Whether natural or escaping from a lab, I fully expect a mass casualty disease in my lifetime. We saw what a shitshow covid was, and it wasn't even that bad.
Fast global travel is spreading the endemic ranges of many diseases and make it essentially impossible to stop many diseases depending on the traits of the disease.
A potential lab leak of many types of diseases is more of a threat and will likely kill more people than a limited nuclear deployment. At least with the nuclear issue someone has to push the button. With the lab leak it's almost a certainty that equipment will fail in some unprecedented way, or someone will absent-mindedly violate protocol. It's a lot harder to keep track of a microbe than a warhead.
Fast global travel is spreading the endemic ranges of many diseases and make it essentially impossible to stop many diseases depending on the traits of the disease.
A potential lab leak of many types of diseases is more of a threat and will likely kill more people than a limited nuclear deployment. At least with the nuclear issue someone has to push the button. With the lab leak it's almost a certainty that equipment will fail in some unprecedented way, or someone will absent-mindedly violate protocol. It's a lot harder to keep track of a microbe than a warhead.