amber_fluid wrote:How many of those old people would have died naturally in that period anyway?
Quick google search:
Current annual death rate in Australia = about 160,000 / year.
Current mortality rate of COVID in Australia is 1.9% of known infected cases die.
Current population of Australia is 24.99 million.
If we let it run free and 'let everyone get it'.... at the current mortality rate we would lose (maybe) 475,000 people (assuming, as people seem to wish that we allow everyone to get it quickly ie within a year so that we can get on with things).
Take away the current annual 'usual' death rate of 160k and we would be hitting a mark of an extra 300k deaths in a year.
In Victoria, the mortality rate is currently 2.1%. Who knows what it would be like if the every hospital across Australia where overflowing for many months on end? Worse maybe? unlikely better though.
That seems like a lot of potential people dying ahead of their to me.