My understanding of how bacteria and viruses work is hat they create a favorable environment for themselves which turns out to be unfavorable for another bug.
They also monopolize the food supply.
Both those things together makes it much more difficult for another strain to get established.
So, flu viruses are weaker than rhinoviruses and coronaviruses, or at least have too weak of an army to successfully invade their territories, so to speak?
Hypothetically, what if this year’s flu strain turns out to be a particularly virulent one and deadlier than most, but we never come to know this because coronavirus keeps it at bay?
“My understanding of how bacteria and viruses work is hat they create a favorable environment for themselves which turns out to be unfavorable for another bug.
They also monopolize the food supply.”
Your understanding is wrong.
That happened with H1N1... it was practically the only strain that year IIRC
“My understanding of how bacteria and viruses work is hat they create a favorable environment for themselves which turns out to be unfavorable for another bug.”
Not exactly. Virions destroy their host cells.
“They also monopolize the food supply.”
Virions don’t eat.