AFC, I think that the main difference I have with your belief is that it didn't only kill those on deaths doorstep. There were a large number of people who needed high amounts of oxygen and specialized medical procedures to survive. Lots of these people were in their 40s through early 60s. It is easy to say that a pneumonia is an old man's death and that no one lives forever... But it is different if you are telling someone in their mid 50s that there are no more ventilators available so they will likely die gasping for oxygen being unable to suck enough back through their COVID ravaged lungs.
Our healthcare system only really works until we are overrun and this is as close as we have ever come to getting to that point.
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