Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
The flu transmits somewhat differently than COVID, and is also less contagious.
So yes, if we do all of the extreme distancing, the masking, and the COVID-useless cleaning, that actually does bring the flu numbers down.
But it's also a shitty way to live, especially for something like the flu which only very rarely does permanent damage to healthy young and middle aged adults. COVID is different because it permanently damages (and sometimes kills) a lot of middle aged people, including some healthy ones.