If it leaked from the lab, preventing that is very easy. We just need to stop doing gain of function research.
Whether or not Covid came from a lab, it's at least plausible that it did, and a virus just as bad could get accidentally released in the future. So our options are:
- Continue gain of function research, and risk killing literally millions of people
- Stop gain of function research, and lose any knowledge we would gain from it.
Honestly, I don't know the first thing about gain of function research, but that's one hell of a risk we're taking with it. Can we maybe not try to make the viruses deadlier?
Whether or not Covid came from a lab, it's at least plausible that it did, and a virus just as bad could get accidentally released in the future. So our options are:
- Continue gain of function research, and risk killing literally millions of people
- Stop gain of function research, and lose any knowledge we would gain from it.
Honestly, I don't know the first thing about gain of function research, but that's one hell of a risk we're taking with it. Can we maybe not try to make the viruses deadlier?