I have to say my knowledge of virology is close to non-existent, though I've long thought our efforts in that area would generate both positive and negative consequences. The old apple from the tree of knowledge issue.

As you say though, it's all connected and here is an effort of mine, to try and connect some of the dots;

https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0

We do live in interesting times.