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@Robert Garry Reminds me of Covidfaker. After his episode in the COVID spotlight and subsequent termination by NBC he spent the next year doing this: [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-20 06:52:48] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-03-19 17:49:24] @Robert Garry You might ask about the feathers - it's not a permanent boa. [2021-03-20 06:56:34] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-03-19 17:49:24] @Robert Garry It's St Michael the Archangel on his back protecting Covidfaker from Satan. Wiki: *Michael* leads God's armies against Satan's forces in the Book of Revelation, where during the war in heaven he defeats Satan. [2021-03-20 07:10:04] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-03-19 17:49:24] @Robert Garry Can't make this stuff up. [2021-03-20 07:31:30] [Robert Garry] Great reference to the Rolling Stones - Jagger clearly has his own demons but unlike some of the others [Alina, Yuri, Covidfaker] discussed herein is a true genus. [2021-03-20 07:33:48] [Robert Garry] I am hoping Jessie dives in and comes to his senses. Alina is too far gone. [2021-03-20 08:32:01] [Robert Garry] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5008?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&a mp;rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&"the real-world studies that detect viral RNA in the environment report very low levels, and few have isolated viable virus." In anticipation of the WHO report - which is likely to have a section about smoking racoon dogs - i think it's key. The most likely explanation for the high levels of virus on the grates under the animal cages is that the animals were infected. They were ab`le to grow virus out of 2 of the environmental samples. [2021-03-20 08:50:57] [Robert Garry] well done @Eddie Holmes https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/19/979314118/next-pandemic-scien tists-fear-another-coronavirus-could-jump-from-animals-to-hum [2021-03-20 08:59:09] [Andrew Rambaut] You can see why people want it to be a lab leak - this is much more scary. [2021-03-20 09:14:06] [Kristian Andersen] I think we mentioned this on our very first call... Nature is way way more scary than lab. [2021-03-20 09:18:31] [Robert Garry] Very good point - Daszak made a good one as well in the NPR - extrapolating the 3% serology to even a portion of the general population is a lot of sarbecovirus exposures - way more than a few lab ppl mist-netting at a few caves per year. [2021-03-20 09:34:41]