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[2020-10-12 15:27:40] [Robert Garry] The only virtue to the article is that it gathers a fraction of the garbage in the same bag. Looks like Alina is at least friendly with the Xander/BillyB/DRASTIC krewe. [2020-10-12 15:33:22] [Eddie Holmes] Yes! Like that cohort of villains in the Lego Batman movie. [2020-10-12 15:39:35] [Robert Garry] Yes indeed - except the Batman villains have an overall higher level of competence. [2020-10-14 11:17:00] [Robert Garry] Some decent reporting on the Grand Barrington nonsense: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/herd-immunity-bhattacharya-atlas-barrington [2020-10-14 13:27:42] [Eddie Holmes] Thanks for the link. Alas, governments seem to be using it to justify their crappy public health policies. [2020-10-15 10:53:49] [Kristian Andersen] Did anything happen while I was gone? No? Okay, good. [2020-10-15 13:23:48] [Eddie Holmes] All good. At ease. [2020-10-15 21:35:25] [Kristian Andersen] Ohhh, lookie - Gnews made a profile of me - how nice of them: https://gnews.org/zh-hans/425231/ [2020-10-15 21:37:31] [Kristian Andersen] Separately - @Andrew Rambaut, do you happen to have a good visual/tree showing that we can find identical SARS2 genomes across multiple countries across different time? Giving a talk to the CDC folks on Monday and wanting to make the point that any type of phylogenetic inference is bloody hard with this thing. [2020-10-15 22:59:18] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2020-10-15 22:59:18] Here is a figure that Áine made a while back. Shows the separation in days for the sampling date between identical sequences on polytomies. [shared file(s): polytomies.png] [2020-10-15 22:59:45] [Andrew Rambaut] Need to update it [2020-10-15 23:00:30] [Andrew Rambaut] But will probably do what you need. credit: Áine O'Toole, University of Edinburgh