The literary critic Paul Fussell wrote about this in The Great War and Modern Memory and elsewhere. TL;dr: a virus, being non-human and not even a visible part of nature, is hard to narrate or personify, so difficult to tell stories about.
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Where the hell are they getting these takes, guys? These are pure, ahistorical takes. Amazing
Just sophomoric as all hell. Citing Fussell in lieu of a million surrounding texts would give the Cambridge school texts and contexts crowd pause. You love to see it. Like assuming Machiavelli was the only person writing about government, until the next "great name." Wowza
