Maybe we'll end up banning it again and stopping international funding of it? It's pretty absurd to say that it makes no difference whether or not the virus wa

Maybe we'll end up banning it again and stopping international funding of it? It's pretty absurd to say that it makes no difference whether or not the virus was a lab leak or not. The answer to that question changes the posterior risk estimates of such research and therefore our international funding and domestic regulatory priorities. There's also such a thing as soft, diplomatic nudges. Not everything is "force X to do Y when they want not-Y".