Its #2, without a doubt. I got it, and its a much different experience than the flu. C-19 knocked me out for almost 2 straight days, but after that I was basically fine. It damaged my wife's sense of smell though, she still doesn't fully have it back. Ironically, she didn't get sick like I did. Unlike the flu, its hitting different people in different ways. The flu always seems to lay you out for almost a week, and in my opinion is WORSE than c-19, but since people know what to expect the wannabe tyrants couldn't use it to scare people into submission. Example: every specially named flu of the past century. Nobody cares.

Its also definitely blown WAY out of proportion, but since they have their mouthpieces in the news media worldwide, they can just relentlessly push their bullshit without consequence. Its why we're where we are.