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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.497 [SLACK_000711] · slack_pm:msg:05192

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Date
2021-02-07 23:47
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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I seem to be the Forrest Gump of COVID.

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  1. 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.
  2. 2021-02-07 23:37 Andrew Rambaut open
    Does that suggest the WHO group are suggesting a direct role for the market?
  3. 2021-02-07 23:46 Edward C. Holmes open
    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.
  4. 2021-02-07 23:47 Edward C. Holmes
    I seem to be the Forrest Gump of COVID.
  5. 2021-02-07 23:49 Andrew Rambaut open
    One thing there is copious evidence for is that you are not working for the CCP -
  6. 2021-02-07 23:56 Edward C. Holmes open
    True. I ain't going back to China.
  7. 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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