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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.827 [SLACK_001041] · slack_pm:msg:08629

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Date
2021-05-17 17:11
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen

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This quote from Joel is :fire: "But not having answers to difficult scientific questions shouldn't force us to default to conspiracy theories," he said."It took scientists decades of research to find the chimpanzee host populations for the HIV/AIDS pandemic."

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  1. 2021-05-17 16:29 Robert F. Garry open
    Yeah - he may be having a second thought or two about signing on to that really really dumb letter.
  2. 2021-05-17 16:45 Edward C. Holmes open
    A letter which proposes his collaborators have lied.
  3. 2021-05-17 16:49 Kristian G. Andersen open
    From the PolitiFact article: "Furthermore, the first cases of the coronavirus occurred in September when cold temperatures drive horseshoe bats into hibernation" Eh, no, actually, November the likely month (December confirmed). And let's not forget - when were the first casesof SARS discovered? That's right, November.
  4. 2021-05-17 16:52 Edward C. Holmes open
    Plus why did it come directly from bats?
  5. 2021-05-17 17:11 Kristian G. Andersen
    This quote from Joel is :fire: "But not having answers to difficult scientific questions shouldn't force us to default to conspiracy theories," he said."It took scientists decades of research to find the chimpanzee host populations for the HIV/AIDS pandemic."
  6. 2021-05-17 17:12 Kristian G. Andersen open
    That's exactly right. We should probably involve him in this little project too - they have been looking pretty carefullyat the early events and I know he's been doing some studies to show that there are no signs of culture adaptation.
  7. 2021-05-17 17:27 Edward C. Holmes open
    This from Alice. She's a bat ecologist who actually lives and works in Yunnan: "In Mid-Northern Yunnan Rhinolophids hibernate, down in the tropics we have not found hibernacula, but the numbers we capture go right down so they are either using different areas or inaccessible hibernacula-there is always some activity though, so atleast some individuals in South Yunnan never hibernate, some may-but only for a very short period."
  8. 2021-05-17 17:31 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Do they migrate at all or move around for any of these events? I'm wondering if there's some sort of connection between the winter months and the virus getting into contact with intermediate hosts. HKU-1 also happened in the winter - probably January.
  9. 2021-05-17 17:36 Edward C. Holmes open
    I'll check.

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