Curious what the largest grain of salt sold at the Wuhan market is, so I can take it with Daszak's tweet. We know frozen anything is not a vector for covid, the paper itself says pangolins weren't sold, and somehow this key research from 2019 fortuitously emerges in June 2021. https://twitter.com/PeterDaszak/status/1401908087557177353 …
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Really—why is Daszak bringing up pangolins here at all? Even this serendipitously discovered paper points out their absence. Leave the pangolins alone.pic.twitter.com/uxyIPzhlv1
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For my money, this is the best part of the paper. "Hello, fellow merchant. I am an independent observer unconnected with law enforcement. Please provide me with a list of the illegal animals you are selling (and your written consent!) so that I may publish it in two years' time."pic.twitter.com/HLRWsIGWOY
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Daszak blocked me immediately, so let me screenshot what I was replying to here.pic.twitter.com/SMxvI7nvCt
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Pinboard Retweeted James Palmer
Useful context thread from
@BeijingPalmer. This very natural reflex to obfuscate is why I find Daszak's aggressive defensiveness more interesting than the sudden appearance of the Chinese researchhttps://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1401934598574067713 …Pinboard added,
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Pinboard Retweeted Alexandros Marinos
So Daszak was instrumental in an earlier effort to shut down inquiry about Covid origins. No wonder the guy instablocks:https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1401813071635501056 …
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Alexandros Marinos @alexandrosMThe Lancet letter of Feb 18, 2020, sent a message to scientists the world over: Investigate a lab leak, and you will be tarred as conspiracy theorist. Was it a honest outpouring of support? Or astroturfing? To start, of the 27 signatories, 7 were affiliated with EcoHealth...
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To be clear about where I stand: I think it's possible to be genuinely in the dark about how the pandemic started, absent further evidence, and also find these efforts to pre-empt investigation fishy as hell.
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Here's what I don't get. Even if video surfaces of like Xi Jinping dropping barrels labeled Coronavirus, in english, with giant painted skulls and crossbones, on Wuhan's water supply, it would help with absolutely jack shit. What are other govts going to do abt it, send a bill?
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So, like, what's the point? if it's not going to help in any way, why set millions of dollars on fire looking for that RIGHT NOW? There's better things to waste money on, like the CDC or the fucking FDA.
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The point is, should we be building new coronavirus labs or tearing them down? It's extremely important to know whether research pushed us into an avoidable pandemic, or whether there's natural reservoirs that we need to throw resources that understanding, or some third answer.
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I don't think a "malicious China" scenario passes the laugh test. But how the virus actually started to spread has huge implications for preventing future pandemics
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