I love how the Longtermism people won't shut up about this without having one single clue what they're actually talking about.
As though virus particles spontaneously pop into existence when you mix the right DNA strands together (a process that gets wildly expensive beyond a couple hundred basepairs and is destroyed if the proteins on your fingers get anywhere near it).
That's notwithstanding the fact that you can't just turn a dial labelled "lethality" to produce a gene sequence.
The expense seems to have gone down enough in recent years that there are too many sketchy biolabs mixing a lot of base pairs together. Or doing other kinds of things to cross breed these bugs.
As though virus particles spontaneously pop into existence when you mix the right DNA strands together (a process that gets wildly expensive beyond a couple hundred basepairs and is destroyed if the proteins on your fingers get anywhere near it).
That's notwithstanding the fact that you can't just turn a dial labelled "lethality" to produce a gene sequence.