COVID-19 Records

Private channel session 629

12 messages over 1h 15m, 2020-11-30 – 2020-11-30.

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. 2020-11-30 17:52 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.286
    One thing is certain - this keeps the whole CCP cover-up on the front burner.
  2. 2020-11-30 18:24 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.286
    Still reading through it, but I find sentences like this hilarious: "[...] reveal what appears to be an inflexible health care system constrained by top-down bureaucracy and rigid procedures that were ill-equipped to deal with the emergingcrisis. At several critical moments in the early phase of the pandemic, the documents show evidence of clearmissteps and point to a pattern of institutional failings."So, are we talking about China in January 2020? Or are we talking the United States January, 2020 through December, 2020? I'm confused...
  3. 2020-11-30 18:34 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.286
    Ha, yes, applies equally. Perhaps China will use that line?
  4. 2020-11-30 18:43 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.286
    They might want to tweak it a little to make it even stronger.
  5. 2020-11-30 18:50 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.286
    They are really having a go at Australia at the moment. Soft target and really stupid. They are losing the plot a bit.
  6. 2020-11-30 18:51 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.286
    Well, Aussies are easy targets because they can take the heat - "Fuck it you nitwit - heading to the beach and then it's out for a pint with me mates"
  7. 2020-11-30 18:53 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.286
    We fucking can! It's been in the 40s here. And here's a bit of fun about that rubella paper published in Nature the other week...we just sequenced some more fish including an electric ray. Sorry the tree is shit but we just did it. And the rooting in that paper is wrong. [shared file(s): rubella.trimmed.fasta.tree.png]
  8. 2020-11-30 19:02 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.286
    Wait, are you telling me that that paper I rejected for Nature but that Nature decided to go ahead with anyway might have rooted their tree incorrectly? I did tell them to be careful with their conclusions...
  9. 2020-11-30 19:04 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.286
    I'm telling you exactly that. Pretty crazy that the ray falls between the bat and the other mammalian samples.
  10. 2020-11-30 19:05 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.287
    Complete RdRp
  11. 2020-11-30 19:06 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.287
    I don't understand evolution - it's so weird...
  12. 2020-11-30 19:07 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.287
    Must be a bat-eating ray. Fuck knows.