Yes, my own words, but the worst of a cold and the worst of food poisoning (what OP compared the mild covid to) are, IMO totally different. The former is an inc

Yes, my own words, but the worst of a cold and the worst of food poisoning (what OP compared the mild covid to) are, IMO totally different. The former is an inconvenience (headache, a bit tired, constantly runny nose), the latter is a totally debilitating state of never-ending vomiting and/or diarrhea. If you told me I was about to get a cold I would shrug, if you told me I was about to get food poisoning I would be dreading it. There's no way we're going to come to a resolution of this discussion without additional data given our evidently very different experiences of what a cold is. All I can find is sources saying that colds are usually mild. But since this also called "mild covid", that resolves nothing.