If it were one of those, we wouldn't have all these threads about how it isn't. Most of us would know at least someone who died of it personally. We'd have seen death counts in the millions months ago (remember there are over 7,000,000,000 people in the world and 330,000,000 of them in the US). "It felt like a cold but I was over it in a few days" would be a rare thing to hear.
And we wouldn't need mandates and fingerwagging in our faces to tell us we should isolate ourselves because we'd be doing it; and we'd probably be physically fighting to move up the line for a vaccine.
If it were one of those, we wouldn't have all these threads about how it isn't. Most of us would know at least someone who died of it personally. We'd have seen death counts in the millions months ago (remember there are over 7,000,000,000 people in the world and 330,000,000 of them in the US). "It felt like a cold but I was over it in a few days" would be a rare thing to hear.
And we wouldn't need mandates and fingerwagging in our faces to tell us we should isolate ourselves because we'd be doing it; and we'd probably be physically fighting to move up the line for a vaccine.