Slack / Private Message Drop — page 63

WELLLLLLL .... Laurie Garrett was just on the teevee and said that if social distancing etc had not been implemented a half a billion people would be dead now or dead shortly from now. Less than 8 billion people on the planet (not counting aliens and zombies). Chris Hayes was incredulous but moved on... does anyone believe the IFR is >5%? This is neil ferguson on steroids. Seriously WTF. [2020-06-08 18:02:53] [Kristian Andersen] Well, she did conclude SARS-CoV-2 has an R0 of 500 - so fair enough. [2020-06-08 18:54:24] [Eddie Holmes] Andrew, my link to that page opens then disappears...says 'This page is no longer active'. [2020-06-08 18:56:19] [Kristian Andersen] Same here - isn't it awesome? We wrote some crap, but we're hiding it for now because it's too bumb. [2020-06-08 18:56:21] [Eddie Holmes] Laurie, Laurie, Laurie what a fuckwit [2020-06-08 18:56:32] [Kristian Andersen] bumb - gotta be a new word... [2020-06-08 19:08:23] [Eddie Holmes] Totally bumb [2020-06-08 20:15:00] [Eddie Holmes] https://abcnews.go.com/International/satellite-data-suggests-coronavirus-hit-china-earlier-researchers/story?id=711 23270 [2020-06-08 20:16:57] [Eddie Holmes] Bull-sheet [2020-06-08 20:23:29] [Kristian Andersen] _"On Oct. 10, 2018, there were 171 cars in the parking lot of Wuhan's Tianyou Hospital, one of the city's largest. A year later, satellites recorded 285 cars -- a 67% increase"_ I'm convinced... _"Something was happening in October"_ Like flu or something? [2020-06-08 20:23:51] [Kristian Andersen] _"Using techniques similar to those employed by intelligence agencies"_ Like satellite data and shit? [2020-06-08 20:24:40] [Kristian Andersen] _"Clearly, there was some level of social disruption taking place well before what was previously identified as the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic."_ Whatever that was, it wasn't COVID - we know this very specifically from the genetic data. [2020-06-08 20:25:12]