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As did we Kristian. I think I would be more bothered if she had not considered the possibility. To me, she comes across as honest. [2021-03-29 16:26:14] [Eddie Holmes] What do you make of that ACE2 stuff? If all their staff are negative then it's game over....unless there's been massive cover-up. [2021-03-29 16:28:01] [Kristian Andersen] "her laboratory used recombinant viruses to test whether bat CoVs could use ACE2 to bind but used bat spike protein on *a bat-CoV backbone*, not human SARS" Which backbone? [2021-03-29 16:29:25] [Kristian Andersen] "*other researchers* engineered SHC014 spike so did not need isolates for mouse experiments. WIV began recombinant work in 2015 with WIV-1. It received ACE2 mice in 2016 and *started recombinant experiments with WIV +SHC014* in 2018 but did not finish them owing to the COVID outbreak" This might all just be bad writing, but there's a lot of wiggle room in these statements. I'm not really sure how to interpret them. [2021-03-29 16:32:15] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, I couldn't quite follow it either. I guess she means SCH014 which is a SARS-like virus. This accords with her comments to John Cohen that they were only working on SARS-like viruses. [2021-03-29 16:32:52] [Eddie Holmes] Dominic also said that it clear that the intelligence services have nothing. [2021-03-29 16:33:51] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, maybe they're just referring to this? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/ [2021-03-29 16:34:57] [Kristian Andersen] A lot of the conspiracy theories mention the "GOF Research" at WIV and how they made these scary recombinant viruses - but that work was in DeepThroat's lab, not at WIV - so maybe that's what they're pushing against. [2021-03-29 16:35:10] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, that's the one. [2021-03-29 16:36:02] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, I think that's what they're saying - "we did stuff in bats, but the human conspiracy stuff isn't actually us". [2021-03-29 16:36:40] [Eddie Holmes] Agreed. And I believe them. [2021-03-29 16:37:42] [Eddie Holmes]