Gain of function is biological weapons research. They pretend it’s for vaccines for something that “could” just occur. In reality, the vaccines are to protect your own soldiers from the weapon you’re making. You have to build the shield before you finish the sword.
Well, yes.
This is the first time in history that a handful of people working in a lab can kill the majority of human beings on earth. All it takes is to serial passage the right virus for a 10% lethality (like SARs1) and improve its virulence. Given the number of carbon cult malthusians at the levers of power, I think it’s only a matter of time before the culling and control begins. Gain of Function research is much more of a threat than nukes.