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title: Private channel session 1671
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A slack conversation of 12 messages spanning 1h 13m.

# Metadata

- **Started:** 2021-12-15T13:06:09
- **Ended:** 2021-12-15T14:20:05
- **Duration:** 1h 13m
- **Participants:** 4
- **Source:** [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)
- **Pages:** 1039-1039

# Participants

* [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md)
* [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md)
* [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md)
* [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md)

# Transcript

**[2021-12-15T13:06:09] Kristian G. Andersen:** Oh, very interesting angle!

**[2021-12-15T13:07:03] Robert F. Garry:** Indeed - nice thoughts...

**[2021-12-15T13:50:43] Kristian G. Andersen:** This is a great little paper actually - of course, China will use this to say "see, not from China - Europe". Also, remember this? https://andersenlab.slack.com/archives/GTGL6LY5C/p1637771867038000 Well, some of those Euro Bats have "landing" sites too - you put those together with the Asia Bats, and you have afull FCS, including a nice landing pad.

**[2021-12-15T13:50:56] Kristian G. Andersen:** shared file(s): furin_aa_nov21.png, Screen Shot 2021-12-15 at 1.48.02 PM.png

**[2021-12-15T13:54:06] Edward C. Holmes:** Italian bats?

**[2021-12-15T13:54:28] Kristian G. Andersen:** Close enough.

**[2021-12-15T13:56:10] Andrew Rambaut:** Would seem some of these infect various species of dinosaur: [shared file(s): image.png]

**[2021-12-15T13:56:57] Kristian G. Andersen:** Ripe for v3.0 of the lab leak.

**[2021-12-15T13:57:04] Robert F. Garry:** So it wasn't the meteor after all but SARS-0

**[2021-12-15T14:00:15] Andrew Rambaut:** They were trying to resurrect a dinosaur and accidentally brought back their CoVs

**[2021-12-15T14:06:29] Edward C. Holmes:** It was George Church using his Epstein money

**[2021-12-15T14:20:05] Robert F. Garry:** BSL-0.00003 [shared file(s): Fred%27s_Laboratory.webp]