24% INDELS in the latest Omicron sample Sequence QLD-2568 – 2 Dec 2021, blows the doors off of any idea that this variant emerged in the last 2 years. INDELS, especially deletions, occur 8x less often than do in-clade substitutions.

Prohibitively strong as an argument. pic.twitter.com/3g0gJGMCut

— Ethical Skeptic ☀ (@EthicalSkeptic) December 4, 2021