-The retrospective triumph of anecdote over fact. Here's what happened in little over month:
Number of acute hospital beds in each NHS region occupied by COVID-19 patients on 1 December 2020 and 12 January 2021
https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/major-reports/covid-19-insight-7-hospital-bed-occupancy-designated-settings
We were all petty much aware here of what was happening at the time and indeed Dan helped keep us informed as to what was going on at the hospital work face. You can look it all up in the archives.
As I recall the most adamant believer that it was "all a hoax" and who refused any innoculation was Rhisiart and indeed he was the only individual known to me from here who probably died of Covid complications: though not before apparently recanting his previous views on Covid as quite mistaken.