<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:04 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
So it is really out of the question that this happened 5 to 10 years ahead<br>
of schedule? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>### As I wrote in response to the post (maybe misattributing the quote), making a new SARS virus is trivially easy, if you have a library of viral samples. You PCR amplify, ligate, insert into proper feeder cells and wait a little bit. Can be done in about a day of work for simple viruses. There is no doubt that the Wuhan Institute of Virology generated lots of new viruses, they published on it.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal </div></div></div>