I fail to understand what the real reason is for doing this.

We see no compelling scientific reason to re-create the virulent virus.

There's every indication and every reason to presume that if this sucker gets out, it could be equally devastating - as it was in 1918.

There's every indication and every reason to presume that if this sucker gets out, it could be equally devastating as it was in 1918.

There's no reason to do it. What happens if other countries start doing it? What happens if there's an accident?

Obviously, that contradicts what most people were led to believe when the results of the 1918 experiments were published,