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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.337 [SLACK_000551] · slack_pm:msg:03544

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Date
2020-12-21 16:17
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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Has anyone tried translating it out of frame? Perhaps it says "MADEINCHINA"?

In context

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  1. 2020-12-21 16:07 Edward C. Holmes open
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55364445
  2. 2020-12-21 16:13 Andrew Rambaut open
    We should offer to go do it.
  3. 2020-12-21 16:13 Kristian G. Andersen open
    YES - we can collect our fat checks at the same time!
  4. 2020-12-21 16:14 Kristian G. Andersen open
    One question I'd ask - "Since you faked RaTG13, why haven't you faked a closely related ancestral strain from a random intermediate host?"
  5. 2020-12-21 16:17 Andrew Rambaut
    Has anyone tried translating it out of frame? Perhaps it says "MADEINCHINA"?
  6. 2020-12-21 16:20 Edward C. Holmes open
    "FUNGFLUPATENTPENDING"
  7. 2020-12-21 16:20 Andrew Rambaut open
    ```Sars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into thepotent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.```Eh?
  8. 2020-12-21 16:21 Andrew Rambaut open
    5.1 million reads though
  9. 2020-12-21 16:49 Edward C. Holmes open
    Vince is loosing the plot: http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

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