If you've known as many people as I have who've caught it - you would recognize it's a real virus (or something I can't see) that has unique symptoms that don't match the flu. A third of the people who work for me have had it, at this point I can listen to someone's early symptoms and have at least a 75% accuracy at calling whether it's covid or not. By the way - I've known many who've had it, and 100% of them are just fine.