The flu doesn't backup entire hospitals because of the quantity of people that need to be admitted. And that's because the symptoms are way nastier than the flu.In terms of control, COVID-19 is the flu and once mass hysteria dies down we're going to treat it like the flu. There will be a yearly shot available for that year's most likely variants - some people will get the shot and some people won't. We're going to have yearly deaths from COVID just like we do the flu, shingles, etc... but life will go on and return to normal.