No, no, you see, social distancing, masks, etc. were effective at stopping the regular flu virus but we didn't do them hard enough to stop the kung flu virus! We totally didn't just classify virtually every respiratory illness as covid for the last year and a half to artificially inflate the numbers and drive people into a panic in order to seize more governmental control.

The doublespeak just makes my head hurt, but too many people are sadly dumb enough to buy it.