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I wish I had it on hand, but I have seen it more than once, including not long after it came out: in October 2019, one of the 4chan folks, one of the lab geeks,

I wish I had it on hand, but I have seen it more than once, including not long after it came out: in October 2019, one of the 4chan folks, one of the lab geeks, posted that they had seen a fairly unusual virus come trucking through in the SARS family. I saw the screenshot posted again around December. I would not be even a little shocked if it were kicking around in early 2019, or even before. Just think of how HIV was skulking about, smoldering, before really catching on the tinder.

gpcr1949 5y ago
here's the archived 4chan post [0]. The op is sort of ridiculous and not relevant, but the poster with id pUlkHE7L post some PCR stuff which is very strange to post at that date (21 october 2019 if the timestamps are correct). However, SARS-CoV-2 is 30kb not 35kb. [0] https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/230585890/ https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/230585890/
- mumubro 5y ago
  Not a big difference between 30kb and 35kb if running gel.
- at_a_remove 5y ago
  That's the one! Yeah, the timestamps are right, that's when I remember seeing it. Thank you for finding it.