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[Robert Garry] That article is disturbing - more disturbing is the barnyard *ménage à trois on the side of the meat truck.* [2020-07-05 18:58:06] [Kristian Andersen] It's really amazing - building up all this mystery and nonsense and really it just comes down to "shit happens". Reminds me of this absolutely evergreen about how SARS2 is spread via farts (up to 200m!!!): https://pubsonline.informs.org/do/10.1287/orms.2020.02.01/full/. I'm honestly surprised we aren't all dead by now - but between COVID and climate change, that might still happen soon enough... :wink:. [2020-07-05 19:40:36] [Eddie Holmes] Hadn't see the fart story. Thanks for sharing. [2020-07-05 20:01:50] [Eddie Holmes] 200 m physical distancing would have been a challenge. [2020-07-05 21:13:06] [Kristian Andersen] ... not for a Dane. 200m is still not enough. [2020-07-05 23:11:45] [Eddie Holmes] Particularly to the nearest Swede. [2020-07-05 23:45:32] [Andrew Rambaut] That article is brilliant. The guy must be just sitting on his couch with a massive spliff just trying to figure shit out: > >Dr Jefferson believes that many viruses lie dormant throughout the globe and emerge when conditions are favourable. It also means they can vanish as quickly as they arrive. > > "Where did SARS-1 go? It's just disappeared," he said. "So we have to think about these things. We need to start researching the ecology of the virus, understanding how it originates and mutates. [2020-07-05 23:57:17] [Eddie Holmes] Senior associate tutor = spliff smoker and shit figure outter. [2020-07-06 06:51:20] [Robert Garry] "I'm honestly surprised we aren't all dead by now - but between COVID and climate change, that might still happen soon enough... :wink:." Don't forget about the nonRatG13 CoV or paramxyovirus that killed 3/6 miners in a Yunnan cave in 2012. But like Dr Jeff said "it's just disappeared," kinda like SARS1 and Bas-Congo virus for that matter... [2020-07-06 15:21:04] [Andrew Rambaut] From Jefferson's wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jefferson_(epidemiologist) : "His views about the effectiveness of influenza vaccines and his outspokenness about them are also controversial; at a 2007 meeting on pandemic preparedness he was shunned by other vaccine researchers and ate alone." He is getting his revenge for being shunned. [2020-07-06 15:21:52]