My sister was one of those, "They're reporting it, so it must be true" people.
But she saw the light when she went to the ER for a UTI. An empty waiting room, she was seen immediately & one or two beds taken. No patients on gurneys in hallways. No crowded hospital, No one on ventilators, no patients gasping for breath, no meat trucks overflowing with dead bodies, no ambulances in sight.
Nothing like what they show on TV.
I took a friend to the hospital for his scheduled hernia surgery. Again, no crowded waiting room, he was admitted immediately. If it weren't for the masks, no one would know Covid existed.