If you think of covid as a super flu, you’re not far off.Maybe our traditional flu has morphed to now COVID. It's interesting that flu numbers are non existant and also that COVID numbers sky rocketted around the same months as the typical flu peaks. I know this is not a scientific view but if you look at the numbers it kind of makes sense.
The biology is completely different. Covid can’t mutate into the flu any more than you can give birth to a hippo.
But, in terms of how it affects us, it’s a good model.
The flu is still around. It just can’t spread much in a world of zoom and masks. So it hides out, gets people sick in ones and twos, and waits for us to get back to normal.
Whenever we finally rid of masks and distance, then we will have a proper flu season again.