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SLACK_001111 Image seeing all of this though, freaking out about this having come from the lab, surely the next thing one would do would go and 'plant' the virus in some random animal from the market. It had been shut down just a couple of days before. If I had to cover up a lab leak, that's what I would do - not whatever the fuck is happening right now. [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, let's see if has more to that document - I mean, it_must_ have been on the minds of smart people at the time, so I'd love to get some intel on that. There's just no way. [Eddie Holmes] But if you believe the tinfoils they knew about this is September and at least November [Kristian Andersen] That would have given them even longer to plant that virus in an animal at the market... :wink: [Kristian Andersen] I gotta say though - had I sequenced that RdRp and blasted that fragment, I would have lost my shit. Immediately. [Eddie Holmes] Right. You wouldn't be putting in a paper to Nature for all the fucking world to see. [Kristian Andersen] Nope. And I remember you and I discussing that back then. [Eddie Holmes] And virus X could not really any closer to SARS-CoV-2 than that on an RdRp tree.... [Eddie Holmes] The letter is FAR too complex. The false equivalence angle does not work at all for me. [Eddie Holmes] This needs to completely rewritten IMO [Eddie Holmes] = replied - it's NOT from Shi. Damn! He got sent the RdRp and did it himself. Bum. Of some historical interest jough. The excitement did not last long.... [Andrew Rambaut] Morning - I agree about the letter. It won't have impact like this. Did you see the structure I suggested: https://andersenlab.slack.com/archives/C022R1 PFL2K/p1622293697 139200 ? [Andrew Rambaut]