I had covid in the winter of 2020/21 and it was tolerable at the very worst. I had fever and some cough and body aches but I would not describe it as pure hell. I sometimes think people exaggerate how unpleasant it was number one because it was a long time ago and number two they want sympathy and number three they are pu&&ie&.
May be I called it pure hell because I have not been sick in 15 years. Not even a simple cold. Can’t even remember when I had a cough last. So it was a shock to be hit so suddenly where I had trouble walking, body aches all over, feverish feeling even though the fever never excceded 100F, and that horrible unrelenting cough which made my diaphram muscles hurt with every cough. It felt like pure hell due to the suddenness of the atatck, but very lucky those severe symptoms disappeared in 48 hours. There must be anti-bodies present in large quantity to accomplish that.