Private channel session 1317
16 messages over 3h 32m, 2021-05-03 – 2021-05-03.
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Wade wrote to me at the same time - we discussed it on this channel. I gave him a few vague answers and then declined to reply. He's clearly a nasty old racist. Doubtless he has a book on the way. The claim that our paper ispolitical is obviously stupid. I wouldn't respond directly.
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I would have lost this bet: Melinda would dump Bill (or visa versa) before Melania dumped the Donald. https://www.geo.tv/latest/348600-bill-and-melinda-gates-confirm-divorce-say-they-will-end-their-marriage
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@Robert Garry It will be interesting to see the settlement
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@Robert Garry Yeah, what the hell - I'm really surprised about this, although Bill must be exceptionally tiring to bearound 24/7....
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@Robert Garry Apparently, Bill just wants to play on-line bridge 24-7.
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Z Division https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/exclusive-classified-study-found-covid-19-could-have-originated-in-chinese-lab.I'm guessing Z Division is where we brew up our current version of super-soldiers.
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Hah - "Z Divison". Love it. I like to think of us as being the "A Team" - much cooler, really.
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The intel community has no evidence whatsoever that remotely suggests that WIV had SC2 before the pandemic.
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Nope. None. And look at the title "Classified study found COVID-19 _could_ have originated in Chinese lab". Sure, itcould - however, likely didn't. Anything is possible - but in science we need actual data.
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Reminds me of a classic British TV show called 'Z Cars'. I hope the Z Division play the same iconic music at the startof each day (interesting factoid is that Everton FC in UK still play this tune when they run onto the pitch):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWflrCrwUSw
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Random thought. Weifeng identified 24 bat CoVs in 1100 hectare area. So, if people, such as the China CDC, have been sampling bats in Yunnan and other Chinese provinces then they must be detecting coronaviruses. That's a racing certainly. But there is no information in the public domain on what they have found. Hence, they mudt be sitting on data.
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I don't have a sense of how evenly distributed CoVs are, so it's likely that there are 'pockets' of very high density,while most pockets have none/little. That said, I'm sure there's more data to be shared....
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I'm 100% certain of it. I bet they have a shit load of data. Question is whether it will ever see the light of day.
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Well, if they have data now, what's to say they didn't have shit load of data prior to the pandemic...? Asking for a friend... :wink:
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No, they weren't looking then. The China CDC had no interest in this until after the pandemic started.
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Ah, I see what you're saying - yes, sampling has increased by _a lot_, I'm sure. Will be interesting to see what they find - probably a fuck ton of SARSr-CoVs so we have additional reason to be concerned....