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whistleblower about the WIV could have been fun. [2021-04-12 14:51:55] [Robert Garry] https://nypost.com/2021/03/05/sacha-baron-cohen-deals-vaccines-to-celebs-in-hilarious-bit/ Vaccine dealer to the A-listers [2021-04-12 15:09:44] [Eddie Holmes] Perhaps I can still do this! [2021-04-12 15:13:37] [Robert Garry] I think that's a good idea. While you're at it pitch a movie deal. My guess is that SBC is planning a C19 movie of some sort. IMO SBC would make an excellent @Covidfaker. Few other actors could pull of that level of sleaze. [2021-04-12 15:15:46] [Robert Garry] He might have to play multiple rolls thou. Who could master Yuri the dog head-freezer better than SBC? [2021-04-12 15:17:38] [Eddie Holmes] Actually, Yuri could easily be an SBC character! I'd love to see him do eDim as well [2021-04-12 15:18:15] [Robert Garry] Of course there is Billy aka Kevin - put a beard on SBC and he nails it. But yes SBC in a fat suit IS eDim. [2021-04-12 15:19:25] [Robert Garry] The script practically writes itself. [2021-04-12 15:21:48] [Eddie Holmes] It does! [2021-04-12 16:30:25] [Kristian Andersen] Finally had some time to read the pangolin paper in Frontiers. It's a shit paper, but the findings seem solid enough - ~10% of tested pangolins (in a single zoo in Guangdong) positive for SARS(2)-like CoVs. That's pretty nuts. Total convenience sampling too and they didn't go after these specifically - I think pangolins might just be packed full of CoVs, which is bloody scary. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.657439/full [2021-04-12 16:33:15] [Kristian Andersen] SARS, of course, broke out in Guangdong. I wonder if we're blind because we're focusing so much on bats in Yunnan - is it possible these guys are coming from pangolins? [2021-04-12 16:34:18] [Eddie Holmes] No doubt in my mind that pangolins are major reservoirs. That's what Tommy and Linfa see as well. And it won't just be bats and pangolins. [2021-04-12 16:35:27]