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> How did so many elderly get infected? Did the disease simply spread in close quarters where many elderly live? Elderly folks aren’t necessarily out and about drinking espresso and touching surfaces yet alone having younger asymptomatic carriers cough on them.

I was wondering the same thing, but judging by my own country crowds of elderly people is a thing. For example they do not use technology as much as others and tend to concentrate in places that provide alternative means to function without technology.

Another assumption is that touching surfaces is not how the virus spreads. Being within a few meters of carriers, not necessarily coughing, just talking and breathing, is how people catch it. And since masks are not available and dumb propaganda discourages people from using even a piece of clothing to protect them from inhaling droplets, people catch the virus so easily.