The Sars Covid virus probably does hit seniors a fair bit harder, but that’s useless to the MSM and the government powergrabbers. They only care about excuses to shut things down, control people, and to tax and spend more. As far as the government is concerned, seniors are nothing but an expense on the books.
My feeble, unvaxxed, 85-year-old mother with COPD caught the dreaded Delta variant a couple of years ago, and was barely affected (a modest headache overnight). I got her on Ivermectin and vitamin D, and within 2 hours of testing positive I got her the antibody injections.