Pandemic Viruses - What's the Point?

The genoms of potentially very significant pandemic viruses will be put on the open anternet for anybody to find. Tens of thousands of people will be in a position to follow those recipes as soon as they're posted, and animate that virus. Is that an excessively alarmist interpretation? No, it's really not, i'm afraid. And it's worth comparing covet has killed many more people than any single nuclear detonation.