I really could be missing something here, but this paper sets off alarm bells for me. This is what it looks like to me: Bunch of wicked folks are involved in intentionally creating dangerous pathogens in laboratories. They are publicly expressing worry over "emerging" pathogens in order to get permission and funding for research into these pathogens which they "soup up". Then when a bad "bug" breaches their labs either intentionally or by accident they have a leg up on making a "vaccine" which could (intentionally) be as dangerous or more so than the original pathogen. Then they get to patent the pathogen/bioweapon and get royalties off the "vaccines".
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2622-0.pdf
Back when this was written/published the narrative was THRIVING on the "bat soup crazy" hypothesis. The narrative NEEDED that slant else a paper like this would look about like it does right now, imo.
Please tell me I'm wrong about this.