[ncalburt]

Did you just seriously
nonchalantly post that ?
A million dead .
Mostly elderly .
Lets worry about money .
Are you for real ?
A million dead would cause civil unrest .
Why are the elderly so worthless ?

[Thud]

A million dead, mostly elderly, will not cause civil unrest. The prediction of the Imperial College London study which has been frequently linked in these CV threads was that two million Americans (mostly elderly) would die if the state and national governments do nothing, and one million if they do the best which can be reasonably expected of them.

What might cause civil unrest will be the clogged medical system nationwide during the year that all this will be going on.

China's solution to the latter problem is to deny medical care entirely to the elderly, and provide only basic medical care to younger CV victims, i.e., generally outpatient-only. Except, of course, for the politically connected who are hospitalized and get first call on ICU's and ventilators.

Like I said earlier, this is a bad time to be old in China. We'll get interesting stories out of there when this is over and China lets foreigners back in.