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"Mortality rate is only one aspect of this bug. It doesn't behave like the flu. The people I know who have had it say it is scary. I know one guy who has rotated through it several times, getting better and then relapsing. Relative healthy guy in his forties. Scared the hell out of him."

You've just captured the essence of Covid, in a nice concise manner. It's not generally a highly lethal virus, but it does some strange things - sometimes in healthy younger people, that is unpredictable. That's why all the hype (in addition to the politicization by the left). I personally believe that you are touching on the truth when you ask if 'this is a designer bug?'. I don't think it was designed, per se, but was the result of gain of function mutations (most specifically to the spike protein - which defines infectivity and range), and that this created a 'funky' virus that has properties you wouldn't expect to see in a rapid evolutionary sense.