Old people are not the only ones dying.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...
Median age is 80.5. That's actually near the life expectancy of an Italian male.
99% of fatalities were among people with a prior illness.
About half of the deaths were people suffering from three or more other illnesses.
To put it very bluntly, a lot of the folks dying from COVID-19 were already dying. COVID-19 is the straw that broke the camel's back.
About half of those infected in New York City are under 50
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/nyregion/coronavirus-new-...
...preliminary figures released on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that adults ages 20 to 44 represent nearly one-third of U.S. coronavirus patients whose ages are known.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-millen...
In any case, it's not me who you're calling "deadly" wrong, it's the Italian Ministry of Health.
Sure they're not fatalities, but do you really want to go to an overcrowded hospital for COVID-19? (Will be worse when ventilators run out and hospitalization can't help you nearly as much)