Slack / Private Message Drop — page 284

SLACK_000498 [Eddie Holmes] Yes, very interesting. I never knew there was a call. [Eddie Holmes] This is a corker: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3724275 [Andrew Rambaut] Utter shit. I like how the top journals have preprint services now so you can see where the authors have submitted to. [Andrew Rambaut] Based on the call I had with WHO (and I believe this preprint was part of what instigated that) I had started to get together some data to do a rebuttal. But this is way worse than I imagined. It is just waffle. [Andrew Rambaut] Will be interest to see how hard this is pushed into the media - i.e. is it government sponsored. [Eddie Holmes] It may not be government sponsored, but the government will be delighted and I assume it's all over their state media. I'll see what has to say. [Andrew Rambaut] They certainly seem to be offering it to the WHO's 'origins investigation committee'. [Eddie Holmes] Mad shit. [Robert Garry] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/29/a-year-after-wuhan-alarm-china-seeks-to-change-covid-origin-stor y?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other [Robert Garry] Guardian article is OK Andrew's right: "Will be interest to see how hard this is pushed into the media - i.e. is it government sponsored." It willalso be interesting to see how Trump supported media (Fox, Newsmax, OAN) handle this. [Andrew Rambaut] Yes - I saw the Guardian article. It is good that they make it clear that this is a political angle and doesn't come from the science. [Robert Garry] Agree - The whole notion of precirculation is of course something we offered up in PO1 - who knew that would be subverted to Italy and India [or maybe other countries beginning in I]. Perhaps another paragraph or two for PO2?