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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.949 [SLACK_001163] · slack_pm:msg:09874

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Date
2021-06-19 16:22
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis

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He's not overthinking this - Chinese scientist deletes sequences - holy shit it's a cover-up - must be a lab leak.

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He's not overthinking this - Chinese scientist deletes sequences - holy shit it's a cover-up - must be a lab leak. own voice, substantive speaker_own asserts

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  1. 2021-06-19 16:10 Edward C. Holmes open
    Well, Jesse has gone full-on conspiracy. I can well imagine people deleting data because they were shit scared what the state would do to them. And he's right that China want to control the message on origins...they are particularly keen that it is not China.
  2. 2021-06-19 16:13 Andrew Rambaut open
    What does he think they were trying to cover up? That there was something that was one SNP closer to a bat virus that hadn't even been sequenced by then?
  3. 2021-06-19 16:13 Andrew Rambaut open
    Unless it was !!!
  4. 2021-06-19 16:18 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, and it would mean that someone did in China did some very detailed analysis very quickly and spotted this themselves. I can't see that they data deletion is specific to what the data actually says.
  5. 2021-06-19 16:22 Robert F. Garry
    He's not overthinking this - Chinese scientist deletes sequences - holy shit it's a cover-up - must be a lab leak.
  6. 2021-06-19 16:24 Robert F. Garry open
    that was the fox news - murdock version coming to a tv screen near you very soon...
  7. 2021-06-19 16:30 Edward C. Holmes open
    There's also news/rumours about China's top spy defecting to the US in Feb and providing info about a lab leak. I've just heard it on the radio. No idea what this actually means.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/18/rumours-swirl-chinas-top-spycatcher-has-defected-us/
  8. 2021-06-19 16:39 Robert F. Garry open
    If he's wearing a raccoon dog coat, I'm all ears!

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