[Fomite]

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.