If you are part of a high mortality rate demographic, you are better to get it first in your demographic to have a better access to resources (or very late when the resources are back under control). The issue is not really the virus per se, but its effect on the healthcare systems. That is something health systems work with _every year_ with flu season, nothing new under the sun. What's different is _nobody_ has immunity to this virus, and a lot of people initially dismissed the virus, or are still dismissing the risks.