Worse yet, before the pandemic there was more political pressure to regulate and discuss the risks of such research. Now it feels like politicians are afraid to

Worse yet, before the pandemic there was more political pressure to regulate and discuss the risks of such research. Now it feels like politicians are afraid to even discuss it. Places like NYT used to occasionally post articles like https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/opinion/sunday/the-truth-about-the-doomsday-virus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/opinion/sunday/the-truth-... and https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/health/h5n1-bird-flu-research-that-stoked-fears-is-published.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/health/h5n1-bird-flu-rese... but now you will never seem anything like this published. It is as if the concerns over lab accidents has all but disappeared!