[nicoburns]

I don't have solid experimental data on this. But my own experience was that I went into the pandemic assuming that I was young (I'm 28) and that covid likely wouldn't affect me too badly, I then catch it quite early on (Apr 2020), and come out of the initial infection finding that exercise causes me heart pain and fatigue to the point that I sometimes actually fall asleep immediately afterwards (this has gradually improved over time, but is still quite restrictive on activities that I am able to do). And now almost 2 years later this is still affecting me. I wasn't expecting this at all. I was expecting to be able to continue with my life as usual.

I don't know about you, but I've never heard of a young person getting these kind of symptoms from flu. Other viruses like Glandular Fever are known to cause these kind of affects of course. Based on this I rather suspect that the reason there is more media focus on long-covid than long-flu is because covid is causing a lot more post-viral symptoms than flu does. That doesn't mean there is no media focus factor, but I don't think it's the main driver.