Which government? Chinese? you already burned all the WIV records so all is good. US one - jail all the people in chain that led to financing GOF research in China.
If an adversarial government is conducting potentially dangerous research, would you not want to find a way to get your people in the room while they do it? And how would you convince them it was worth letting your people in to observe? There were Americans in the lab until funding for pandemic preparedness was pulled. The fact that we could have had eye witnesses accounts, but for a short sighted repealing of funding is inexcusable.
You've asked a key question. Whether it came from the lab or a wet market, it is China's fuckup. We in other countries can at best punish them for that fuckup regardless of origin, but we have no control over their labs or their wet markets. That is China's problem to deal with.
As scientists, on the other hand, we like to understand things whether or not there is practical benefit.
