Let me ask you this: excluding War periods, when was the last time you've known hospitals to be overwhelmed as they have been in China @ 1st, then in Italy and now in Spain?
@ the risk of sounding callous, the deaths don't matter: what matters is the number of those that require hospitalization and THAT number is MUCH HIGHER than the 1 - 2% of the death toll because THAT'S what overwhelms the hospitals.
Many governments around the world are desperately trying to avoid THAT and go as far as shutdown a HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT PART of their countries in the hopes it doesn't come to that.
Why? Because once hospitals are overwhelmed, other medical problems that CAN BE TREATED in normal situations MAY NOT BE: not only the number of deaths from COVID-19 skyrockets but other deaths totally non related also occur, inflating the total death toll even more.