The overall point is spot on, but that doesn't lend any legitimacy to the lab leek hypothesis, which was debunked over and over by actual virologists. Their explanations were highly technical though so everyone's eyes glazed over.
The Hunan wet market was only the first superspreader event. It could have originated elsewhere and been carried there by a traveler.
It took a decade to figure out that SARS originated in bats. Because of the close relationship between SARS and SARS-CoV-2 it seemed like a good place to start.
"Spanish" flu originated in Kansas.
It is also true that the chances of any one individual with few or no risk factors actually getting COVID-19 were always small, so you could "get away with" asserting your individuality and refusing masking and vaccination.
From a public health standpoint it was always true that staggering numbers of people could (at first) then would (when the situation became clearer) die.
But individualism is in the ascendancy to such an extent that we have lost our ability to act as a species.
The carbon footprint bill will soon come due. I fear for us.