The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned to unending waves of mass infection, death and debilitation with Long COVID.
The problem with this answer is that you go from your anecdata to a sweeping statement about the relevance of public health information.
Plenty of people would really prefer to not get covid and for very good reasons. If you’re having basic cold symptoms, great, not everyone finds it that minimal. Just like how some have bad hay fever and some don’t get the news sometimes reports on pollen levels.
I’m not really downplaying the virus. Just saying that’s there’s a very big difference between contracting the virus now when most people have acquired various levels of immunity and for most it will be much less of a serious infection than it would be at the start when we had no real immunity to speak of, which caused much longer drawn out infections that were far more likely to result in hospital stays.