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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.958 [SLACK_001172] · slack_pm:msg:09971

Date: 2021-06-21 18:09
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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USAMRIID were developing the bioweapon and testing on prisoners at Guantanamo. Castro found out and wanted to know what it was. He got hold a sample and gave it to his mate Maradona to give to an Italian lab to be discretelytested. Their sloppy lab protocols allowed it to escape into Rome. Unfortunately, Maradona also took a sniff of thevial and died. Patient zero - 25th November 2020. If we had his sequence it would be another snp closer to RaTG13.Maradona's shirt number was 10, which only 3 away from the 13 in RaTG13. It all fits, apart from the Wuhan wet market.

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2021-06-21 17:38 Edward C. Holmes open

Diego was a good mate of Castro!
2021-06-21 17:38 Kristian G. Andersen open

I mean - what are the chances? Maradona 100% the best player of all times, so clearly there's a connection here.
2021-06-21 17:40 Edward C. Holmes open

@Kristian Andersen Yes, that's all I wanted. Perfect.
2021-06-21 17:57 Robert F. Garry open

:exploding_head:
2021-06-21 18:09 Edward C. Holmes

USAMRIID were developing the bioweapon and testing on prisoners at Guantanamo. Castro found out and wanted to know what it was. He got hold a sample and gave it to his mate Maradona to give to an Italian lab to be discretelytested. Their sloppy lab protocols allowed it to escape into Rome. Unfortunately, Maradona also took a sniff of thevial and died. Patient zero - 25th November 2020. If we had his sequence it would be another snp closer to RaTG13.Maradona's shirt number was 10, which only 3 away from the 13 in RaTG13. It all fits, apart from the Wuhan wet market.
2021-06-21 18:40 Kristian G. Andersen open

You might want to email that to Metzl - I suspect he might want to replace his current history of events that took place.

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