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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.31 [SLACK_000245] · slack_pm:msg:00317

Date: 2020-05-22 04:43
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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Kristian - your best hope for that West Nile grant is to go on 60 minutes like Daszak. You know they want you. Another strategy might be to have a panic attack, claim you can't catch your breath and force your way onto a COVID ward. The sympathy you'll gather as a leading virologist [you turns out actually are] should push you over the top with NIH. Try to get as many negative COVID tests as you can and failing that just make up that you had abunch of negative tests thereby further undermining public confidence in the tests but increasing the sympathy factor (poor guy can't even get a positive test). Also let it slip to Laurie Garrett that you are also an Ebola and Lassa (maybe Sabia too for good measure) survivor. I'm pretty sure this will work.

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2020-05-22 04:43 Robert F. Garry

Kristian - your best hope for that West Nile grant is to go on 60 minutes like Daszak. You know they want you. Another strategy might be to have a panic attack, claim you can't catch your breath and force your way onto a COVID ward. The sympathy you'll gather as a leading virologist [you turns out actually are] should push you over the top with NIH. Try to get as many negative COVID tests as you can and failing that just make up that you had abunch of negative tests thereby further undermining public confidence in the tests but increasing the sympathy factor (poor guy can't even get a positive test). Also let it slip to Laurie Garrett that you are also an Ebola and Lassa (maybe Sabia too for good measure) survivor. I'm pretty sure this will work.
2020-05-22 04:48 Robert F. Garry open

Oh yeah and if you follow either of these strategies - esp the Fair one - I think the West Nile grant AND _*50K*_ will pretty much be a lock!

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