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See, I am not even arguing anything! You try to put words in my mouth, like with the "it should be more deadly" quip, and then get upset about how dare I'm thinking about such things, when I never even did that.
Ok, so maybe I see this wrong. You are not intending to say that. You are just unaware of the consequences of what you say.
Of course its about damn morals. If you don't feel like you are something special on this planet, some Übermensch without the ballast of being a weak part of a human society, you will always have to think about the other human. Why should somebody die for me, is for example a very classic philosphical and moral question. Why should old people die for you?
Are you not intending to grow old? Would be a fair point then. Would you write a pact with Mephistoteles, that you will happily die of the next pandemic virus at a medium age, for... for what anyway? For the economic perspective of your children? Despite you not even knowing at all, if they would profit from that? Or that anybody else would actually profit, except maybe some few people.
"Its natural that older people die, because they did in the past." is a very weak argumentation for somebody, who is on this planet in first place instead of dying before or during birth or within the first 10 months of his life. Which is because medicine prevented it for most of us. Also, old people, as you might notice, are not useless. And have quite many years left to live, without COVID-19 happening. Also, its also natural that more women die at young age - because without medicine, any birth can be the last. Does that justify to let women die?
So, discussing about some historic circumstances is just luxury for people who have too much time. We are not living in the middle ages, where a simple microbe can kill millions quickly until somebody finds out how to prevent this. We are not living in the wake of the first world war, where most countries had been too ruined to act against an particle, whose existence is completely unknown. We are here. And now.
And we have to find the best way to make use of our skills, technology and knowledge for creating the maximum gain for humanity. All of it. Even for those who will die despite all this, don't let their deaths be futile, some weird act of God, despite us knowing, that this isn't the case.