Yes, but if we can't attract the world's foremost virologists to programs that we have some degree of control over in the middle of international cities where t

Yes, but if we can't attract the world's foremost virologists to programs that we have some degree of control over in the middle of international cities where they can engage in serial passaging of airborne HIV in the morning, and then get lunch at places that are trending, authentic and cutting-edge, then they'll just go to a program in another country that doesn't have these restrictions. No-one wants to live in an underground facility for weeks or months at a time when they could be making the most of living in a major city, not even virologists working on pathogens that are being modified to see what would happen if there was a pathogen whose evolution was guided in a particularly interesting direction and compressed from decades to weeks or even days. Anyway, if we were to ask the world's foremost experts in the virological community whether we should restrict such research to carefully-controlled remote locations subject to stringent controls, long quarantines and strict oversight, then we might find that the answer was similar to when we asked "is if likely or even within the realm of possibility that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab in Wuhan as result of Gain-of-Function research". And they might insist that we listen to them because they were the experts, and they would probably find a lot of support in the government and the media.