Yeah we would need more time to tell what the long-term impact COVID-19 is going to have on the death rates. COVID-19 is more efficient at finishing off old sick people than the flu. But then those people were going to die from a heart attack, cancer, Alzheimer's, pneumonia, FLU, etc. maybe a year or two down the road anyways. When you're 85+ years old and your body starts to break down, something is gonna getcha eventually. A 93 year old relative of mine with dementia in a nursing home died of COVID-19. He was dead man walking already. It sounds cruel but it sucks to live with Alzheimer's Disease. There is no cure for Alzheimer's Disease. Yet.

Death is not something that our society is comfortable with talking about. We haven't achieved immortality yet. So for the time being, death comes for us all. And we are so desperate to cheat death that we have decided to print money to oblivion and take away the essence of living itself in order to fight death. Given the capital mobility of the bourgeoisie, we can't just tax rich people to pay for all these lockdown measures. Society is going to pay the price for these lockdowns with inflation.