I personally know 3 people who recently tested positive for Covid they were barely sick, mild fever, loss of smell and taste. Not as bad as a flu.
My son had CoVid in the week plus leading up to Thanksgiving. He started out with body aches, then got a stuffy head. No fever. Then on the third day lost his sense of taste, the next day his sense of smell was gone. He had a very mild cough, and it stayed in his upper respiratory tract. He went for a CoVid test on the 4th day. It came back positive a week later, but by then he had recovered except for his taste and smell. Still has a tiny cough now and again. His doctor released him from quarantine on day 11. He is still mostly staying isolated but will go get groceries now instead of having them delivered.
He lives alone, so the isolation has been very hard on him, as it has others who are in that same boat. He was very much looking forward to being with us and my mother in law for Thanksgiving, but of course, stayed put in his apartment (out of state). We did a couple of FaceTime calls with him over the course of our visit with my MIL. I know it helped him not feel so alone, but we all would have preferred to be together. It just wasn’t in the cards this year.
As you said, this was about the same as any other cold most of us have endured at some point in our lives.