Just out of curiosity, where do you live?
I live in Italy and four friends of my parents died of COVID, and I met all of them. My parents are in their eighties.
Washington state in the US, which is near the bottom of US states in COVID deaths per capita (133.9 per 100k). Here's a graph [1]. In EU terms, we'd be right between the Netherlands (124.1 per 100k) and Germany (139.3 per 100k) on deaths.
Within most states in the US COVID rates (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) vary quite a bit from county to county. My particular county has had 98.0 deaths per 100k, which would put us between Israel (90.7 per 100k) and Turkey (102.1 per 100k).
I'm old enough to not have older living relatives (my parents were fairly old when I was born) so that greatly cuts down on the number of living older people I've met leaving probably just former older coworkers that I'm not in contact with and whose deaths I'd probably not hear about.
My current company went full work from home a couple of years before COVID, and I think that everyone who works there is the type whose hobbies and other personal interests are mostly things done at home except for one guy, so it was pretty easy for most of us to largely avoid other people during the phase of the pandemic when vaccines were not available. There is one person who is into outdoors activities like hiking and climbing and camping, but I believe when he does those usually the only other people who are around are his family members.
Most ex-coworkers I'm still friends with would have taken good precautions, and they live and work in areas where the region as a whole took good precautions. I do have one ex-coworker friend who lived in a high COVID/minimal precaution state, and then moved to an even higher COVID/minimal precaution state, but he's in a city and county that takes it more seriously, and was eligible for vaccination early, so he's been fine.
My friends who aren't coworkers or ex-coworkers are mostly people I met in college. They almost all have an excellent understanding of science (the college was Caltech) and will have taking appropriate anti-pandemic measures.
Putting it all together, the result is that I don't know of any friends or acquaintances that had COVID, and if any of their friends did it wasn't a serious enough case for them to mention it to me.
I have had a couple people who came to my house to install or repair things who told me that they had had COVID.
