That says it all....he’s a mad scientist!! Add Bill Gates...and they will dictate the population.
Fauci has been a strong proponent of GOF for many years before 2017. Personally, I think that Fauci’s ego is driving him to join the top tier of famous disease fighters (Pasteur, Jenner, Walter Reed, Salk etc) with breakthrough MRNA vaccines that can be synthetically mass-produced for vaccines very rapidly after new disease outbreaks.
But instead of waiting for natural zoonotic outbreaks, the big proponents of the synthetic MRNA vaccines wanted to play with new man-made viruses, in order to more rapidly develop the vaccines, so they used GOF to create new viruses to accelerate the development research process. IOW, he wanted credit for the next great medical breakthrough “on his watch,” before he retires/dies.
This is, I believe, what explains this 2012 Fauci quote:
>>But Fauci was actually a longstanding fan of gain-of-function research despite its deadly risks.
In 2012, he pondered the possibility that, “an important gain-of-function experiment involving a virus with serious pandemic potential is performed” and then badly replicated so that a “scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?”
What was Fauci’s response to a pandemic caused by dangerous gain-of-function research?
“Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”<<
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/new-emails-cast-light-faucis-coronavirus-cover-daniel-greenfield/