The conspiracy theory that masks and social distancing are the reasons why we have less flu but more covid (based on the false assumption that Covid is “more transmissible” than flu) is pure hogwash.
The ENTIRE rationale for requiring masks, distancing, and lockdowns upon HEALTHY people (for the first time in human history) and not SOLELY on SICK people, is BASED ON THE THEORY THAT ASYMPTOMATIC PEOPLE WILL TRANSMIT THE VIRUS on others. Well, guess what, the CDC has just shot that theory down....
There’s asymptomatic and there’s presymptomatic and you would have to be dumber than a box of hammers to think that all the extreme measures we have taken against Covid wouldn’t have an even greater impact on a less trsnsmissible virus. My employer literally mandated we get the flu Vax this year. It was not an option. and look at everything else we have done. Of course this is why flu cases are down.