It's not OK to be actively trying to make those edits, especially after a history of lab containment failures. After the USA banned this research because of th

It's not OK to be actively trying to make those edits, especially after a history of lab containment failures. After the USA banned this research because of the danger, some of it moved out of the country. At least one of the researchers moved from the USA to Wuhan, China. The ban should have been a clear message: such research is unacceptably dangerous.