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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.897 · slack_pm:msg:09308

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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

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Nope. And I remember you and I discussing that back then.

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  1. 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
  2. 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:
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen
    Nope. And I remember you and I discussing that back then.
  6. 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....
  7. 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.
  8. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    This needs to completely rewritten IMO
  9. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    = replied - it's NOT from Shi. Damn! He got sent the RdRp and did it himself. Bum. Of some historical interest jough. The excitement did not last long....

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