> How can you explain people getting covid but not the flu when nothing changed when places started opening up? Covid starts from a higher baseline level of ca

> How can you explain people getting covid but not the flu when nothing changed when places started opening up? Covid starts from a higher baseline level of cases, and it has a higher transmission rate. When societies "open up" (resume social contacts; it's more than just government lockdowns), then we'd expect to see covid cases climb before flu cases. In fact, seeing the opposite would be very surprising.