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"Farm sounds good to me." [2020-06-06 13:49:29] [Robert Garry] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-fur-farm-china-mink-raccoon-fox-wild-animal-a9506976 .html [2020-06-06 15:08:48] [Eddie Holmes] Completely agree about fur farming - makes a lot of sense. Raccoon dogs are used for fur farming. I'll just thought I'd throw that in there. [2020-06-06 15:09:59] [Eddie Holmes] One thing though: if we dismiss RaTG13 to SARS-CoV-2 on the basis of 96% similarity, then so we must also dismiss BCoV to HCoV-OC43. Could easily something closer. [2020-06-06 15:25:35] [Robert Garry] "also dismiss BCoV to HCoV-OC43" Agree - it's all an open case. All those relatives of OC43 infecting so many species is quite remarkable - no reason to pick on cows. [2020-06-07 12:55:10] [Kristian Andersen] WTF? My mild annoyance has now turned to being truly pissed off. https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1269395226541518849?s=20 [2020-06-07 13:03:52] [Andrew Rambaut] Unbelievable. 250K follows goes to your head obviously [2020-06-07 13:04:37] [Andrew Rambaut] Your man Nate gave him a good kicking. [2020-06-07 13:06:30] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, just saw that - I'm replying to say I agree with Nate. This is completely off base! [2020-06-07 13:07:52] [Kristian Andersen] We KNOW we can't predict these kind of outcomes with _*any*_ certainty so we shouldn't even try - especially not when it comes to something this important. And on Twitter? Really? [2020-06-07 13:09:56] [Andrew Rambaut] ```Trevor Bedford Replying to @trvrb (Keep in mind that my numbers above represent a best guess in the absence of real data. They could be easily be off.)``` [2020-06-07 13:11:11] [Kristian Andersen] Oh, really, Trevor? Off by one or two orders of magnitude in either direction kinda off? I'm truly baffled.