I agree with what you say. But I finally have an excuse to break out the cool image that is a representation of COVID RNA:
That's it. That's the whole thing. ~30 kilobases. That image, put together as an RNA sequence, made for a world plague. I don't know about anyone else but it scares me how a 200 x 200 pixel image could contain enough information to do that.
What it really calls for is serious investment into healthcare and antiviral research. But that isn't military spending.