> The real deal needs a lab messing around with viruses and whatever happened a few years ago ... and it did not destroy humanity.

That observation maybe holds if the lab from a few years ago correctly selected the virus for the greatest overall lethality (why not MERS or Ebola or something else?) and made its best effort to turn it into a bioweapon. I don't know about you, but I don't think that's quite what happened...