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1. 2020-09-17 14:21 Edward C. Holmes open
   All reads from Tommy's paper are on the SRA. The Guangdong ones are P1L and P2S. P2S is from the scales and at a bit patchy. All explained in the paper.
2. 2020-09-17 14:36 Edward C. Holmes open
   What *really* pisses me off is that everything is explained very carefully in Tommy's paper - the provenance of the sequences, how they were sequenced and analysed - and ALL the data is publicly available on GISAID/SRA. Asclean as it gets - take a look. But fucking Alina has managed to sow doubt by linking it to those dodgy pangolin papers.
3. 2020-09-17 14:38 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Yeah, I totally agree Tommy's paper is very clear on this - the issue is that the other paper definitely isn't. But that doesn't take away the fact that Tommy's study is clean. Typical conspiracy way of dealing with inconvenient data.
4. 2020-09-17 14:39 Edward C. Holmes open
   Agreed. So fucking annoying.
5. 2020-09-17 14:39 Kristian G. Andersen
   The collective insanity is starting to get to me...
6. 2020-09-17 14:44 Edward C. Holmes open
   I hear you. Just as long as the journal editors keep sane. On that subject the following..."Are mouse and cat the missing link in the COVID-19 outbreaks in seafood markets?"...has just come up on bioRxiv. No real data ofcourse...
7. 2020-09-17 15:03 Kristian G. Andersen open
   I can guarantee you that mice played no role in this - the virus can't infect rodents.... Cats? Weeeeeelllll
8. 2020-09-17 15:07 Edward C. Holmes open
   Cats are indeed evil.
9. 2020-09-17 15:13 Robert F. Garry open
   Excellent gentlemen - The Inspector really should just do a complete mea culpa and get on with her career.

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