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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.641 [SLACK_000855] · slack_pm:msg:06721

Date: 2021-03-26 15:59
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration

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https://www.newsweek.com/humans-not-animals-likely-took-covid-virus-wuhan-contrary-chinas-claims-1578861 "The science is also bad because it isn't based on any on-the-ground evidence. There were many cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan before the market outbreak. In addition, the only live animals in the market seem to have been*snakes, turtles, and frogs*, none of whom are potential carriers, and they all tested negative. Peter Daszak himself has admitted that all of the carcasses examined tested negative for SARS-CoV-2. Yes, you read that right: the theory is based on the fact that they didn't find any infected animals in Wuhan.In any case, the director of China's Center for Disease Control dismissed the market theory last May, explaining that there was no connection and that the virus "existed long before" it was found in the market, which makes it *rather extraordinary that the WHO team chose to spend its limited time poking around the empty building (which had been closed, cleared and disinfected more than a year ago*)."

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2021-03-26 15:45 Edward C. Holmes open

Yes, my photo from the market.
2021-03-26 15:46 Edward C. Holmes open

So, not just one animal in a cage on the floor.
2021-03-26 15:49 Robert F. Garry open

Here's the photo from your CNN report - unverified footage they say but sure looks like the same animal species. [shared file(s): image.png]
2021-03-26 15:51 Edward C. Holmes open

So, they've been selling these animals there for years. An accident waiting to happen.
2021-03-26 15:59 Robert F. Garry

https://www.newsweek.com/humans-not-animals-likely-took-covid-virus-wuhan-contrary-chinas-claims-1578861 "The science is also bad because it isn't based on any on-the-ground evidence. There were many cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan before the market outbreak. In addition, the only live animals in the market seem to have been*snakes, turtles, and frogs*, none of whom are potential carriers, and they all tested negative. Peter Daszak himself has admitted that all of the carcasses examined tested negative for SARS-CoV-2. Yes, you read that right: the theory is based on the fact that they didn't find any infected animals in Wuhan.In any case, the director of China's Center for Disease Control dismissed the market theory last May, explaining that there was no connection and that the virus "existed long before" it was found in the market, which makes it *rather extraordinary that the WHO team chose to spend its limited time poking around the empty building (which had been closed, cleared and disinfected more than a year ago*)."
2021-03-26 16:01 Robert F. Garry open

SAme Rowan Jacobson who wrote the Alina Chan crap for Boston Magazine, Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab? The world's preeminent scientists say a theory from the Broad Institute's Alina Chan is too wild to be believed. But when the theory is about the possibility of COVID being man-made, is this science or censorship?
2021-03-26 16:03 Robert F. Garry open

Maybe he'll correct his Newsweek article when Eddie's pics see the daylight.
2021-03-26 16:04 Edward C. Holmes open

That is one shit and very biased article! And then I noticed it was Rowan...I've had to block him. Useless.
2021-03-26 16:16 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-health-organization-covid-team-wuhan-china-coronavirus-origin-starts-work/" Finally, during the WHO's mission to China, Daszak said the team found new evidence that these farms were supplying vendors at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, where an early outbreak of COVID-19 occurred. The market was shut down overnight on Dec. 31, 2019, after it was linked to cases of what was then described as amysterious pneumonia-like illness. "There was massive transmission going on at that market for sure," says Linfa Wang, a virologist who studies bat viruses at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. He's also part of the WHO investigative team. Wang says that after the outbreak at the Huanan market, Chinese scientists went there and looked for the virus."In the live animal section, they had many positive samples," Wang says. "They even have two samples from which they could isolate live virus."

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