I don’t think you’re wrong.

If you look at the JAMA opinion article written by Ezekiel Emanuel and other that someone referenced a couple of days ago, they suggest lumping ALL the respiratory viruses (like Corona, Influenza, RSV, etc.) into one group and act on THOSE “statistics” to decide health strategies. My feeling is, they’d use the mask/vax/isolation/shutdown exercise when the conglomerate reached some “dangerous” level, potentially being able to pull this every year (or at least every election year). 🤦