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@Kristian Andersen Not sure why India cases peaked and dropped though. Do they have lock downs and NPIs?
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@Kristian Andersen Lots of seeds planted for growth: [shared file(s): image.png]
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@Kristian Andersen I'm not sure exactly what they did officially, but people freak out and that effectively is a lock down - plus, of course, localized 'herd' immunity (likely won't last more than 6-9 months).My concern around the vaccine in particular, is that while we have updated shots ready to go into production, but they're all based and B.1.351 and B.1.617.2 is a very different variant. As this continues in years to come, unless wemanage to somehow gain control over transmission, this is going to be a game of whack a mole that we can't win. It's concerning - and people don't get it since they're so done with this pandemic (which I get. Oh boy, do Iunderstand that...)
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I knew that when the first subheading was titled "A Group Called DRASTIC", it was going to be bad. But this - inVanity Fair - is just outright criminal. If I was Peter, I would sue immediately. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-06-03at 8.08.08 AM.png]
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2021-06-03 08:10
Kristian G. Andersen
Andrew, totally agree on your first paragraph / outline - I'll work on it tonight. We might need to create a new document...
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@Kristian Andersen Libel: a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.
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@Kristian Andersen Yeah - this is that.
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@Kristian Andersen Oh, just a bit.
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As for our opening paragraph, I was playing around with the "capture-release" vs "lab leak" stuff yesterday, making some FAQs to respond to the stuff around Tony's emails. What I think is key here - and maybe we could specifically mention it - is that a "lab leak" is insufficient in itself to explain the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. A scientific theory ofSARS-CoV-2 emergence needs to be able to account for _all_ facts surrounding the origin - the "lab leak" only provides a very small part of that, not being able to explain everything prior to the leak or the fact that this got goingin a wet market. I'll see if I can incorporate a single sentence to that effect as I go through - the beauty here is that "natural emergence" explains everything.