I've tried to tell people this and explain the logistics of it and the reasoning they come up with is "we are wearing masks and social distancing and lockdowns prevent it from spreading plus flu vaccines". When you point out they dont work on covid its literally npc meme blue screen of death and topic change.

my friend swears its because "mask obviously work"

she is in fact, a moron

Because the Hong Kong influenza became the Wuhan influenza...er...I mean coronavirus.