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[2021-05-29 02:54:00] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-05-29 02:54:00] I feel sea-sick [2021-05-29 05:07:37] [Andrew Rambaut] Could have a sneaky dig at the GVP - they wanted $2B? to sequence all viruses? which they estimated to be something tiny like 100K? [2021-05-29 07:01:07] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-05-29 07:01:07] Hope it doesn't escape: https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1398638782740525057 [2021-05-29 07:05:55] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-05-29 00:15:19] I think we could have a title and a lede for the letter - "Umbrella men and the zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2" [2021-05-29 07:21:58] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-05-29 07:01:07] @Andrew Rambaut Myopia - the Bloomshit has the potential to shut this type of research down. Relman, eDim. Alina all have opined that Jessie should move to the country at least to do this dangerous type of animal passage of a PPP. [2021-05-29 07:27:26] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-05-29 02:54:00] @Andrew Rambaut you should - this is bullocks - also not an "exclusive" this crap has been out there for a year. [2021-05-29 07:54:35] [Robert Garry] https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/29/politics/covid-origin-intelligence/index.html Intelligence has nothing - Gupta - full on Kool-Aid! [2021-05-29 08:03:26] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-05-29 07:01:07] @Andrew Rambaut And from Bloom's paper: "All studies were conducted at the BSL2 animal facility at the Centre for Comparative Medicine Research, The University of Hong Kong. " Just asking questions, but how does JB know that inoculating a PPP via novel routes into an animal that has a very human like receptor distribution isn't going to select for a new and more transmissible variant. BSL2 just like a dentist's office according to eDim. [2021-05-29 08:09:48] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-05-29 07:01:07] @Andrew Rambaut Haha, this is so unbelievably dumb - I guess once we have a flu outbreak in Seattle we know who to blame... [2021-05-29 08:11:32] [Kristian Andersen]