I'm 68. I avoided Covid throughout the acute phase (no sane treatments), but had one friend die and a number of friend's of friends passed as well.
When your circle is made up of younger, lower risk people, you will of course hear of less carnage.
I finally got it after being vaccinated. I called my doc and got Paxlovid on the way, feeling worse and worse. When the Paxlovid finally arrived I was having trouble breathing, even with my CPAP machine.
Took the Paxlovid and my breathing slowly got better. I fell asleep for 18 hours(!) and woke up feeling like I had a bad flu. I was seriously considering the hospital for a while.
Before you say anything about vaccine's effectiveness, the vaccines only helped with one of your bodies defense mechanisms. Big problem with Covid was that it had many ways of fooling your body's immune responses. Thus, you had a huge viral load by the time your immune response started and the result was often a cytokine storm. Your runaway immune response was the big issue.
The vaccines gave you antibodies which allowed you to recognize Covid much sooner and fight it off properly.
IMO, the vaccines and the proven treatment of Paxlovid likely saved my life.