Comment by pacala

The disease does not affect age groups equally. From what I've seen, most victims are in the 60+ age groups. From NYC fatality report [0]:

    0-9: 1 0%
    10-19: 6 0.1%
    20-29: 56 0.4%
    30-39: 227 1.6%
    40-49: 535 3.7%
    50-59: 1410 9.8%
    60-69: 2863 20.0%
    70-79: 3811 26.6%
    80-89: 1753 25.4%
    90+: 12.2%

Think of people having a "vitality score" that decreases with age, and of disease as a stressor that kills people with the "vitality score" under a certain threshold. That's how the yearly flu works, by culling people under the threshold. We attribute the death to "the flu", but we could easily also call it "death by old age".

Most working age people will be just fine. Except they are jobless. Terrible times.

[0] https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...