What is the average life expectancy?
What is the average age of a "covid victim?"
And...
There have been a few stories that actually got out here in St. Louis about the number of fatalities that originated in "nursing homes."
(I include outfits like hospice, long-term-care, acute care, and so on in those numbers)
When a geezer has two types of cancer, and another illness or two, and you are SURPRISED that they die when they catch a nasty cold?
Let's put my paranoia hat on... What if two actual beasties? Wuhan-19 is close enough to a prevalent cold virus that they'll test the same? But Wuhan-19 does all those nasties that you keep reading about? While the regular cold virus just keeps doing what it always has been doing - culling the herd of the slow-moving ill and infirm?