it was a leak of something that developed in the wild already, so it was only a matter of a few years before it would have emerged naturally anyway. That's why this is all so silly.
Of course labs need strong security protocols. They have them, have had them for a long time, and they're constantly reassessing and strengthening them. Nothing that randos like us on the internet might think about lab protocols is news to any of the people who actually work in this field. They're 30 years ahead of us on all this, they don't need help from the FBI or the media or you or me.
As for the history of "things we're not allowed to talk about," you're mixing up accidental leak hypotheses with the hyper-dumb "bioweapon" hypotheses, and that's what everyone else was doing in those years too. All the more reason that the media (*especially* alternative media), and the public, are simply not equipped to consider these issues. We have better things to be pondering.