[tshaddox]

If a large portion of the people who contracted COVID are removed from the set of people who could have potentially exposed me to the flu, doesn't that decrease the likelihood of me contracting the flu regardless of whether I contracted COVID?

[ineedasername]

Removing those people removes, relatively, an extremely small portion of the population. You are removing roughly 10% of the population in the U.S., or 2% worldwide. This does not explain the magnitude of the decrease observed for the flu.

Is it that hard to believe that not being around other people limits the chance of getting sick from other people?

[ryankemper]

> You are removing roughly 10% of the population in the U.S., or 2% worldwide.

These numbers seem way too low if you're talking about the prevalence of people that have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2.