Official data from Italy:
- average age of victims: 79,5 y/o.
- only 5 victims below 40, all of whom already suffered other illnesses.
- only 3 victims in total did not have other contributing illnesses.
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Every victim is of course 1-2-many.

But I think this supports the view that, if the world had not begun testing for covid19, the world would not have noticed anything remarkable.

The lockdowns seem unwarranted.

disclaimer: in light of the panic that has been spreading like wildfile, I do think the lockdowns are to some extent understandable, perhaps even defensible. We want to minimize infections knowing that everyone with a cough will be running to the hospital, clogging the ICUs.
1/2

The point is of course that the panic was unwarranted to begin with.
No panic. No clogging of hospitals.
No panic. No lockdowns.

Also salient:

(a) number of flu patients in Italy this year strongly decreased as numbers of covid-patients increased.

(b) in the same period last year, flu numbers in Italy were considerably higher than they are now.

Left: 2018/19
Right: 2019/20 (mind: differing scales!)