Covid is still killing people at dramatically higher levels than the flu does. I realize that this is awkward for the anti-maskers but sometimes reality is awkward... My best friend had covid in the summer of 2020 when she lived in NYC during the first big wave there. Her only symptoms at the time were loss of taste and smell. A month after she thought she'd recovered she developed long covid. The headaches. The fatigue, etc. She has been dealing with it ever since. Three and a half years of not being able to walk more than a half block down the street before becoming exhausted.