This is word salad garbage.
This is on the level of saying that exchanging bodily fluids over the internet will cause your microwave oven to become a cyborg. Or something. What? What is a "cyber attack with COVID-like characteristics". That's meaningless. And do cyber attacks have reproduction rates? And is the reproduction rate of the actual COVID-19 the most salient point? Perhaps the infection rate? Or mortality rate? But they want to focus on the reproduction rate?
I don't think these people have any idea what they're talking about.
What I do think is that the US government is planning to take the internet away from us. Because, you know, cyber attacks. And Russia. Definitely Russia. Always Russia.
Simplified: computer viruses spread faster than biological viruses. Well, daah.