Her'e's a piece of advice for you. Don't talk as if you know what happened because as new information comes out, which it is, you just look stupid. There's was some new documents released under a foia that seem to indicate there was experimentation going on and some scientists say it is definitely gain of function and Fauci is playing word games. It doesn't appear those experiments would have caused covid but it sure does look like they were doing stuff many would say they shouldn't have been. Not sure why you would believe those types of people when they clearly have an ulterior motive and the initial paper that came out saying covid wasn't man made, was bullshit (and headed by Daszak who would clearly want to cover his ass). If you read it objectively you would see they were only looking for specific types of markers which wouldn't exist in GoF. In addition, they even said, although it was pretty damn subtle, that they couldn't rule it out. But because of Trump, the media and everyone automatically labeled it a conspiracy theory. Bottom line, everything about this smells bad and the more they try and obfuscate the worse it looks. At the end of the day though, whether they were doing GoF or not, if it was funded or not, it doesn't matter. It was probably an accident and the question now is whether or not that sort of research should continue. There's a reason it had been put on hold for awhile.