The yearly flu statistics have NOT been gathered/kept the same way as the C19 stats. For instance, my father died in 1999, at age 85, of heart failure while recovering from the flu. His cause of death was listed as heart failure. This year, under the same circumstances, his death would be attributed to C19, even without being tested for it. There were/are strong incentives for attributing deaths to C19.
Bullsh*t.