I hate that “it WOULD have been worse!” Excuse.
They have no idea.
This disease is rather random.
Trust me. My whole immediate circle got it amongst ourselves. My hubby and I and cousin were all hit pretty heavily with the fatigue a good while, but never even went to a doc. None of 5 of us went to a hospital, and we all got well within 2 weeks, including my elderly mom. In some ways, it was bad, but in others, we still recall other illness we had that was much worse.
My MIL is the only one I know who was hospitalized and who died. Out of quite a few of our family and friends.
So, most of us might say it wasn’t much different from a bad cold or flu. YMMV.
Yep, I keep hearing that too. Got Moderna in January and February 2021, came down with my annual summer cold in August, 2021. Sneezing fits, sniffling stuffed-up nose, blah and tired. Got tested due to being hospital volunteer. Test came back positive, so quarantined for 10 days. Nearly everybody is telling me - "Good thing you had the vaccine - you would have been a lot worse!" Gag me...