There were no cases of regular influenza in New Zealand this Winter. The shutdown and extra precautions for the prevention of Covid had the added benefit of nobody getting sick with flu either.

It means we're ****ed.
Called it.

Time Of The Season
The Zombies
It's the time of the season
When fevers run high
And this time, give me six feet
And let me try, with a fabric mask
To take you in a hug ( when you ask )
To show you every drug
It's the time of the season for COVID
Don's your name?
Trump's your daddy?
( He rich ) Is he rich like me?
Has he taken, any time ( any time )
( To Tweet ) to Tweet you what you need to live
Tell it to me slow ( tell me what )
I really want some blow
It's the time of the season for COVID
Don's your name?
Trump's your daddy?
( He rich ) Is he rich like me?
Has he taken, any time ( any time )
( To Tweet ) to Tweet you what you need to live
Tell it to me slow ( tell me what )
I really want some blow
It's the time of the season for COVID
"Once more, Ackbar will rule the Galaxy, and… we shall have Peace."

Check this out,
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/26/906323250/from-the-global-south-hints-that-u-s-may-be-spared-flu-on-top-of-covid-19
This seems to be both good and bad news if we assume it will be replicated in the north. No flu means we won’t be facing epidemic or dual flu and cv19 cases. Seasonal, however, means covid will be back for more.
Stop.

What happened in the Southern Hemisphere during our spring and summer months?
Stop.

There is a real chance it could be. When it first hit the rise in cases was massive, but it dropped considerably over the spring and summer. Perhaps it wasn't entirely due to social distancing measures but due to a change in the weather. Social distancing hasn't been strictly adhered to for some time and yet we still aren't seeing anywhere near the rapid rise in cases that we saw when the virus initially. With COVID in many more locations than it was in March, you would expect those numbers to be increasing even faster. This fall and winter could be bad.

how do they know that when the pandemic hasn't even been around for at least one winter?
Unless cold weather means everyone huddles together in small places. Then again, businesses are limiting the number of customers allowed in the store. So, is the virus behaving differently than it was over the spring and fall months?

I'm guessing that you're just trolling me now, but no way, Billy Bob!
America has overcome
WAY more difficult
situations than this. Remember,
600,000
Americans were killed in the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1917. Compared to that, the Chinese Flu is
peanuts.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

It could destroy America, Movie Man.
Stop.

I didn't save it was good. It's a challenge like any other. America has never shrunk from a challenge. This is a challenge like all others, and as always, we will meet it and
beat it!
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

Okay. Lots more people will be put out on the streets and committing suicide but as a whole we will be okay further down the line. Lots more people will be without work, further entrenching the young into long term underemployment and unemployment. Sorry but none of this is good. Survivable but not good.
Stop.

Not in your lifetime we won't.

We've survived much worse, and we'll not only survive this, we will thrive!
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

Issue is economic. We are ****ed if this thing is seasonal and we are entering another surge which would invariably lead to spring ‘20 styled lockdowns in some states. We’d enter recession for sure, and the partry safety net currently in place cannot support the currently unemployed. Add to them millions more and welcome to economic meltdown 2021.
Stop.

No we're not.
Eventually, despite the idiot politicians, we'll develop
"herd immunity"
, like we have for most other diseases, and we'll be okay.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

I guess we just wait and see. Winter in NZ didn't seem to see a great upsurge in cases like your graph shows, but I think it's here to stay forever now. I hope that it's not
just the first of a string of new viruses that are starting to emerge.