Slack / Private Message Drop — page 595

Agreed - but as far as the rainbow goes you've got to be kidding - I talked to an NBC reporter - Denise Chow -last week for about an hour wherein I used the term "lab magic." Chow's credible and actually one of the two NBC reporters that were allowed to visit WIV last year. Chow - not a lab leak fan by any means. Pretty sure she was going to talk to Alina though - I dunno - I might have mentioned Alina was an idiot or something to that effect. [2021-03-14 16:38:07] [Eddie Holmes] The question ought to be 'what evidence would proponents of the lab escape theory accept as disproving lab escape?' [2021-03-14 16:45:50] [Robert Garry] SC2 in an animal should do it. Having a virus positive environmental sample from under a cage is damn close. No other way that virus could have gotten there except from the animals in the cage. [2021-03-14 16:46:07] [Robert Garry] Need to think a bit more about the lineage A and B conundrum, but I think that too is consistent. Closer look at the Market associated environmental and human sample sequences in the context of the smoking dog will be revealing I think. [2021-03-14 16:48:22] [Robert Garry] I've been very careful not to mention the smoking dog to any reporters yet, but looking forward to the opportunity when the report is dropped. [2021-03-14 16:49:29] [Eddie Holmes] I agree - that you would do it. I would they accept any positive SC2 in an animal? Yes, best not mention the smoking dog yet... [2021-03-14 19:21:22] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-03-14 16:34:00] @Eddie Holmes Agreed - She's also dissing Tony F for having the temerity to suggest that B and C don't change the fact that the virus came from nature. [2021-03-14 19:23:58] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-03-14 16:34:00] @Eddie Holmes And are thus like a million or more times less likely than other human exposures to animals. [2021-03-14 19:24:58] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-03-14 16:34:00] @Eddie Holmes Still - it wouldn't hurt to be careful with that tea Eddie. [2021-03-14 19:34:18] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2021-03-14 16:34:00] @Eddie Holmes Totally! Plus ferret badgers, hog badgers (look them up) and Asian badgers are all present in that tropical garden we got the bats from. Spillover zoo. [2021-03-15 00:27:26] [Andrew Rambaut]