[AntonStratiev]

The people who are going to die are already in very poor health. The median age of deaths in Italy is 80 from yesterday's data. [1]

Previously it has been communicated that 99% of deaths are to people with existing health problems.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...

There are two people in my life I expect to die of the virus: my sister who is in her late 20s, with a lifetime history of Anorexia/Bulimia, who is currently in stage 5 kidney failure. Secondly my Aunt, a lifetime smoker, who currently has terminal lung cancer.

Both of these people, speaking personally, are going to die sometime this year. Will their deaths be accounted against the Coronavirus death toll or to their underlying conditions?

Is there any point to shutting down everything for 18+ months so that they can live another few months, doing so under lockdown conditions and general panic, with nobody able to visit them? And at the end of it all, many of the people who care for them will be unemployed.