Diabetes, high blood pressure, respiratory illnesses, etc, these are illnesses that can be managed with proper treatment and the people dying right now could ea

Diabetes, high blood pressure, respiratory illnesses, etc, these are illnesses that can be managed with proper treatment and the people dying right now could easily have decades left of productive life in them. There's also another confounder, which is that the restrictions themselves are helping to keep other diseases in check. Air pollution in large cities for example has significantly gone down. Seasonal flu infections have gone down as well. Any kind of comparison you're trying to make right now is apples versus oranges. Also every prediction for Covid-2019 came true and 10,000 deaths in a single month may not seem high for Italy — even if the medics and nurses crying out of exhaustion should make you think that the shit has hit the fan — but that number could easily go to 50,000 or 100,000 per month, not to mention the young that may not die, but may suffer from respiratory illness for months or years afterwards. And as I said, mortality rate isn't everything that counts, a 10% hospitalization rate cripples the medical system and is a clusterfuck for our economy anyway.