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Date
2021-04-24 05:32
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesisWuhan Institute of Virology collaboration

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Yes indeed - VirScan data would be valuable too. We're seeing high levels of exposure to sarbeco and merbecovirus in Sierra Leoneans by serology (including neutralization)- not sure where this will lead us. Your journois on to something for sure - Daszak said wildlife farms were $70 billion industry and I believe him - equivalent to the American cattle industry. It would surprise me if wildlife trade of that magnitude just got wiped out in one fell swoop.Doesn't seem like they actually stopped selling civets after SARS1, but I dunno. Lab leak idiots pushing their nonsense is total BS. DRASTIC actually should be DISTRACT, because that is precisely what they are doing. Weneed a worldwide investigation of wildlife trade and wild coronaviruses, not some bs "forensic" investigation of WIV.

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  1. 2021-04-24 05:32 Robert F. Garry
    Yes indeed - VirScan data would be valuable too. We're seeing high levels of exposure to sarbeco and merbecovirus in Sierra Leoneans by serology (including neutralization)- not sure where this will lead us. Your journois on to something for sure - Daszak said wildlife farms were $70 billion industry and I believe him - equivalent to the American cattle industry. It would surprise me if wildlife trade of that magnitude just got wiped out in one fell swoop.Doesn't seem like they actually stopped selling civets after SARS1, but I dunno. Lab leak idiots pushing their nonsense is total BS. DRASTIC actually should be DISTRACT, because that is precisely what they are doing. Weneed a worldwide investigation of wildlife trade and wild coronaviruses, not some bs "forensic" investigation of WIV.

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