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A lot of the loudest lab leakers were arguing in bad faith and just incidentally might have been right somewhat I think. The origin of the virus almost certainly was from the exotic animal trade, which remains an existential threat to health, as it brings endangered animals to extinction for cures that don't work, and dredges up new viruses.
That said, we should leave well enough alone after we find these things. These gain of function tests of viruses are reckless even with proper lab security. The sad truth of the matter however, is that for military purposes we dig up these viruses and find ways to weaponize them for doomsday viruses, along with vaccines.
One would think we already have doomsday covered but it's like collecting billions of dollars it's never enough I guess.
I as well heard the lab leak proponents talking about proof it's been weaponized, and read that's incorrect, idk all the details I stopped following it after a while. But the lab leak people are out of their minds, a good share of them, the joe rogans of the group are cynical and delusional manipulators with an axe to grind to be sure. But we should use this as a wake up call to put more of a leash on bio weapons programs, even if the escaped virus here was not that, half the reason it was brought to the lab from some unfortunate pangolin in the first place was the desire for new bio weapons.
We aren't in need of new doomsday weapons we have plenty already. And we need to focus more on lab security of all such projects, here in the US we have gotten lucky with communicable diseases escaping bio controlled facilities as well. People assume we run secure operations and it's not necessarily true unfortunately.