The elephant (with obligatory unicorn horn) in the room is this:  replace "gain of function" research with "nuclear weapon yield increase" research into all the discourse to point and ask yourself this:  wtfrak was any US agency involved in funding this research in the PRC, regardless of how one feels about gain of function research?  Are viruses not the central aspect of the most dangerous forms of potential biological weapons?  SpaceEx isn't allowed to hire some people because of national security concerns, and yet we are farming out "weapons of mass destruction" research to the PRC, probably the most serious national security threat on our horizon, because, as Fauci put it, "we don't want to do that kind of thing in New Jersey" [paraphrase].  Will some public figure <b>please</b> address the national security implications of this money trail?