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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.896 · slack_pm:msg:09299

Page text: p.896 · original PDF

Date
2021-05-29 18:32 (hour precision)
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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Totally! Notice that I did not destroy the file either.

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  1. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    I've just emailed him. I agree though...it does look like a GenBank compilation.
  2. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    It's the hope that gets you.
  3. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    |_would_ love to know what happened after that tree was circulated though - image getting that hit, seeing how close 4991 is and then looking up the metadata [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-29 at 10.51.15 PM.png]
  4. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    After that realization, you have _got_ to ask yourself "did 4991 just escape from WIV". There's just no other way around it - would love to know what happened the days right after.
  5. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes
    Totally! Notice that I did not destroy the file either.
  6. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Hah, I *did* notice that... Shame on you :wink:
  7. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    So, let's wait for I'll now look at the main doc....I see the comments run for about 3 pages longer...
  8. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    SLACK_001111 Image seeing all of this though, freaking out about this having come from the lab, surely the next thing one would dowould go and 'plant' the virus in some random animal from the market. It had been shut down just a couple of days before.IfI had to cover up a lab leak, that's what I would do - not whatever the fuck is happening right now.
  9. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, let's see if has more to that document - I mean, it_must_ have been on the minds of smart people at the time, so I'd love to get some intel on that. There's just no way.

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