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Very cool Bob - you should put in reply on the virological post. So cool to see the pieces of the puzzle fitting in! Btw, I'm busy... [shared file(s): Image from iOS.jpg] [2021-03-12 18:35:14] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, great work Bob. However, we may need permission to use PRC31. What's that white stuff Kristian (no, not the stuff on the mirror, the stuff out the window)? [2021-03-12 18:36:03] [Eddie Holmes] It's taken me all morning, but I've finally got a caption for the morphing photo: [2021-03-12 18:36:43] [Eddie Holmes] "Yet another dangerous gain-of-function experiment" [shared file(s): Doc1.png] [2021-03-12 18:42:46] [Robert Garry] Depends on the direction of the morphing though - Holmes to Baric to Daszak IMO def LoF. [2021-03-12 18:46:03] [Eddie Holmes] Very true. [2021-03-12 18:58:17] [Robert Garry] Actually a lot of evidence for natural spillover - let's start with the early market cases. Next BS is she seems to think they let undergrads into BSL3. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-12 19:02:53] [Eddie Holmes] Can't wait for her to deal with the smoking raccoon dog. I just don't know how she can keep writing this stuff day after day after day [2021-03-13 06:42:18] [Robert Garry] Well Well - that didn't take long. The new Ebola outbreaks are "more likely" to be lab leaks, too. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-13 07:39:48] [Kristian Andersen] A lab leak of a previously engineered pathogen, I assume? [2021-03-13 07:52:20] [Robert Garry] You would know... [2021-03-13 09:27:19] [Robert Garry] https://jvi.asm.org/content/89/19/10130 Perhaps an mystery solved about 2014 DRC outbreak? [2021-03-13 09:32:06] [Kristian Andersen] Maybe, maybe not.. Andrew had some good points here: https://twitter.com/arambaut/status/1370509163512659968?s=21 (and in the linked blogpost - technical, but good).