Do you expect Ebola or Sars to break out of the lab there and overwhelm the base because they are in the same state?
How about the one in Bethesda and the super disease biological warfare lab at Walter Reed and the White house and Capitol within walking distance?
Stupid is stupid wherever you build it.
Are you under the impression that a disease that just casually hopped 5000 miles of water thanks to lax regs cannot breach its way out of a lab and make it a couple hundred? That’s some magical thinking.
DC is in its mess with the labs because people plan poorly.
Oh and it’s out of the lab/never was in it/ and is being power sprayed around by hired cleaning crews with pressure washers under CDC supervision. So pardon my reluctance to trust lab security.