They plan to gaslight you

 The LATimes had an article explaining why we need gain of function research especially at a time when we are facing a bird flu epidemic.

Since the article blithely pretends that the lab leak theory of Covid is wrong, I take anything the author writes with a grain of salt.

I posted my criticism of parts of the article and quotes from other articles on my medical blog... it is too wordy to post here, but if you want to read related stuff check it out.

Key naive assumption stated in the article:

 Regulations  mean mistakes won't happen.

reality: Murphy's law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

Second assumption: Bird flu will kill us all.

well, no evidence of that from the Cattle infected humans.

Bird flu so far is not a problem: only a few cases reported from dairy cow workers and most of them were not very sick... , and given the fast mutation rate of influenza viruses there are many  experts that suggest gain of function research might not help to make a vaccine.

but it 'might be only a matter of time until Bird Flu mutates into another 1918 epidemic...

or would it? That epidemic was exacerbated by malnutrition from World War I, crowding in barracks, and may have hit the young because those over 45 years had immunity from a similar influenza strain that hit years earlier.

=====================

Update: