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[2021-04-20 04:35:44] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-04-19 18:59:30] @Kristian Andersen Not so "simple" really. He's accusing Shi - who actually is China's foremost coronavirus expert - of lying. [2021-04-20 04:36:33] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-04-19 18:59:30] @Kristian Andersen I'm guessing no reply to your email Kristian. [2021-04-20 04:46:08] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-04-19 17:42:29] @Eddie Holmes Important - I'd forgotten about this! Yes -most spillovers die quickly. [2021-04-20 04:53:01] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-04-19 17:49:59] @Eddie Holmes Big fan of DRASTIC - should probably get out of Mom's basement more. https://twitter.com/bomberdan63 [2021-04-20 05:17:07] [Robert Garry] Other "what if" news: https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/hulu-true-crime-sasquatch-murder-cannabis-farmers-16104896.php [2021-04-20 06:32:55] [Robert Garry] It's remarkable to me that a post-doc who bludgeoned her way into the conversation on "origins" by claiming: 1. naively that SC2 has a unusual mutational frequency; 2. is well-adapted to humans; 3. international sequence data bases are filled with fraudulent virus sequences to support a natural origin, and 4. that world-class virologists are engaged in a conspiracy and cover-up/genocide is now somehow an expert in SC2 genomics. :face_vomiting: [shared file(s): Covid-19 Surge in India Risks Breeding Variants the Nation Can't Track - WSJ.pdf] [2021-04-20 07:44:55] [Robert Garry] She's not BTW. [2021-04-20 08:12:13] [Kristian Andersen] In other mutation news, Gytis just shared his post on what's now B.1.620 - that is one crazy franken lineage too. Bloody hell. https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/54 [2021-04-20 08:16:58] [Robert Garry] Unreal [2021-04-20 09:26:40] [Robert Garry] Here's a leopard getting infected it seems with B117: Virus name: hCoV-19/leopard/Czech Republic/4102-5/2021 Accession ID: EPI_ISL_1497614 SC2 is adapting to humans, but seemingly not "giving up on" being pan-tropic. [2021-04-20 10:07:39] [Kristian Andersen]