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[Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2021-02-07 12:30:12] Bob, I will take a look when I can but I would just hold off submitting anything until after the WHO team have made their announcement in a few days. I sense that Daszak is increasingly bullish about excluding WIV. [2021-02-07 18:23:05] [Kristian Andersen] Add Tom Inglesby... https://twitter.com/t_inglesby/status/1358601852728860674?s=21 [2021-02-07 18:30:07] [Eddie Holmes] I think a lot of it is now the Emperor's New Clothes....you have to say it because that's the flavour of the day. There should be a bandwagon emoji. [2021-02-07 18:33:40] [Kristian Andersen] :disguised_face: [2021-02-07 20:43:44] [Eddie Holmes] WHO press conference in Wuhan on Tuesday John from the BBC says. I'm not going to talk with him. [2021-02-07 21:30:00] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, he emailed me too - and yeah, I'll decline as well (plus, I'll be out most of this week - pretty perfect timing on my part :wink: ) [2021-02-07 23:11:06] [Eddie Holmes] Just got this from Dominic in Wuhan - "Real argy bargy here in Wuhan. The head Chinese guy just said that your photos of the Huanan market might have been synthesised!". WTFuck is going on?? Perhaps they denying they even had mammals there? Weird. [2021-02-07 23:37:07] [Andrew Rambaut] Does that suggest the WHO group are suggesting a direct role for the market? [2021-02-07 23:46:31] [Eddie Holmes] There's definitely something going on re: the market but I can't quite think what. Could just be a direct link or just tying-up loose ends before eliminating it. Daszak says he was going to use the photos for species identification. This leads me to think that the officials must have denied that the species I photographed were ever in the market but that my crappy photos prove otherwise. I also wonder if those 'environmental samples' are actually more informative that we think. [2021-02-07 23:47:37] [Eddie Holmes] I seem to be the Forrest Gump of COVID. [2021-02-07 23:49:43] [Andrew Rambaut] One thing there is copious evidence for is that you are not working for the CCP - [2021-02-07 23:56:36] [Eddie Holmes]