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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.896-897 · slack_pm:msg:09302

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

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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.

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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.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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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.

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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.
2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open

Totally! Notice that I did not destroy the file either.
2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hah, I *did* notice that... Shame on you :wink:
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...
2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen

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.
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.
2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open

But if you believe the tinfoils they knew about this is September and at least November
2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

That would have given them even longer to plant that virus in an animal at the market... :wink:
2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

I gotta say though - had I sequenced that RdRp and blasted that fragment, I would have lost my shit. Immediately.

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