This could be me being closed minded, but I don't see any world where GOF research is not amoral and hubris.  Accidents happen.  One can setup responses in anticipation of certain types of epidemics without confronting the actual dangers.  These people do these things so they can have private power, secret weapons they can use against their secret enemies and they get the public to pay for it.<br>The BS of precise terminology and meaning of GOF is ridiculous and outrageous.  Also, making it sound like it started in 2011 is bordering on intentional misinformation.  This nation has been conducting very harmful and often dangerous experiments and on its own people without public knowledge.  To suggest you are able to ask questions beyond bounds shaped by the state (political correctness, deep state and your own unacknowledged fears, agendas, psyche twisted by your own socio-economic," present and future employer obligations already evident to many) is simply delusional.<br>Do you really have freedom of speech here?  I can't even ask an innocuous out-of-the-box scientific question without getting hammered by some <a href=""http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23metoo"">#metoo</a> type movement.  Maybe you're not as free as you think you are in this surveillance post -911 state.  It's definitely limited progress.  So", you've already been Chinafied.  But you've exceeded even their wildest expectations.  (The art is controlling you without you thinking you're being controlled.  Better you think you're free, right?)  Maybe, in this covid response," is part of the GOF research expanding the <a href=""http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23metoo"">#metoo</a> type political correctness controls", expanding controls and methods of delivering virtually untested, potentially malicious injections of genetic modifications to vast populations, further subverting, checks and balances, once-sacred democratic processes, etc, etc and, of course, getting rid of Trump.  It's just GOF for the (already known immoral) gov't over its sheeples. ...and you're all "bumpkins" thinking this is about covid (really.  who cares? everyone knew a pandemic was coming.). And whether it was a lab leak?(does that really matter? (everyone knows accidents are inevitable.  so, shouldn't the focus be, why wasn't more mitigation done?  And why was the response so flimsy?...by everyone?  ...like quarantine procedures for flights out of Wuhan and China after China signal something was wrong when they even stopped domestic flights from Wuhan.<br>If this weak and deeply flawed CDC response is indicative of what we get for all the tax dollars spent, shouldn't we be examining the extent of gov't corruption in the health and defense sector?  Apparently, the govt salary was only sufficient for employees to collect their own private arsenal of bioweapons for private sense of power and personal use?<br>Isn't Metzi a reflection of "institutional capture" by local nationalistic and more local (gatekeeper and funding?) entities as well?  But I'm still struggling to understand why this guy who used CRISPR to confer HIV immunity got hammered and these people doing GOF research often on massive populations don't..