That's an incredibly narcissistic conclusion.
Many of us here know people who have been made extremely ill, or extremely dead by COVID-19.
My wife's friend's brother was hospitalized with COVID-19 early on. He was put on a ventilator and the family told to prepare for his death. Incredibly, he survived, but just barely. It's been nearly two years and he's still in bad shape. He used to jog and play basketball. Now getting up the stairs leaves him out of breath.
My wife has a few colleagues at work who have died.
My friend's wife died of COVID-19.
It just seems incredibly self-centered of you to assume that only your personal experience matters, and incredibly arrogant to assume that you are smarter than millions of scientists, doctors and nurses all over the globe.
But you're strawmanning me. I'm not judging by my experience alone, it is just a single element.
The nature of reality is that every single piece of evidence will support and favour the correct hypothesis over any other, agreed? There cannot be a single piece of evidence, not a single piece, that ultimately favours the incorrect hypothesis. So what we need to ensure is that every single piece available supports and favours our chosen hypothesis.
My personal experience supports the hypothesis that the alleged pandemic is a fraud while seemingly yours doesn't. However, could your experience fit the fraud hypothesis too when analysed carefully? Could it be that while the people you are aware of died or were badly affected by the alleged covid they actually had a bad case of the flu or pneumonia rather than the alleged covid? Deaths from the flu and pneumonia are not uncommon. Kary Mullis, who seemed pretty healthy and was only 74, died of pneumonia in 2019 and as I say my friend, who got a very bad case of the flu in 2019, had a colleague whose mother died of the flu in 2019 ... and she was on a ventilator and was only in her 60s.
If my personal experience was that people were getting sick and dying in a way that seemed different from before, even if I felt the science didn't stand up, that would make me sit up and think, wouldn't it? It would seem to suggest that there is some special illness out there but it doesn't, my own personal experience doesn't contradict my hypothesis and I'd say that your personal experience doesn't necessarily favour the reality of covid because it can be explained another way - that is, that the PCR test is not fit for purpose and people testing positive for covid and are sick are sick with something else. Moreover, you're talking about only a few people. Where's the pandemic?
I will say this though. I do hear of a lot of loss of sense of smell and taste that seems anomalous and these symptoms are being put forward as being a feature of covid. My argument is that the science put forward for the virus and covid is fraudulent and these symptoms can simply be explained by something else even if I don't know what that something else is. It could be that every year or two whatever pathogens tend to be infecting people tend to cause some symptoms more than others and around this time it's loss of taste and smell ... or perhaps it's other reasons but simply because there seem to be a higher incidence of particular symptoms doesn't necessarily favour "covid", we need to account for all the evidence.
Just to add: we were told that there was no cure for covid. If people tested positive for covid but were sick with something else and weren't tested for other possible illness then perhaps those people died unnecessarily because they didn't receive the correct treatment. If they had pneumonia, for example, they might have survived if they'd been given antibiotics. One would hope that this didn't happen but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if it did.
