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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.897 · slack_pm:msg:09307

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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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Right. You wouldn't be putting in a paper to Nature for all the fucking world to see.

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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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:
  4. 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.
  5. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes
    Right. You wouldn't be putting in a paper to Nature for all the fucking world to see.
  6. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Nope. And I remember you and I discussing that back then.
  7. 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....
  8. 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.
  9. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    This needs to completely rewritten IMO

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