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Date: 2020-09-27 06:28
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut
Topics: Vaccines

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But then there was this bit of the speech: > But even as we strive for a vaccine, we must never cut corners, slim down the trials or sacrifice safety to speed. Because it would be an absolute tragedy if in our eagerness, we were to boost the nutjobs - the anti vaxxers,dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and who would risk further millionsof lives.

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But then there was this bit of the speech: > But even as we strive for a vaccine, we must never cut corners, slim down the trials or sacrifice safety to speed.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	instructs
Because it would be an absolute tragedy if in our eagerness, we were to boost the nutjobs - the anti vaxxers,dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and who would risk further millionsof lives.	quoted / not their view	hypothetical conditional framing	asserts

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But then there was this bit of the speech: > But even as we strive for a vaccine, we must never cut corners, slim down the trials or sacrifice safety to speed.

own voice, substantive

speaker_own

instructs

Because it would be an absolute tragedy if in our eagerness, we were to boost the nutjobs - the anti vaxxers,dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and who would risk further millionsof lives.

quoted / not their view

hypothetical conditional framing

asserts

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2020-09-27 06:07 Robert F. Garry open

Meanwhile Gentlemen we stand at the brink of a new milestone - 5M accesses. In short: it made a difference. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 • Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes & Robert F. Garry _Nature Medicine_ *volume 26*, pages 450-452(2020)Cite this article • *4.99m Accesses* • *483 Citations* • *34855 Altmetric* • Metrics
2020-09-27 06:17 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8773985/Britain-plans-withhold-cash-finds-coronavirus-came-from.html Boris gets into the act to help his pal Donald.
2020-09-27 06:28 Andrew Rambaut

But then there was this bit of the speech: > But even as we strive for a vaccine, we must never cut corners, slim down the trials or sacrifice safety to speed. Because it would be an absolute tragedy if in our eagerness, we were to boost the nutjobs - the anti vaxxers,dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and who would risk further millionsof lives.
2020-09-27 06:28 Andrew Rambaut open

Probably the first time 'nutjobs' has been used in a speech to the UNGA.
2020-09-27 06:30 Andrew Rambaut open

But then there was this bit: > Our first aim should be to stop a new disease before it starts. About 60 percent of the pathogens circulating inthe human population originated in animals and leapt from one species to the other in a "zoonotic" transmission. The world could seek to minimise the danger by forging a global network of zoonotic research hubs, charged withspotting dangerous animal pathogens that may cross the species barrier and infect human beings.Which I imagine is the whole Cameron/Illumina/GVP thing
2020-09-27 06:38 Robert F. Garry open

For sure Trump stands head and shoulders above Boris on the nutjob scale. Setting up "zoonotic research hubs" would be vastly superior to GVP if done correctly. GVP is just a money grab.
2020-09-27 06:45 Robert F. Garry open

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/World-needs-to-know-origins-of-COVID-19-Australia-PM-tells-UN

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