GOF is that gray area of making BIO weapons with the excuse of preparing for them. No one really knows what is going on, because its classified and supposedly overseen by the very people doing it. They don't need it for making vaccines on viruses already infectious. They make them more infectious or more virulent than naturally occurs. They do need it for potential ones and it's just too damn coincidental that many of them of the influenzas variety make into open circulation. How many cancer studies make the cancer worse so they can find a cure? None, they all study existing condition which they already can't stop.
Combine that with partnering with an enemy and infamous intellectual property espionage source with associated compromised security and my BS meter is pegged when it comes to trusting govt research and statements.
We do need it actually. It's used every year for vaccines. Until another way of doing it comes along, this is the best we've got to predict the next season.
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02430-14As far as them "getting out" almost all the GOF is to simulate naturally occurring scenarios. You can do GOF with cows and fences in your barn. Is it a conspiracy when a cow, out in the field, manages to get through a fence, break it, or otherwise get around it like the lab (barn) simulated? Clearly you let that cow loose so it taught all the others, by no means did it happen naturally like the testing (based on real life scenarios) showed. Clearly it was a leak. Here at DJI we perform GOF on internet postings before they get out of hand, currently we're seeing responses to western cattle ranchers that disagree with them can cause a new strain of angry reply. Don't worry, it's contained so it can't ever happen in the wild outside of the lab.
Cancer isn't a virus, it's a disease caused by external factors. Apples to oranges here. At this point we're not completely sure what causes it so we can prevent it fully. We know some things cause it, but we're still guessing at what it really does in the body to start the forming of cancer cells. And we have had several studies that made it worse. The beta carotene study was linked to making lung cancer worse. The thing with cancer is it's not transmissible from person to person, so there's about zero risk of the studies past the patient. Virus and bacteria can spread, so there's inherently more risk in studying them. So If we manage to make a super cancer, it's going to kill one person, not spread and kill millions. "Oops, lesson learned." vs "Oh ****, we just killed half the human race." Its things like this that gain a lot of attention. Guns and firearm info can get folks killed by someone that has less than honorable intentions, and libs want to shut down info on arms for that reason. Are we as bad as nuclear? Nope, but there's a risk with the knowledge. NBCs are safeguarded due to that. Teaching a guy how to make an auto AR-15/M16 isn't near the risk of teaching him how to use and deploy anthrax or a dirty bomb. Thankfully for us it takes a lot of resources to make NBCs, so not anybody, even with the knowledge, can just do it.
So yes, we're seeing a lot of the same viruses out of the lab because we're using the lab to simulate real life scenarios. With Wuhan/COVID the tards let it loose on accident. But all the forms of the flu out there are constantly changing day by day. We have 4 main types, but generally only care about two, A and B. You, as a farmer, should care about Type D as it's for cattle, yet spills over from them regularly. The reason we see bird flu so much in Asia is the unrestricted movement of poultry, high human populations, and tons of interactions with humans and chickens. It's a breeding ground for it there and it shows in real life. This is why we do GOF. Create the mess, learn how to clean it up before it shows up on it's own and we're several steps behind.
