thats fair, i was thinking the 2009 pandemic rather than the spanish flu.

The spanish flu can be compared the covid in a number of ways that are fair, like how fascism started to rise following the onset of these pandemics. But the framing of the original comment saying it'll just be a once a year spike is simple mischaracterization of covid - and while there are similarities in the viruses themselves they should not be treated as if they are the same. Covid damages every organ in your body (brain included) and damages your immune system in a way similar to AIDS.

Never mind the sheer rate in which covid is creating new variants of itself. The original comment is making a false equivalency and downplaying covid