At least one person in Kentucky is infected after taking part at a "coronavirus party" with a group of young adults [...]
The partygoers intentionally got together "thinking they were invincible" and purposely defying state guidance to practice social distancing, [...]
[...] the virus seems to be affecting young people in the United States more than it has in China. A report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that up to 20% of people hospitalized with coronavirus in the United States are between the ages of 20 and 44.
[...] "So far the demography definitely seems to be very different in the United States versus in other countries that saw this hit earlier,"
[...] In New York state, more than half of coronavirus cases -- 53% -- have been among young people between the ages of 18 and 49
From MSN:
Kentucky coronavirus party with group of young adults has left at least one person infected:
At least one person in Kentucky is infected after taking part at a "coronavirus party" with a group of young adults [...] The partygoers intentionally got together "thinking they were invincible" and purposely defying state guidance to practice social distancing [...] "This is one that makes me mad," the governor said. "We have to be much better than that."
And...From Slate:
A group of Kentucky partygoers recently attended a "coronavirus party." The event, which appears to be a pandemic-themed soiree, as you might imagine, was not a civic-minded effort to promote social distancing practices and best hand-washing practices, but a slap in the face to everyone else's collective efforts to not kill our parents and grandparents. The party mocked the virus, and the coronavirus gods were angry. One of the twentysomething attendees of the ill-advised gathering in the midst of a national emergency tested positive for the virus Tuesday.
Maybe I'm too old to get it, but it seems to me somewhat unwise to do this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @04:30PM (8 children)
Also Gen X here and I'd love to have the lot of them wiped out. Yes, I'd be sad to lose some relatives, but let's be honest about how much damage the Boomers have done to our generation, generations after us and the world at large. We've had a rapidly shrinking window during which we could do something about climate change and the boomers could have been a powerful force for doing something about it, anything about it, but by and large they've shown no interest at all in doing something about it. Same goes for shipping jobs over seas, they're generation was the one that did that at the largest rate.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @07:09PM
Ok Doomer..
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday March 26 2020, @08:02PM (6 children)
If we're going to be honest about the Boomer damage, we need to keep in mind that they also played a big role in the greatest improvement in the human condition ever. It's remarkable how the usual minor mistakes of a generation are used as a pretext to damn the whole lot. Sorry, there's no evidence that we have a "rapidly shrinking window" to deal with climate change - after all, adaptation is a viable and cheap option. As for shipping jobs overseas, welcome to labor competition with the developing world. Those people, not the Boomers, got to decide whether they wanted to improve their own lives or not. I think they choose well as a whole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2020, @08:07PM (2 children)
Not really, that was their parents that set that up. The boomers were just doing the work they were assigned through that. It's been steps backwards since the boomers took over. Life expectancies going lower, more poverty.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 26 2020, @10:10PM
Which as I already noted is incorrect. You're not even characterizing the world right, so how can you determine what the Boomers' contribution is.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 28 2020, @03:43PM
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Mykl on Thursday March 26 2020, @09:33PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Friday March 27 2020, @01:44AM
Hmmm. I wonder if people are using the "Troll" modifier in the absence of a "Butthurt" modifier?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 27 2020, @01:31PM
Several of your listed items come from either a poorly designed social safety net (say "sucked up free/cheap education", "draining the health care system") or artificial scarcity ("sucked up cheap housing within reasonable distance to urban centres", "enact policies that specifically enriched Boomers"). Others I think will go away on their own ("offshored") as the world becomes wealthier and labor competition becomes more a matter of who has better systems than who has cheaper labor.
Here's some suggestions. In the short term:
And it helps hide government misdeeds.
In the long term: