“...continue this research, even at the risk of pandemic...”
—Dr. Fauci, in a 2014 email to Dr. Daszak
Is there a credible source for this? How about the full text of the email so that we can see the context?
The problem with fear-mongers is that they take a snippet and present it out of context to imply that the author of the snippet was saying something they never actually said.
In 2014, the government was very concerned about the possibility of a pandemic. In 2014, I was a member of the pandemic warning team which was tasked with making sure our laboratory network would be capable of identifying a new outbreak and communicating it to the CDC in a timely fashion. The fact that the government is highly concerned about pandemics does not imply that scientific research meant to reveal exactly what makes an organism pandemic capable can cause a pandemic. This is not something that the scientific community fully understands yet. We know the characteristics of a pandemic organism, but why one organism causes a pandemic while a similar organism only causes sporadic illness is not something we have figured out yet.
Every government on earth is concerned about pandemics for good reason. Pandemics and epidemics have killed countless hundreds of millions throughout history. As we saw during the height of the Covid pandemic before vaccines became available, a pandemic is a huge disruptor of economic activity and society. Governments would rather avoid such disruptions because they depend on the taxes generated by robust economic activity in order to function.