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[2021-05-11 12:49:05] [Robert Garry] Alina complaining that Tucker put words in her mouth. https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1392167148185923594 Hmmmmm A lesson I never really learned too well. "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it." [2021-05-11 12:59:58] [Kristian Andersen] "I've never said that SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 virus was designed for human-to-human transmission." I don't know man - she might not have said those words directly, however, she has pretty much said this very thing over and over again... [2021-05-11 13:07:00] [Robert Garry] Yip - over and over and over. [2021-05-11 13:09:44] [Eddie Holmes] Serves her right. The Aus govt have just announced that our borders will be closed until mid-2022 so I won't be going to a CCP holiday camp any time soon. [2021-05-11 13:12:52] [Andrew Rambaut] Mid 2022? Is that instead of vaccinating? [2021-05-11 13:21:20] [Eddie Holmes] The vaccine roll-out is going really slowly....glacial. People feel safe on our isolated island with no COVID. It's obviously ridiculous because we'll never eradicate the virus and so will have to bite the bullet at some point, but closed borders and no COVID is a huge vote winner. Totally fucks the universities though. [2021-05-11 13:28:53] [Robert Garry] Sucks - US has literally more vaccine than they know what to do with, but few Republicans want to take it because - who knows why? - Fauci is a bad man? [2021-05-11 13:31:06] [Andrew Rambaut] If you open a travel corridor with China (who have zero covid, obviously) then you will be sorted. [2021-05-11 13:40:30] [Eddie Holmes] Perhaps I just should suggest that online? Cheap flights to Xinjiang. [2021-05-11 13:45:03] [Andrew Rambaut] Students into Unis, Profs off to China for all expenses jollies as guests of CCP [2021-05-11 13:47:57] [Eddie Holmes] Everyone's a winner! [2021-05-11 13:49:00] [Robert Garry] Makes sense - China and Australia probably the safest spots on the planet, excepting the really really cold bits.