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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.602 [SLACK_000816] · slack_pm:msg:06295

Page text: p.602 · original PDF

Date: 2021-03-17 06:48
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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The slide referencing PO1 is from one of the ~Vogons~ DRASTICs.

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2021-03-17 05:45 Andrew Rambaut open

The poetry is Vogon
2021-03-17 06:13 Robert F. Garry open

Love it! Haven't thought about Hitchhiker's Guide [Andrew you must be a fan] for a while. From the guide: "Here iswhat to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy.*Not actually evil*, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders - signed in triplicate, sent in,sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you." Only difference - some of the DRASTICs are actually Evil.
2021-03-17 06:23 Andrew Rambaut open

Big fan since the original BBC radio show (which is worth trying to find if it is available somewhere)
2021-03-17 06:46 Robert F. Garry open

I am starting to think that a variation on the "intermediate host" may be a good explanation for a lot of the data. The new MacLean2021 paper very important. Doubtless SC2 is very pantropic [generalist]. No need to evoke apermanent reservoir in the wild. Several animals {raccoon dogs] could act as a "vector" simply transferring SC2 tohumans from a bat in a one-off transfer. Animal-to-animal transfer of SC2 on Daszak's Animal Farms [another classic lit reference] or during transport to Wuhan could have resulted a couple of introductions into two Wet Marketsin Wuhan (One with lineage A and the Huanan Market getting lineage B. [shared file(s): image.png]
2021-03-17 06:48 Robert F. Garry

The slide referencing PO1 is from one of the ~Vogons~ DRASTICs.

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