now I understand, and you are probably completely correct. Still, the wording of the article to my mind suggests that they say otherwise. Hopefully there's more material out there to shed some further clarification on it.Well, look, I realize we probably agree on most issues and so before you are done at least understand my point here.
I referenced the monkey thing when mentioning they are doing it a little better than creating a chimera.
However, my point is a lab is in a controlled environment and so the conditions are not the same as nature and the virus therefore will not be subject to the same evolutionary pressures and so will not evolve the same way as it would in a controlled environment. It would be economically useless to create a vaccination for such a variant that would never appear in nature UNLESS there is a way to leak it.
If they are scheming to create and release variants of a deadly virus, somebody needs to be locked away for good.