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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.64 [SLACK_000278] · slack_pm:msg:00645

Date: 2020-06-08 20:27
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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I can't _*possibly*_ think of anything else that could explain an increase in wet wipes and toilet ducks - _obviously_ this must have been COVID. THERE JUST AREN'T ANY OTHER EXPLANATIONS WHATSOEVER. NONE! COVID! THEY LIED!John Brownstein - I just lost some respect for the guy.

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2020-06-08 20:24 Kristian G. Andersen open

_"Clearly, there was some level of social disruption taking place well before what was previously identified as the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic."_ Whatever that was, it wasn't COVID - we know this very specifically from the genetic data.
2020-06-08 20:25 Edward C. Holmes open

It's compelling. Apparently, there was also a 14% increase in the sale of wet wipes and toilet duck.
2020-06-08 20:25 Kristian G. Andersen open

Holy shit.
2020-06-08 20:26 Edward C. Holmes open

:rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
2020-06-08 20:27 Kristian G. Andersen

I can't _*possibly*_ think of anything else that could explain an increase in wet wipes and toilet ducks - _obviously_ this must have been COVID. THERE JUST AREN'T ANY OTHER EXPLANATIONS WHATSOEVER. NONE! COVID! THEY LIED!John Brownstein - I just lost some respect for the guy.
2020-06-08 20:42 Edward C. Holmes open

I was joking about the wet wipes and toilet duck. Still BS though.
2020-06-08 20:45 Edward C. Holmes open

If it had been there in August - causing lots of people to drive to hospitals - the docs would have been on it way before December.
2020-06-08 20:48 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yup - it's absurd. Plus, our TMRCA probably wouldn't have been mid-November to early-December.

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