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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.279 [SLACK_000493] · slack_pm:msg:02906

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Date
2020-11-25 05:08
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
Masks, lockdowns and NPIsIntelligence community assessments

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Amateurs: 1. Amateur aerobiologists: saRESPIRATORYsv-CoV-2 is NOT airborne [just wash you hands, masks don't work]. 2. amateur epidemiologists: Don't worry about social distancing [just wash your hands]. 3. Amateur molecular biologists: PCR is sooooo easy, just ask the CDC. 4.amateur virologists: just wait it will go away in the summer. 5. amateur evolutionary biologists/detectives: look a unicorn (FCS), look a restriction enzyme site, look amutation (we are all going to die). 6. Amateur pulmonary doctors: treat/prevent with HQC. etc... where is Ed Yong onthis when you need him?

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Amateur aerobiologists: saRESPIRATORYsv-CoV-2 is NOT airborne [just wash you hands, masks don't work]. 2. amateur epidemiologists: Don't worry about social distancing [just wash your hands]. 3. own voice, substantive speaker_own asserts

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  1. 2020-11-25 05:08 Robert F. Garry
    Amateurs: 1. Amateur aerobiologists: saRESPIRATORYsv-CoV-2 is NOT airborne [just wash you hands, masks don't work]. 2. amateur epidemiologists: Don't worry about social distancing [just wash your hands]. 3. Amateur molecular biologists: PCR is sooooo easy, just ask the CDC. 4.amateur virologists: just wait it will go away in the summer. 5. amateur evolutionary biologists/detectives: look a unicorn (FCS), look a restriction enzyme site, look amutation (we are all going to die). 6. Amateur pulmonary doctors: treat/prevent with HQC. etc... where is Ed Yong onthis when you need him?
  2. 2020-11-25 05:12 Andrew Rambaut open
    Oli Pybus came up with a nice quote, which I paraphrase: "Virologists look at a mutation and assume it is adaptive,evolutionary biologists assume it isn't. Neither are right all the time"

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