People used to say if you got sick from COVID and weren't vaccinated you should die, and if you had hesitations about getting the vaccines you should die. They were psychotic, and it turns out the vaccines aren't this cure-all they acted like they were.
A lot of the "Long COVID" people that people mock are pretty critical of vaccines themselves, they're not all hypochondriacs like people think they are. Most of them got sick in 2020, and say that the vaccines make no difference in helping them.
COVID is real and can harm you and the vaccines were mediocre, helped some people, and can also harm you. It can be both things.