Why experts are terrified of a human-made pandemic and what we can do to stop it

This seems a tall claim. I would have liked to see details on this.

"At least 20 of those [BSL4] labs have been built in the last decade, and more than 75 percent are located in urban centers where a lab escape could quickly spread."

This seems so stupid to me. Perhaps the designers' hubris plays a role? Frankly, if I were designing it I would want as much defense in depth as I could get in case the design or procedures failed. Placing it in a large urban area seems like a common sense no-no. Put it in the damn desert, where there are few potential hosts and the environment is inhospitable to many of the pathogens.

It’s how life on the planet will end.

In computer terms, once the user is able to corrupt the operating system, it’s lights out.

We have tens of thousands of people on this planet actively designing pathogens… it’s no different than telling your grandma how to access ‘RegEdit’ on windows; it’s only a matter of time before she crashes the entire system.

What better way to make paranoid people more paranoid than to censor what they say? It sure worked for flat earthers but at least they could test their theories at home.