Providing protection but not security.
Isn’t that cute?
Technicalities aside, you make a good point. The world was asleep while potential doomsday viruses were being engineered.
Fruit bats didn’t just fly hundreds of miles from the jungle into a highly industrialized zone like Wuhan.
When this is over, there will be a massive day of reckoning for the globalists who allowed China to develop this stuff.