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Mi in Mandarin. Just tweet "I think Pete's R01 led to this pandemic and funding GVP would lead to more. Thanks @RealDonaldTrump for defunding. #Chinesevirus #MAGA [link to our paper]". [2020-05-23 14:37:20] [Kristian Andersen] (since 65k is apparently our goal now...) [2020-05-23 14:38:03] [Eddie Holmes] Great idea! Just going to login as one of my postdocs. [2020-05-24 01:02:42] [Eddie Holmes] This is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iIQJnEiBXY [2020-05-24 07:21:27] [Robert Garry] Thanks Eddie - Obviously a very smart scientist - the politically motivated attacks need to stop. Makes me want to organize an expedition to trap some raccoon dogs and ferret badgers. [2020-05-24 08:44:27] [Kristian Andersen] Agreed, definitely worth watching. Although, I was disappointed to learn that the Mandarin spelling of Edward Holmes is Edward Holmes. [2020-05-24 11:57:06] [Robert Garry] Much better than Donald Trump's Mandarin name, which I think can be variously translated as loud and crude. [2020-05-24 12:55:51] [Kristian Andersen] Oh, I thought our Great Leaders name was nn in Mandarin. [2020-05-24 13:59:02] [Robert Garry] Curefinder? Maybe my translator is a little off or it choose a synonym. [2020-05-24 15:18:44] [Eddie Holmes] Curefinder? I tried it and got arsefinger. [2020-05-24 15:22:50] [Kristian Andersen] Use a proper translator... This one should be easy :wink: [2020-05-24 15:26:00] [Eddie Holmes] Although CGTN is a propaganda organ for the Chinese government, what she said rang true to me. [2020-05-24 15:30:23] [Kristian Andersen] Yes, although I don't buy her "we were only interested in SARS-like CoVs, and something like SARS-CoV-2 is too far away from that, so we'd never have it here". That's just not true and not a good argument. I liked her comments on RaTG13 though, because it displays something important which she didn't say - yes, they have a lot of samples from bats and other animals - as well as a lot of sequences - but taking a sample and growing an actual virus out of it is really, really difficult. So with tens of thousands of samples (most of them with no SARS-like viruses in them),