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[2021-03-22 21:55:03] [Eddie Holmes] What about the Russian one? [2021-03-22 22:02:50] [Kristian Andersen] :man-shrugging: [2021-03-22 22:34:46] [Eddie Holmes] Putin's puppet has a nice ring to it [2021-03-23 00:07:33] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-03-23 00:07:33] Don't forget the $5 of funding you got from me. Alina should add that as a line in her wall of crazy. [2021-03-23 04:53:07] [Robert Garry] PO1 was indeed the perfect red herring to distract the sleuths and detectives from uncovering the plan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylwMWpbv5Fk [2021-03-23 04:57:09] [Robert Garry] But the true genus was throwing out RaTG13 - look how long it too until anyone suspected that "we" had SC2 all along! We being all of us "chaos agents" on Alina's wall. $40M not too bad Kristian! [2021-03-23 05:19:16] [Andrew Rambaut] What do we make of this: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.22.436468v1.full.pdf [2021-03-23 05:38:14] [Robert Garry] Plausible - Indel Region 2 and 3 - very divergent between SC2 and GDpangocov. [2021-03-23 05:39:03] [Robert Garry] NTD is the receptor binding domain of many CoVs. [2021-03-23 05:43:35] [Robert Garry] Not on this topic but related to "the Plan." Spoke with Betsy McKay again late yesterday- reading between the lines I believe that our friend "Deep Throat" has surfaced again. She was aware of the email exchanges back in January - hinted that they had been shared with her from someone on the calls that thought "we" were a bit overly friendly to the lab leak. [2021-03-23 05:47:50] [Robert Garry] Back to the interesting paper - important to keep in mind that enhanced replication in cell culture doesn't necessarily translate to enhanced pathogenesis. As Andrew you've noted - it's all about the timing... [2021-03-23 06:12:23] [Andrew Rambaut] Shows how modular the spike is though.