The other side of the "reason" for it are the bureaucrats who approve the funding / steer the grants - they have equally insane reasons. Those people do it because they want to control flows of funds and no one will question funding that goes towards "pandemic prevention".
It doesn't need to actually prevent pandemics, merely be plausibly connected to implant fear in anyone approving the funding - "what if I cut this off and there is a pandemic?"
One formula piece the press always produces is "budget cut causes disaster".
This is so attractive to the press that they'll produce this story even when there is no actual budget cuts - notice how you generally have an idea that every story will have a quote from an official about how "in these times of austerity / budge cuts"
In summary, the entire machine is insane and it is cut off from feedback because noticing the machine has done something insane is an anathematized position that puts the noticer outside the "mainstream".
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The reality of course is that this tweet isn't sincere - it's one part bait for her idiot simps "oh, I would treate you with the respect you deserve m'lady" and one part woman bragging - "high powered, successful, together men lose it around my raw sexual power"
There's a third level to this tweet of hers.
Women *really* like werewolf men - tend to fall uncontrollably in love with them and no woman want to be abandoned over and over again by men she's fallen for.
That's got to leave a massive gaping wound on her soul.
The system compulsively cultivates "expert opinion" in every area - co-opting the consensus to ensure that it is always pro-expansion of regime power in one way or another and the only valid opinion in an area.
See the recent N Wade piece about the lab leak hypothesis
What was the system doing? In one sense box ticking - the system needs to be thought of as serious so it funds some research that it can plausibly describe as being done to "prevent pandemics"
We have a woke capital problem because limited government conservatives failed to curtail the infinite morass of regulations on corps because they were afraid to attack anti-discrimination regulation.
Now it's been used as a weapon to ensure that corps never displease the left.
The dating market entirely reflects women's preference for a very simple reason - dating apps live and die by getting women to sign up for them; no women -> no men, no app so they cater to women and have to cater better to women than alternatives like free drinks.