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Covid killed a lot "old people", people well past reproductive age.

• Maursault 4y ago
  Only women lose their ability to reproduce past a certain biological age (as opposed to chronological age), and I think you simply mean "those that didn't have children," of any age. But that is how natural selection works, random mutation during sexual reproduction in response to environmental pressure allowing differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in inherited phenotypic traits. Those that died with or without children were not selected for survival as they usually would not have mutated beneficially after they were already conceived. We call that cancer.