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"just make their arguments seem daft" Excatly

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2021-02-06 08:35 Andrew Rambaut open

Exactly - that was my point 3.
2021-02-06 08:36 Andrew Rambaut open

But that is not the hypothesis they are proposing.
2021-02-06 08:42 Andrew Rambaut open

But in the end you are never actually trying to convince these people, just make their arguments seem daft.
2021-02-06 08:42 Kristian G. Andersen open

Do they have an actual hypothesis?
2021-02-06 08:43 Kristian G. Andersen

"just make their arguments seem daft" Excatly
2021-02-06 08:43 Kristian G. Andersen open

And when you break it down - all they have is the fact that this was detected in Wuhan. That's literally it.
2021-02-06 08:44 Andrew Rambaut open

Yes.
2021-02-06 08:44 Andrew Rambaut open

And that is why they are so anti any idea of a previous history of circulation or cases in Europe in November etc.
2021-02-06 09:31 Robert F. Garry open

Alina is still in love with her notion that the virus was "already well adapted to humans" when the first cases were detected based on dN/dS. Yet, we know the virus infects minks, ferrets, dogs, cats, lions, gorillas, rodents as well asit infects humans. Doug and the VoC that have followed show that SC2 and its RBD and FCS are still adapting to us.