering why official tests (or the publication of the results) take so long. This isn’t so much a thing of believe or disbelief, it could just be disproven or verified empirically by doing related experiments. As long as there is scientific evidence that it might be possible such tests appear absolutely essential to me.
The only downside of such a test that I can come up with is that one cannot claim “we didn’t know” anymore as soon as it was officially tested?
I hope I’m just paranoid about the topic and I think I’ll shut up about it now (as it doesn’t help).
Would just be glad to read about an empiric test that gives green light as the current mismatch between published results, official communication and lack of (reporting) testing (results) appears not conclusive to me.
8KX - “first batch build expected April 2nd” - some may be lucky in April but most will be from May onwards
MAS - “Small batches in March, full ramp in end of April. Goal is very high volume production during the summer” - some may be lucky before May but most will be June onwards
If you are worried about this telling you that you probably don’t need to worry isn’t going to be helpful to you.
So… my advice.
Chemicals are no good as may damage the headset.
Quarrantine the headset yourself for extra time.
Buy a decent wattage uv sterilizing light & run this over the whole package & contents several times.
Air sterilizers with uv light built in are good for killing any germs floating around but probably not necessary.
UV sounds good. Here a test with the original SARS virus: “Irradiation of UV for 60 min on the virus in culture medium resulted in the destruction of viral infectivity at an undetectable level.” Stability of SARS coronavirus in human specimens and environment and its sensitivity to heating and UV irradiation - PubMed
But imho the bests advise is to just don’t open the package for a few extra days if it is coming from a particularly critical region. All indications show that it cannot survive for more than a few days in the worst case (4-9).
Just having a joke but it is a serious matter.
I’m sure all nesescary measures will have already been taken by pimax & customs either side, before the headsets arrive, so i dont think anyone needs to worry.
