Gain of function ban was overturned in 2017 by Francis Collins, an Obama appointee still serving as NIH Director, who later lied to Fauci about the Great Barrington Declaration and helped cause millions to die from lockdowns and mRNA. He was reporting to his subordinate Fauci (director of NIAID, one of 27 parts of NIH).
Basically there were deep-state Obama people or deeper who overturned the ban shortly after Trump got elected.
It really boosts the "conspiracy theory" that the virus was created and released to make sure Trump wasn't re-elected, along with Biden saying Trump wasn't ready for a pandemic a month before covid, other elites saying we're due for a pandemic any day now, etc.
Seems it was only ever a policy.
Gain of function ban was overturned in 2017 by Francis Collins, an Obama appointee still serving as NIH Director, who later lied to Fauci about the Great Barrington Declaration and helped cause millions to die from lockdowns and mRNA. He was reporting to his subordinate Fauci (director of NIAID, one of 27 parts of NIH).
Basically there were deep-state Obama people or deeper who overturned the ban shortly after Trump got elected.
It really boosts the "conspiracy theory" that the virus was created and released to make sure Trump wasn't re-elected, along with Biden saying Trump wasn't ready for a pandemic a month before covid, other elites saying we're due for a pandemic any day now, etc.