There is also of course the question of methodology. Covid in it's most dangerous forms only existed for about a year. The flu and all of it's variants have existed for decades. The collective understanding of their relative risk to society are not even close to the same quality. Covid has a much smaller data set, and for that reason is guaranteed to have a much worse signal to noise ratio when it comes to predictive potential and policy making.
The fact that essentially everyone who still wears a mask has a predictable political lean should be a massive red flag that this entire debate is hardly about science or biology anymore, and really never was.
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