The "new normal" in movie theaters...

The virus, its spread, and the effects it had on global health were as virtually near to identical as can be; it was the public and media response to it that were radically different from now.

The quoted article makes the point that Woodstock did not occur at the peak of the flu's season, but although it attempts to suggest that covid-19's death rate will be higher than the 1 million who succumbed to H3N2, it gives no hard data or even estimates to back this assertion, and it gives absolutely no data explaining why covid-19 is somehow 'different' from H3N2.