Private channel session 610

2 messages over 4m, 2020-11-25 – 2020-11-25.

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.

1. 2020-11-25 05:08 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.279
   Amateurs: 1. Amateur aerobiologists: saRESPIRATORYsv-CoV-2 is NOT airborne [just wash you hands, masks don't work]. 2. amateur epidemiologists: Don't worry about social distancing [just wash your hands]. 3. Amateur molecular biologists: PCR is sooooo easy, just ask the CDC. 4.amateur virologists: just wait it will go away in the summer. 5. amateur evolutionary biologists/detectives: look a unicorn (FCS), look a restriction enzyme site, look amutation (we are all going to die). 6. Amateur pulmonary doctors: treat/prevent with HQC. etc... where is Ed Yong onthis when you need him?
2. 2020-11-25 05:12 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.279
   Oli Pybus came up with a nice quote, which I paraphrase: "Virologists look at a mutation and assume it is adaptive,evolutionary biologists assume it isn't. Neither are right all the time"