Private channel session 76

9 messages over 52m, 2020-05-22 – 2020-05-22.

A “conversation” here is an activity session — a run of messages with under 60 minutes of silence inside it. The channel had no native conversation boundaries.

2020-05-22 14:13 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.34

I got the same email as well. I never respond to these.
2020-05-22 14:16 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.34

Our communications department declined this one on my behalf and he wrote back saying "Oh, I know you're busy, but I only have a few short questions [paste everything in from Andrew's email]". Fuck off.
2020-05-22 14:20 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.34

Did you see Jon Cohen's piece in Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/house-was-fire-top-chinesevirologist-how-china-and-us-have-met-pandemic
2020-05-22 14:22 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.34

Some complete BS answers (they had the sequence by Dec 26/27) but interesting that he says there is a task force investigating the animal origins.
2020-05-22 14:31 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.34

I fully expect George Gao's team to come up with a paper describing a very closely related virus in species X in fairly near future. Let's just hope it's close enough to end debate and that they made all the raw read data available.
2020-05-22 14:34 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.34

Interesting... No, I did not read that - but will do. I really do hope a source will come up - would be so much easier and just end this shit show.
2020-05-22 14:37 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.34

Completely agree. I so want that to happen.
2020-05-22 15:02 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.34

It's obvious, but the only bits I'm really interested in are the RBD and the cleavage site of the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2. Yeah would be great. Hopefully not another - we have the 99+% virus cycle of build-up, promise, anticipation and - then most sadly deflation. WHO is supposedly putting a panel together to "investigate" the originsas well but I'd hope that the Chinese might have figured out a way to actually find something. I guess if I had toguess on species X I'd go with bat - pretty good bet.
2020-05-22 15:06 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.34

Bob, I'll take your bat and raise you a raccoon dog. Only because they are so weird. I still think there was an intermediate. I can't see how WHO will be able to do what China can't. It's also the obvious way for China to end all the conspiracy shit - find a believable natural origin and it's over. Let's watch this space.