I didn't say that we didn't know anyone that's had covid, I said that in the first few months it was hard to find anyone who had had it, or anyone who knew anyone that had had it.I don't believe it is true that we don't know anyone who had Covid but we all know someone who has become seriously ill or died from the vaccine.
My job means I have seen the reality of Covid and it also means I know a hell of a lot of people who have been vaccinated and yet I haven't heard of anyone dying or becoming seriously ill from it.
I'm not saying nobody has but we need to keep it in perspective.
From my personal experience, which will be hugely different from someone in the NHS dealing with it, I didn't know of anyone who had it until September/Oct when it started to ramp back up again.
My husband ended up with nearly 100 people at his work testing positive over winter. Thankfully none of them needed hospital and all were fine.
I work with predominantly over 80s and only 2 people caught it, and then it was whilst in hospital, one recovered completely but died later (not covid) and the other is absolutely ok.
I'm not saying covid doesn't exist at all, and I'm not saying that the vaccine is affecting more people - statistics say that's just not true.
I have argued in a balanced way on this thread for a long time, and I have said numerous times that we can't on one hand put deaths that were nothing to do with covid down as covid, and not allow people to blame, or at least be allowed to question the vaccine also being a cause of death or serious reaction like a stroke for example.
Just because you haven't heard of anyone suffering badly from the vaccine doesn't mean it's not happening, the same as me not knowing anyone who had covid at the start didn't mean it wasn't affecting people