Why haven't we heard from anyone who experienced COVID-19 as a "mild flu"?

Seems like more stories are coming out that are terrifying: 16 days in the hospital, requiring ventilator, feels like you're drowning for days on end, close to death, nurses need to clear your lungs every 2 hours...

If this were so mild in 80% of cases, don't you think we would hear about the mild cases by now? Don't you think we would have heard from those people on social media, Reddit, etc. who would revel in reassuring everyone and a little fame as well?

The reason we haven't is that COVID ISN'T MILD. It's not even moderate. For anyone who gets it, it's a horrendous, incredibly powerful disease, even for "healthy" people (most Americans eat garbage and aren't healthy). Flus do not kill people at the 3% rate. There is no escape, and it's too late to put political pressure on elected officials. The virus will sweep through and you can't run from it. Are you going to live in a van in a small city that uses military force to quarantine you, where there are no beds? Maybe a nice mountain cabin where hospitals are 4 hours a way?

The reason this is horrible is it's the closest anyone alive today has ever come to mass, global misery, where there is no escape (absent private bunker). This is a private, 14-day war on your lungs where there is no army to fight for you, no one can help you. Millions of tiny wars fought to stay alive, each person praying they won't stop breathing throughout the night, only to fight another day. And after all that you can still get infected.