The idea behind this gain-of-function research was that we would learn which pathogens might leap into human beings, and that knowing that would help scientists develop vaccines and treatments for these prospective possible pandemics. Fauci, writing to molecular biologists in 2012, downplayed the possibility that laboratory workers or scientists studying these dangerous pathogens might cause the pandemic they were working to prevent.
Yep, good ol' Tony Fauci was the ScienceTM! You can see we should have known about him from the
80s. Why do you think he was able to do what he did to us and get away with it (so far)?