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[2020-11-09 15:27:19] [Eddie Holmes] A bit disappointing that no one has used the phrase 'butt lesion' yet. [2020-11-09 15:39:19] [Kristian Andersen] Leak the phrase "butt lesion" to Grubaugh and I'm sure he'll happily use it :wink:. Vince is such an idiot - he's got an extremely limited understanding of viral spread, epi, phylogenetics, genetics, etc, etc. I'm actually not sure if there's _anything_ he's particularly good at. Maybe something about a specific viral protein. [2020-11-09 15:42:26] [Eddie Holmes] Burn. [2020-11-10 06:38:35] [Robert Garry] VR deleted the tweet but here it is in a screenshot. [shared file(s): image.png] [2020-11-10 12:20:27] [Eddie Holmes] I think Vince's tweet can be clearly termed an own goal. [2020-11-11 22:11:23] [Eddie Holmes] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03165-9 [2020-11-11 22:12:51] [Eddie Holmes] Do you know WHO might be on this panel? [2020-11-12 05:04:30] [Robert Garry] No clue Eddie. I guess we know some names not on the list (us, LInfa Wang). Rather strange in more ways than one. Why not list the names? This Nature news piece is notable as a collection of hunches. Ex: My bias has been that humans infected the minks and cats, not visa versa. [2020-11-12 11:53:47] [Eddie Holmes] Weird. I suspect it may be largely WHO 'insiders'. There are some mistakes in the article as well...misnamed animals. [2020-11-12 13:45:01] [Robert Garry] Probably the same WHO 'insiders' who insisted for months that SARS-CoV-2 was mostly spread by fomites [just wash your hands and use a pencil to touch elevator buttons], was NOT airborne, forgot to advise about social distancing/isolating cases and discouraged mask use. [2020-11-12 20:21:41] [Eddie Holmes] Indeed. There was an Australian flag when Tedros announced the team composition, but that's obviously not me. I think it might be Kanta Subbarao who's a WHO flu person. But's clearly not an origins expert. [2020-11-13 06:11:25] [Andrew Rambaut]