Warning: Totally irreverent #coronapocalypse perspective in 3, 2, 1…
I think it’s noteworthy that there is a swelling of questioning, lecturing, and anger being directed generally at young people in America by the Boomer generation (and others, to be fair) for their seeming disregard for the dangers of the #coronavirus. See, this pandemic seems to punish the old much more than the young…by dramatic numbers. Stats are starting to show that the word’s youth are much less likely, although not entirely, to suffer worse symptoms and are much less likely to die from this than, say, people over 60. Oh, and the folks over 60 don’t like it that young people are out at bars and clubs, and work, and parks, and all over the place, flaunting and taunting as if this is no big deal – even claiming such in countless social media posts.
What I find interesting, although arguably unrelated, is that the world’s youth has been pleading and screaming at the tops of their lungs about issues such as climate change, healthcare, and income inequality, etc, as examples of situations that will (and are) dramatically and negatively impact their lives – many in potential life and death scenarios – yet the peeps over 60 just don’t seem to listen or care.
Apples to oranges? Maybe. Just more of the Me Generation looking down on the Me Me Me Generation? Possibly. But listening to a bunch of old people lecture a bunch of young people about a problem that doesn’t proportionally affect them definitely smells a bit like irony with just a hint of hypocrisy to me.
