True, true.
We actually lucked out in many respects (well, slim silver linings) due to how the factors came together. One, this was a coronavirus, which has been studied and examined closely for some time. Two, mRNA research and development was as far along as it was when this hit. Three, multiple big countries saw the worth of pouring money and effort into the process of developing vaccines (and thus ended up pulling along those who might have been on the fence). All these factors removed a lot of the typical stumbling blocks and delays to vaccine/treatment development; if this had been a more complex, less-understood virus, or had happened years before, we'd be in a lot deeper doodoo.
To ignore and reject all of that in favor of regurgitating meme-spread nonsense with absolutely no factual bases whatsoever is just ignorance by choice.