It can be frustrating when people compare their experience with you and call you a wimp. I think that phrase was used elsewhere in this thread.
Look at W2R's experience, or Another Reader. They've had different but very serious cases. My case is nothing like theirs. I appreciate them sharing that this isn't "just like a cold." We're all different.
It is the luck of the draw.
The only kerfuffle between DW and myself over the last year was when we had Covid, and she accused me of having a self-centered pity party, and I wasn't giving her enough compassion. After all, we both have it, right?
Well I had fever for 2 more days than her, I lost my taste and smell, and I tested positive for 5 more days than her. Mine was worse, and I accused her of not having compassion.
We eventually made up over it.
It became obvious to her that Covid differs when her sister got it (we all three got it at the same time) and SIL tested positive only 1 day, didn't have a fever, and just had about 5 hours of aches. That was it! Three people, same source (tour bus), three different outcomes.
BTW, if we hadn't gotten SIL to test for it, she never would have known she had it. The only reason she noticed her short lived symptoms was because we "interrogated" her about it.