So you're acknowledging now that the lab chimera might infect some people if it escaped, but you're saying that's okay because those people would otherwise have

So you're acknowledging now that the lab chimera might infect some people if it escaped, but you're saying that's okay because those people would otherwise have gotten infected with a natural variant anyways? But if the IFR for the lab chimera is higher than the IFR for natural omicron (which it was, at least in their mice), then those people are paying a higher price in mortality for the same immunity--that's the gain of function of concern. And really, is there anything in biology that we know with sufficient confidence to risk millions of lives in exchange for no immediate practical benefit? Like I guess whoever did the 1977 flu vaccine trials also assumed that if their virus escaped, it would get outcompeted by the existing natural viruses; but we know what happened there.