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[Kristian Andersen] Nice tree in that preprint. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-04-20 at 2.25.20 PM.png] [2021-04-20 15:20:15] [Kristian Andersen] Extra points for being symmetrical. [2021-04-20 15:24:11] [Eddie Holmes] Oh, fuck, that's a classic. I told her to leave it and she said would. [2021-04-20 15:25:12] [Kristian Andersen] I told her the same [2021-04-20 15:25:14] [Andrew Rambaut] I did the same. [2021-04-20 15:25:18] [Andrew Rambaut] And Oli [2021-04-20 15:25:22] [Andrew Rambaut] And Nick Loman [2021-04-20 15:25:26] [Kristian Andersen] Peer review completed. [2021-04-20 15:25:40] [Kristian Andersen] Fuck. These journalists!! [2021-04-21 07:57:04] [Robert Garry] DRASTIC thinks NellY was a mouse mutation engineered into circulating SC2 by the CCP army to take out the UK. That theory is based on https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1603.full [2021-04-21 08:01:03] [Kristian Andersen] I'm surprised it took them so long to speculate about lab origins of the variants. Way more likely (but still highly unlikely...) than the initial spillover. [2021-04-21 08:10:33] [Andrew Rambaut] Yes. They waited for an imported case from London, engineered in all the mutations and then shipped it back to Kent to release it. [2021-04-21 08:10:59] [Andrew Rambaut] Probably in a dog [2021-04-21 08:13:12]