Yes, bad analogy about Los Alamos. I was more thinking about the Manhattan Project days, when even mail was read by sensors before coming or going. Obviously, there were foreigners then, too, but America is and always has been a lot less hostile to foreigners than pretty much everywhere, despite the nativism that appears to always be everywhere. I believe that in this case the coverup is not worse than the crime if the only crime is the simple leak. The crime is beyond punishment, as it has been known a long time, and even reported in Shi's own work, that you shouldn't really be messing with SARS. We need to stop doing this type of research everywhere, not just sloppy labs. It took what, 10 years, between when bats were identified as the SARS source and a global pandemic caused by that research? We can't afford to do that all over again in another 10 years.