The right to discriminate

[Ciderpress]

I've made this point a million times but I'm happy to make it again:

The flu kills lots of immunocompromised people, just like covid. Children are actually more at risk of serious illness from the flu than covid, which remarkably, barely affects most children. The method of transmission is essentially identical, the average morbidity is roughly the same.

Why has there never been a push to make everyone wear shitty loose-fitting masks during flu season? Don't you want to save grandma? A good honest response to this question would sound something like: "You know what? Ciderpress, you're right. We SHOULD have been wearing masks all this time, prior to covid, simply to protect against the flu. We were foolish not to, but going forward I will now don both my covid mask and my flu mask.".

I never get that response though, weirdly.