The Lack of Viral 'War Memorials'

I agree with Jonathan Freedland, that it is remarkable how quickly we humans tend to forget human deaths generated by disease, whereas war dead are routinely commemorated (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/29/history-forget-pandemic-spanish-flu-covid). The First World War (1914-1918) generated about 17m human fatalities and there are memorials to the event, in thousands of little villages and towns in Europe and elsewhere. On the other hand, the 'Spanish 'flu' epidemic of 1918, killed between 50 and 100m people and yet has virtually no monuments. Freedland points to a view that humans (story-telling animals) like linear stories with heroes and villains. Human wars lend themselves to this, whereas disease pandemics do not (the virus is a 'faceless', invisible 'enemy'). Like Freedland, I believe this is a mistake. If pandemics are really so dangerous (and the UK death toll already exceeds 100,000), we really ought to remember them (so we put effort into stopping the next one). It would also be sad not to remember the 'victims' of the current pandemic (especially as the normal mourning process has been curtailed). Perhaps, we should recognise that viruses can be more dangerous to human life than our conspecifics?