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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.5 · slack_pm:msg:00034

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Date: 2020-05-01 14:23 (hour precision)
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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2020-05-01 14:06 Kristian G. Andersen open

That would be something Ralph would do
2020-05-01 14:23 Robert F. Garry open

SLACK_000219 AS for the Wash Post - Good job Eddie and Kristian - watched the video - will likely keep the lab escape hypothesisalive for longer - 50K
2020-05-01 14:23 Kristian G. Andersen open

There's a video?
2020-05-01 14:23 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/01/was-new-coronavirus-accidentally-released-wuhan-lab-its-dou btful/
2020-05-01 14:23 Robert F. Garry

Yes
2020-05-01 14:23 Robert F. Garry open

Rasmussan, Daszak several others I don't recognize.
2020-05-01 14:23 Edward C. Holmes open

I've never emailed the Washington Post. That must come from an email that I sent to my press officer who then forwarded to them. I need to correct the I story. Nonsense.
2020-05-01 14:23 Kristian G. Andersen open

I don't remember talking to these journalists either...
2020-05-01 14:23 Kristian G. Andersen open

The video is pretty fucking terrible. Ending on "how unusual/remarkable is it that there's a lab working on bat coronaviruses exactly where an outbreak of a coronavirus started"? How dumb are people exactly? Good old correlation, not causation. May I suggest an alternative explanation - they're studying bat coronaviruses BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF BAT CORONAVIRUSES AROUND THERE. Which, I don't know, in combination with wet markets and the like might increase the risk of an outbreak from a bat coronaviruses.We need an actual razor in Occam's razor.

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