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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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:
5. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen
   I gotta say though - had I sequenced that RdRp and blasted that fragment, I would have lost my shit. Immediately.
6. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
   Right. You wouldn't be putting in a paper to Nature for all the fucking world to see.
7. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Nope. And I remember you and I discussing that back then.
8. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
   And virus X could not really any closer to SARS-CoV-2 than that on an RdRp tree....
9. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
   The letter is FAR too complex. The false equivalence angle does not work at all for me.

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