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Gotta love the graphical abstract! [2020-12-10 07:19:41] [Kristian Andersen] Any fur farming around there? [2020-12-10 07:25:45] [Andrew Rambaut] This is not going well... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/10/decomposing-mink-in-denmark-may-have-contaminated-groundwa ter [2020-12-10 07:26:40] [Andrew Rambaut] The response to seeing 12 patients with 4 spike mutations perhaps was a bit rash... [2020-12-10 07:27:04] [Andrew Rambaut] And that is a pretty grim picture [2020-12-10 07:43:53] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, they really didn't handle that well... That said, the culling was absolutely the right thing to do IMO. [2020-12-10 07:46:11] [Andrew Rambaut] I do agree. But using the 'scary' spike mutation as a reason was not good. [2020-12-10 07:46:55] [Andrew Rambaut] But perhaps it was necessary to get it done politically [2020-12-10 07:47:01] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, that was really dumb. To be honest though - I think it was the only way they could get the politicians to wake up, so they used it as an excuse. [2020-12-10 07:47:07] [Kristian Andersen] Hah. There you go :wink: [2020-12-10 07:48:39] [Andrew Rambaut] I remember when the UK banned mink farming. There was generally widespread support for getting rid of it. [2020-12-10 07:48:55] [Andrew Rambaut] But just because it was a shit industry supplying posh people [2020-12-10 07:49:34] [Kristian Andersen] Same in Denmark - that's the crazy part. All of a sudden people seem to have forgotten that the mink industry is culling millions of mink every year for fur coats... People are not logical. [2020-12-10 07:51:00]