Well, I fully believe that this stuff is like any other respiratory disease. Some will die, some will just get symptoms and be like yeah whatever. Every illness that comes along affects us in different ways because, despite medical science's desire to put everyone in a single "human" box, we're all slightly different. The symptoms I experienced were scary strange. I've never had this kind of loss of taste or smell, I wasn't clogged up like a cold, this was frightening in it's quickness and severity.