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Bill's posting on virological shows you where the 12 base pairs probably comes from. Not sure it helps with these people who spin these 'just-so' stories though. [2020-05-22 09:37:10] [Kristian Andersen] I'm so sick and tired of these "but how do you _really_ know it's not X? What about Y? Oh, but what about Z?". Either show me the fucking data or fuck off - two fucks to chose from. [2020-05-22 14:13:57] [Eddie Holmes] I got the same email as well. I never respond to these. [2020-05-22 14:16:49] [Kristian Andersen] Our communications department declined this one on my behalf and he wrote back saying "Oh, I know you're busy, but I only have a few short questions [paste everything in from Andrew's email]". Fuck off. [2020-05-22 14:20:01] [Eddie Holmes] Did you see Jon Cohen's piece in Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/house-was-fire-top-chinesevirologist-how-china-and-us-have-met-pandemic [2020-05-22 14:22:15] [Eddie Holmes] Some complete BS answers (they had the sequence by Dec 26/27) but interesting that he says there is a task force investigating the animal origins. [2020-05-22 14:31:23] [Eddie Holmes] I fully expect George Gao's team to come up with a paper describing a very closely related virus in species X in fairly near future. Let's just hope it's close enough to end debate and that they made all the raw read data available. [2020-05-22 14:34:54] [Kristian Andersen] Interesting... No, I did not read that - but will do. I really do hope a source will come up - would be so much easier and just end this shit show. [2020-05-22 14:37:14] [Eddie Holmes] Completely agree. I so want that to happen. [2020-05-22 15:02:54] [Robert Garry] It's obvious, but the only bits I'm really interested in are the RBD and the cleavage site of the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2. Yeah would be great. Hopefully not another - we have the 99+% virus cycle of build-up, promise, anticipation and - then most sadly deflation. WHO is supposedly putting a panel together to "investigate" the origins as well but I'd hope that the Chinese might have figured out a way to actually find something. I guess if I had to guess on species X I'd go with bat - pretty good bet. [2020-05-22 15:06:35] [Eddie Holmes] Bob, I'll take your bat and raise you a raccoon dog. Only because they are so weird. I still think there was an intermediate. I can't see how WHO will be able to do what China can't. It's also the obvious way for China to end all the conspiracy shit - find a believable natural origin and it's over. Let's watch this space. [2020-05-22 16:47:45]