I interpret this as answering the question whether all this mask wearing, social distancing, and lockdowning actually works to stop the spread of disease. I think the answer is conclusively that it does.
I interpret this as answering the question whether the covid was no worse than the flu. This shows that the covid was wildly more infectious than the flu.
https://twitter.com/haroldsmith3rd/status/1378056558291079168
No, I don't interpret this as meaning that all the lockdown measures are "worth it". It'd be nice to see more mask wearing during the next flu season, but I don't think we should be trying to the lockdowns necessary to stop the flu in the future.
No, I don't think this proves any single measure, like "masks". The graph shows flu disappearing even before mask wearing became common in the west. Mask probably help, but we don't know how much.
https://twitter.com/pixelexiq1/status/1378059379879026689
BTW, flu still exists. If we report only after the covid pandemic started, we still see data -- it's just that the scale of the graph goes from 50,000 to 500. This year's flu season is less than 1% of the typical year. 
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