You speed up this type of development you exponentially ratchet up the risk! This was poorly poorly communicated to the public. Trump clearly dismissed these risks. I guess he bought into the PR that COVID was the Black Plauge so high risk was acceptable. Was his germophobic personality quirk played? Maybe? (If he really has such a phobia.) Also, Fauci as a player\messenger had a poor track record! Remember the hype we were all going to get AIDS? That was Fauci! Does no one remember the 1980s? Didn’t anyone in his administration do 15 minutes of research on Fauci? It would have e shown him to be a serial exaggerator! Maybe people were afraid to tell Trump? Maybe they’re afraid to tell him to shut up about the vaccine. Apparently there’s a quote of him claiming it should be called a Trump-ccine!
Trump was clearly right in the middle of all the scheming, his followers are just in denial about it. He trotted Fauci out on stage everyday in front of us, while we already knew that Fauci was behind gain of function and the virus to begin with. Trump surely knew as well, but still won’t discuss gain of function at all.
Most people don’t know it, but Trump even offered Bill Gates the role of Chief Scientist for the White House.
President Trump tried to say ‘You’re hired’ to Bill Gates