I think you have a reasonable point here. I saw Marc Lipsitch give a talk with a back-of-napkin "Expected mortality from gain of function research" estimate in

I think you have a reasonable point here. I saw Marc Lipsitch give a talk with a back-of-napkin "Expected mortality from gain of function research" estimate in...I want to say 2013. We know there's zoonotic spillover events of a number of scary pathogens, including the last two epidemic coronaviruses. In a global sense of preventing future pandemics, an either/or framing is immensely flawed.