I have had Covid at least 2 times and influenza once in the last 2 or 3 years. The influenza is the one that knocked me on my ass and sent me to the doctor thinking I might have something more wrong with me. Covid was meh, not worse than any other sickness the toddlers bring home.
I'm willing to bet most people would pick a Covid reinfection over Influenza. That's not even minimising covid (although with such robust population immunity, now is the time to stop making such a unique deal about covid and to stop freaking out about every single variant) - it's simply that the flu is not a mild disease. Influenza is a horrible virus.
