The people are already thinning the herd. Their birth rate is one of the lowest in the world. Baby even a 1/3rd of replacement or less.
I’d say it was deliberate. In just about every context apart from nursing homes, there was no risk too small. Cops put up caution tape around the playgrounds. New York City arrested contractors who so much as set foot on a potential client’s property.
Yet when it came to nursing homes, they had to readmit infected patients.