assuming you mean the US death toll also bear in mind the median age of WW II casualties was something like 26; while the median age for covid victims is 75+. Not to diminish the latter but they are very different.
Edit: I meant this as a joke, albeit in poor taste, I see it was not received well.
That being said, I do think that relativizing deaths in terms of "opportunity cost" does lead to some somewhat unpalatable moral conundra.
Hard to argue with it. But it does lead to some places mainstream american morality would consider unpleasant.
This isn't a perspective exclusive to young people either. Last year my grandfather died and my cousin had a miscarriage. My grandmother was far more distraught over the latter because she understood that her husband, who she'd loved for nearly 60 years, had already lived a full happy life. She said as much explicitly.
Anyway, I'd say my grandfather and cousin deaths (non-covid related) had about the same impact on me. Dying is the tragedy of being alive, I suppose.
Is it possible there are other issues you're not aware of, and that the people who spend their lives studying and preparing for these situations are?
Do you have any articles about people being turned away from hospitals due to lack of capacity?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
So it’s fair to attribute those deaths to covid then.
-sarcasmApparently coronavirus pays well for hospitals, also some people want the death due to cornoviruis to be as high as possible.
You mean 48.
" After exclusions, data for 1,320,488 (94%) cases were analyzed.Median age was 48 years"