What an awful thing to say. You have any older people in your family? Think about them before you throw this kind of callous crap around.

This is seriously one of the worst things I've ever read on HN...

What a horrible way to look at things.

> If there is any 'plus' to this situation, its that Coronavirus will rapidly de-age many Western countries.

Jeez this is cold

I think many people will view a financial struggle to ensure the square deal of old and retired as a plus to modern democracies, and the burden of providing for it a desirable burden.

It's easy to hate on the elderly, until you become old yourself.

Absolutely brutal comment

So, 1% of 50 year olds is somehow supposed to be comforting? In today’s world, 50 is... not very old.

Also, not everyone gets diabetes, to take just one example. But the common cold — which this is similar to in many ways — lots of people get that.

Finally, while panic is bad — seriousness is good. And to me, I’m looking at the fact that so far most of the [critical] cases have happened in [China] where there are a lot more ventilator beds per hospital than in a place like the United States. So I think a healthy degree of caution and respect for this novel virus is more than warranted.

Would be interesting to see the normal yearly death rate of these age groups. Is Corona just advancing natural death rates for the old people (i.e. bringing forward by a few months), or do more old people die?

Or in the UK if your parents have not set up their wills properly, potentially land your kids with a large tax bill they have to pay now!

So I guess you hope you'll never get old?

> rapidly de-age many Western countries

We're talking about 10 people dieing in a country now. How would this lead to that? Where's the math?

You're spreading rumors. If it's not your intent to do so, consider deleting your post.

If you want to spread these kind of unsubstantiated claims around, go do it on 4chan or Reddit. It’s not welcome here.