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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.497 [SLACK_000711] · slack_pm:msg:05191

Date: 2021-02-07 23:46
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Intelligence community assessments

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There's definitely something going on re: the market but I can't quite think what. Could just be a direct link or justtying-up loose ends before eliminating it. Daszak says he was going to use the photos for species identification. This leads me to think that the officials must have denied that the species I photographed were ever in the market but that my crappy photos prove otherwise. I also wonder if those 'environmental samples' are actually more informative that we think.

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This leads me to think that the officials must have denied that the species I photographed were ever in the market but that my crappy photos prove otherwise.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external attribution frame: 'Daszak says'	denies

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This leads me to think that the officials must have denied that the species I photographed were ever in the market but that my crappy photos prove otherwise.

quoted / not their view

quoted_external attribution frame: 'Daszak says'

denies

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2021-02-07 23:11 Edward C. Holmes open

Just got this from Dominic in Wuhan - "Real argy bargy here in Wuhan. The head Chinese guy just said that your photos of the Huanan market might have been synthesised!". WTFuck is going on?? Perhaps they denying they even had mammals there? Weird.
2021-02-07 23:37 Andrew Rambaut open

Does that suggest the WHO group are suggesting a direct role for the market?
2021-02-07 23:46 Edward C. Holmes

There's definitely something going on re: the market but I can't quite think what. Could just be a direct link or justtying-up loose ends before eliminating it. Daszak says he was going to use the photos for species identification. This leads me to think that the officials must have denied that the species I photographed were ever in the market but that my crappy photos prove otherwise. I also wonder if those 'environmental samples' are actually more informative that we think.
2021-02-07 23:47 Edward C. Holmes open

I seem to be the Forrest Gump of COVID.
2021-02-07 23:49 Andrew Rambaut open

One thing there is copious evidence for is that you are not working for the CCP -
2021-02-07 23:56 Edward C. Holmes open

True. I ain't going back to China.
2021-02-07 23:59 Andrew Rambaut open

Didn't you get the nice invite from Cara at the "North American Foundation for Science and Technology"?

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