I am surprisingly unaware of any friends or family who have died, though I know people who have been gravely ill and recovered or lost family themselves. Luckily my closest friends were all just as eager to get the vaccine as I was.
Maybe that's why I can post jokes, I'm glad people seem to take them in the way they are intended, dark/morose/gallows humor but it also reflects how infuriating it can be to argue with anti-vax types, which I've gotten to do in person too many times. One dipshit felt the need to yell from his car at a line of people at Starbucks about masks and CO2... I yelled back something about surgeons wearing them through 8-hour operations but it was pointless... and there is a part that welcomes how targeted the current wave is in America but knows that it affects far more than the profoundly stupid.