Exactly --
Transmission is very hit-and-miss with viruses . . they are frequently defeated by the most superficial layers of natural immunity. They get swept up into various fluids, digested and recycled. Or they run into existing natural immunity. I am convinced a lot of people never got covid because their exposure was caught by cross-immunity from a previous cold. It was very similar to the cold viruses in the corona family.

I always pointed the 'viruses don't exist' crowd to the nextstrain website, where thousands of samples have been sequenced and placed in a cladistic database... It has no effect on them, of course.

In my own experience with it, it was a nasty cold. Couple days of fever, horked up mucus for a week or two ... I'm old, and it was supposed to kill me. Twice in 2022 -- that was my immunization and booster. No thanks, I don't need to participate in their science fair experiment now.

It was not so much of an epidemic as a globohomo power grab.