Fair enough, I apologize for reading that into your comment. The difference is that COVID is far more deadly than the flu and often requires intensive care, so

Fair enough, I apologize for reading that into your comment. The difference is that COVID is far more deadly than the flu and often requires intensive care, so the impact on families who lose family members as well as the health-care system as a whole is completely different. That's why I think that there's a stronger case to be made that getting vaccinated and wearing masks is a social responsibility. If everyone was vaccinated, then maybe it would actually be "just like the flu", but unfortunately we never got there.