[abb]

ALL diseases target the older, less healthy populations first. Been that way since the dawn of life on earth.

[silverleaf]

Except the diseases we survived over our lifetimes to reach the stage of being old and unhealthy....

[Bon mots]

ALL diseases target the older, less healthy populations first. Been that way since the dawn of life on earth.

Not the 1917/1918 Spanish flu.

It actually took out the young and fit.

[riri]

Additionally, as we are seeing in Europe the young are lingering longer and the old dying quicker.

Also, the first to get it are getting the best care and attention.

[The Antiyuppie]

“ALL diseases target the older, less healthy populations first. Been that way since the dawn of life on earth.”

Not entirely true. The 1919 flu outbreak, for example.

[Badboo]

Absolutely wrong. Until Pasteur proposed the germ theory of disease, medical care wasn’t available for what killed generations of babies, toddlers, and children since the dawn of time. In the 16th and 17th Century the following was normal.

“Demographers estimate that approximately 2% of all live births in England at this time would die in the first day of life. By the end of the first week, a cumulative total of 5% would die.Another 3 or 4% would die within the month.A total of 12 or 13% would die within their first year.With the hazards of infancy behind them, the death rate for children slowed but continued to occur.A cumulative total of 36% of children died before the age of six, and another 24% between the ages of seven and sixteen. In all, of 100 live births, 60 would die before the age of 16.”

https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/media/pdf/edmaterials_demographics.pdf

Visit really old cemeteries and it is easy to see.