Like your parent said, the difference is the tendency for COVID-19 to eat up all health care capacity. Appendicitis? Stroke? Car accident? Sorry, the hospital

Like your parent said, the difference is the tendency for COVID-19 to eat up all health care capacity. Appendicitis? Stroke? Car accident? Sorry, the hospital is full of COVID patients, we can't take you in. Go home, lie down, see if it gets better. This is the scenario we're trying to avoid. If the flu would do that, we'd have lockdowns for it too.