The trick is you don't need to make it go away you just need to prevent wide-enough-use-to-cause-destabilization-of-the-thing-you-like.
The thing with viruses is that usually they are helpful inasmuch as they prevent clones with correlated weaknesses from taking over the biosphere (that's why they exist imo), but since the clones is US now, viruses is bad, and advancing their evolution on purpose is like simulating a world where our population is x times larger in order to get what a little more information about how viruses is bad for us?
idk seems like simple stuff.. govt should not be paying money for things that are bad for humans. voters are all humans after all.
That's why any hint of scientists suppressing or discounting evidence for a covid lab leak is absolutely devastating for science in the long wrong btw.. imagine the worst case scenario: scientists scrambling to hide the fact that they accidentally leaked a horrible virus into the world; hiding it so that they can continue creating pandemic-worthy viruses for a few paltry research dollars. essentially putting a 2nd mortgage on the house to buy baseball cards and then losing all the paperwork till the bank shows up.
and it's exactly as embarrassingly immature as the above, because the question we really need to focus on is: can a lab leak of a GoF virus happen, what will the consequences be if it does, and should we be paying money to support that risk/reward profile?
kinda like AI; when we're doing the P(x)*v calculation, all we need to know is that v is negative big and that the number of plays is large; at some point P(x) stops mattering.
