Is the Trump Administration Blowing It re: Restricting Gain-Of-Function Research?

My view on this, FWIW, hasn't changed much since we first found out about this stuff during the pandemic. That is:

I'm in no position to determine whether the costs of GoFR outweigh the benefits.

But...it seems pretty obvious that, if we are going to do it, we can't farm it out to the third-rate labs of our political enemies...

Who thought that was a good idea???

(Fauci...cough...Fauci...)

(?)

Well, I'm not a big Fauci fan, but it doesn't seem to have been just him.

(Lefties love him...righties hate him...me...well...I actually pretty much tentatively loathe (or possibly loath...I can never remember) him for torturing dogs to death...if that story is true... But other than that, I'm not exactly sure...)

Anyway.

Other than farming out possibly world-killing bioweapons research to incompetent Chinese labs...for all I know, GoFR is actually worth the risk.

But I'm pretty damn skeptical.

But I trust Bhattacharya...so...not sure what to think here.