Covid absolutely is like the flu in presentation to ordinary people. That's quite literally how the warning was communicated to the general public. Here's quite literally the first sentence from my local health authority's guidance.
Flu and COVID-19
The symptoms of COVID-19 (coronavirus) are like flu symptoms. The main difference is that you usually do not have shortness of breath when you have the flu.
https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/flu/symptoms-diagnosis/
At no point have I said it can't have come from China. I said quite the opposite. I'm saying the first report coming from Wuhan in particular and a single wet market from the thousands in China when the specific virus had already spread internationally anywhere from 3 to 6 months earlier is an absurd thing for you to insist it came from Wuhan originally, and a ridiculous thing to make you say 'most likely from the lab because they were studying bats'. Because yes, you did say it was 'most likely' from the Wuhan lab.
You're trying to paint me as a conspiracy theorist because you like your own baseless conspiracy theory?