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http://www.bat-kharkov.in.ua/en/bat-collider-en/ [2020-10-30 02:07:45] [Eddie Holmes] You learn something new every day. He's right though - we did not consider a bat ecopark in the Ukraine. There's something for Proximal Origins II. [2020-10-30 02:16:05] [Eddie Holmes] Actually, Kharkiv looks like an emergence accident waiting to happen. I'll tip-off PREDICT: http://www.bat-kharkov.in.ua/en/rescue-100-bats-in-kharkiv-en/ [2020-10-30 09:16:43] [Andrew Rambaut] 'Country full of bats and scientists' [shared file(s): image.png] [2020-10-30 09:17:47] [Andrew Rambaut] I blocked him because of the comment about Rothschilds - [shared file(s): image.png] [2020-10-30 09:19:07] [Andrew Rambaut] Russian operative? Really grasping at straws if they think they are going to get any traction on the 'origin in Ukraine' idea. [2020-10-30 09:20:21] [Andrew Rambaut] "if Rambaut has no Ukraine sequences he has nothing" [2020-10-30 09:20:34] [Andrew Rambaut] It's true [2020-10-30 09:20:40] [Kristian Andersen] Haha, the internet truly is bonkers. Credit to him for making a testable hypothesis. Separately, I have heard the Bat ICUs are once again at capacity - I guess he didn't know _that_. [2020-10-30 11:42:52] [Kristian Andersen] This is a pretty bonkers preprint, however, some of the points are actually pretty interesting (although I can't possibly assess the validity): https://zenodo.org/record/4119263#.X5xXlnlKg2w [2020-10-30 11:44:17] [Kristian Andersen] The ENA recording dates in early December are correct - and that is actually a little weird. @Eddie Holmes - do you have any idea when BGI might first have sequenced anything from a really early suspected case? The spread a long Line 2 - while I can't possibly confirm any of that - is also not totally bonkers. [2020-10-30 11:47:13] [Kristian Andersen] The guy emailed me (probably all of us?) back in May. Mostly bonkers stuff, but not completely. [shared file(s): SARS-CoV-2 origin]