@Moon For me the hardest part is to get people to understand: "Escaped from Lab" != Weaponized Strain. If it were, the pandemic would have been *much* worse.
Also "lab" here could be a government or an academic lab. Further, it seems plausible that at least a few grad students have at home biology labs. That could also be a factor — who knows. (Can some actual biology students comment on such a setup? I'm analogizing from IT where at home labs are pretty common.)