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[2021-03-23 06:56:34] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-03-23 00:07:33] @Andrew Rambaut Never saw that money from the institution. Bastards. [2021-03-23 07:00:40] [Kristian Andersen] I think people are majorly underestimating how flexible and mutational tolerant the spike is. [2021-03-23 07:37:17] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-03-23 00:07:33] @Andrew Rambaut Rich bastards! :grinning: [2021-03-23 07:50:56] [Kristian Andersen] ... as for Ralph DeepThroat, I don't think he's realizing that this actually helps us... Yes, as we said, we considered a lab leak a very real and serious possibility, no, that does not change our conclusions [add new stuff from WHO report]. [2021-03-23 07:59:11] [Robert Garry] Me thinks that Alina may be taking her "victory lap" a few news cycles too soon. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-23 08:01:20] [Robert Garry] Not sure what Andrew told Lipstich, but ML Is still wrong - saying WIV had SC2 before the pandemic is a conspiracy theory plain and simple... [2021-03-23 08:04:22] [Andrew Rambaut] Here is mine... https://twitter.com/arambaut/status/1374253839063334913 [2021-03-23 08:19:45] [Robert Garry] TOTALLY AWESOME: [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-23 08:21:22] [Andrew Rambaut] ML side-skipped the bit about it being absolutely a conspiracy theory. [2021-03-23 08:36:18] [Kristian Andersen] Naughty. [2021-03-23 08:41:18] [Robert Garry] Need to point out at every opportunity what Andrew just said to ML. If your Lab Leak hypothesis says that WIV had SC2 [or SC2 lite] before the pandemic then it is a *conspiracy theory*. [2021-03-23 09:12:09] [Robert Garry] Shi giving a talk over zoom - all of the Parisites are on. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-23 09:14:10]