Most of the older folks who died with covid-19 already had multiple comorbidities, so probably were ripe for death anyways. Covid-19 being 10 time more contagious than flu, even though covid-19 is not a serious disease, it finished them off.
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Perhaps I am misreading your post...”ripe for death,” “finished them off” ...Kind of an “Easy come, easy go” comment. Not sure how you define “older” (When I was 20, my my definition was far different than at 40 or 60). Regardless of their age, “older” people have loved ones and physicians who hopefully don’t consider them ripe for death, etc.
I know a 63ish-year old woman who was in ICU for 8 weeks and then rehab (in-patient) for at least a month. She is home now working back to where she was prior to COVID.
Tho few people list comorbidities in their Christmas News Letter, I was not aware of any that she had. I would not describe her as “ripe for death!” Actually, she had recently retired.
So it can be serious for some who aren’t “ripe for death.”
My definition of ripe for death would be combination of 2 or more of these comorbidities: serious heart disease, advanced diabetes, extreme obesity, cirrhosis of liver, bad kidneys, COPD in lungs, advanced stage-4 cancer.