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SLACK_000969 [Robert Garry] There were rumors last year that Baltimore's we died - I dunno - DB probably heard horror stories about CCP from i. but also misses the "spotlight. [Robert Garry] https://news.yahoo.com/menu-china-virus-market-rats-live-wolf-pups-111650959.html "A price list circulating on China's internet for a business at the Wuhan market lists a menagerie of animals or animal-based products including live foxes, crocodiles, wolf puppies, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, peacocks, porcupines, camel meat and other game -- 112 items in all. "Freshly slaughtered, frozen and delivered to your door," said the price list for the vendor, "Wild Game Animal Husbandry for the Masses". Gao Fu, director of the Chinese centre for disease control and prevention, said in Beijing on Wednesday that authorities believe the virus likely came from "wild animals at the seafood market" though the exact source remains undetermined." [Robert Garry] https://mustsharenews.com/wuhan-market-animals-menu/ [Robert Garry] Civet cats on menu. [shared file(s): image.png] [Andrew Rambaut] Centipedes go really nicely with squirrels. [Robert Garry] Surely, but I'm not sure what the best wine pairing would be. Maybe a complex wine like a Barolo or a Shiraz or you could opt for a Pinot Noir. [Kristian Andersen] This is good. https'//twitter.com/HansonM90/status/1389481573167288325?s=20 [Eddie Holmes] More from Daszak: "There is hope though - I'm in regular contact with zhengli and they're sequencing genomes from the positives in our samples and working on papers to publish them. She tells me that we can sample in China and I just think we have to keep every channel open. I wish more people@would speak out against the lab leak bs here - relman and ebright have no data or analysis to add, but they're talking with press@every day & that story is too enticing for reporters to resist at the moment" [Kristian Andersen] Spot on. Sadly. [Kristian Andersen] I just finished talking to Katherine / Vanity Fair - exhausting to say the least. It's PROVE A NEGATIVE, PROVE A NEGATIVE, PROVE A NEGATIVE, over and over again. I walker her through how there's such a thing as "likelihood" in science - while two hypotheses may be _possible_ there's a difference in how _likely_ they are. I'm