COVID-19 Records

Private channel session 807

2 messages over 13m, 2021-01-15 – 2021-01-15.

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. 2021-01-15 06:27 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.401
    Me to! Umlaut, also known as diaeresis, i-umlaut or - wait for it - i-mutation, is a mark that consists of two dots ( ̈)placed over a letter, usually a vowel, to indicate a different quality. Only one word I believe in Webster's American English [I know other English out there] that still allows the use of the mark as a variant: *naïveté.* Ironically, the root *naïve* is a French adjective meaning "natural, just born" just like SARS-CoV-2.
  2. 2021-01-15 06:40 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.402
    Use *naïveté* in a sentence: It is the height of *naïveté* to claim that one can infer the evolutionary origins of the RmYN02 S1/S2 cleavage site by performing a simple nucleotide alignment as advanced by some proponents of the lab origin hypothesis [1]. 1. The genetic structure of SARSnCoVn2 does not rule out a laboratory originSARSnCOVn2 chimeric structure and furin cleavage site might be the result of genetic manipulationRossana Segreto Yuri Deigin