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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.608 [SLACK_000822] · slack_pm:msg:06359

Date: 2021-03-20 07:31
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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Great reference to the Rolling Stones - Jagger clearly has his own demons but unlike some of the others [Alina, Yuri, Covidfaker] discussed herein is a true genus.

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2021-03-20 06:51 Robert F. Garry open

@Robert Garry Reminds me of Covidfaker. After his episode in the COVID spotlight and subsequent termination by NBC he spent the next year doing this: [shared file(s): image.png]
2021-03-20 06:52 Robert F. Garry open

@Robert Garry You might ask about the feathers - it's not a permanent boa.
2021-03-20 06:56 Robert F. Garry open

@Robert Garry It's St Michael the Archangel on his back protecting Covidfaker from Satan. Wiki: *Michael* leads God's armies against Satan's forces in the Book of Revelation, where during the war in heaven he defeats Satan.
2021-03-20 07:10 Robert F. Garry open

@Robert Garry Can't make this stuff up.
2021-03-20 07:31 Robert F. Garry

Great reference to the Rolling Stones - Jagger clearly has his own demons but unlike some of the others [Alina, Yuri, Covidfaker] discussed herein is a true genus.
2021-03-20 07:33 Robert F. Garry open

I am hoping Jessie dives in and comes to his senses. Alina is too far gone.
2021-03-20 08:32 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5008?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&a mp;rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&"the real-world studies that detect viral RNA in the environment report very low levels, and few have isolated viable virus." In anticipation of the WHO report - which is likely to have a section about smoking racoon dogs - i think it's key. The most likely explanation for the high levels of virus on the grates under the animal cages is that the animals were infected. They were ab`le to grow virus out of 2 of the environmental samples.
2021-03-20 08:50 Robert F. Garry open

well done @Eddie Holmes https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/19/979314118/next-pandemic-scien tists-fear-another-coronavirus-could-jump-from-animals-to-hum
2021-03-20 08:59 Andrew Rambaut open

You can see why people want it to be a lab leak - this is much more scary.

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