Given that flu vaccine is needed annually, we don’t have nearly the coverage we are trying for with COVID. Hopefully, COVID vaccines (and natural immunity for those who recovered) hold for much longer than flu vaccines, so that we can actually get closer to true herd immunity.

I’m not optimistic we can rid ourselves of COVID completely, but pushing it to the fringes would be great.

The CDC estimates the flu vaccine prevents 6,500 deaths per year in the US. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm#effectiveness

Flu vaccines are less effective than what we're seeing with the covid vaccines as well as they're more of a guess as to what will become the biggest flu variant vs after the fact of the covid vaccines. Not really comparable.