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[2020-08-21 16:57:20] [Kristian Andersen] Oh boy - I'll be presenting at AGBT with the other two presenters being Jemma and Oli. I'll clearly be responsible for Amateur Hour, so please send time-appropriate jokes my way so I can keep the audience entertained... :zany_face: [2020-08-21 17:17:29] [Eddie Holmes] Ask Oli if his work is just a lame copy of Trevor Bedford's. [2020-08-21 18:15:58] [Kristian Andersen] Great idea! That'll get him fired up! :fire: [2020-08-22 09:10:24] [Andrew Rambaut] Frankie Bollocks: https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1296911184545943554 Can't see this going well... [2020-08-22 09:49:30] [Kristian Andersen] OMFG - he actually went there? Completely lost his marbles . [2020-08-22 09:50:29] [Kristian Andersen] I have been seeing several of his "school" threads that have been thoroughly unhelpful - but comparing to traffic deaths (which so many nutters have done - mostly on Fox News) truly is a new low for him. [2020-08-22 09:57:39] [Kristian Andersen] I really don't understand his analogy either - I mean, we have things like seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, and autonomous braking invented - is he saying we should go back to a 1950s car with COVID? Just pretend it isn't there? It's worked really well for the US. [2020-08-22 10:22:41] [Andrew Rambaut] Exactly - it is a bad analogy in so many ways. Huge investment in road safety to the point where it is very small in UK. [2020-08-22 10:23:31] [Andrew Rambaut] But that of course isn't the point because one traffic accident doesn't cause 4 more a few days later. [2020-08-22 10:25:06] [Kristian Andersen] So strange. I guess he's happy he's finally found the spotlight - he tries really hard to be a good scientist, but he just isn't... I really wish he'd go back to just being insignificant though - this is dangerous shit (and yeah - car accidents don't have an R0 of 2.5). [2020-08-22 16:11:51] [Eddie Holmes] Mental. Did you see his latest big tree Tweet as well? Says there was no evidence for lab passage etc. I agree, but you can't infer that from a dirty great circular tree.