A Generational War Is Brewing Over Coronavirus

[applegrove]

A Generational War Is Brewing Over Coronavirus

March 17, 2020 at 1:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 270 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/17/a-generational-war-is-brewing-over-coronavirus/

"SNIP.......

Wall Street Journal: “Data released last week by the National Health Institute in Italy, currently the world’s worst-hit country, shows mortality rates starting at 0% for patients aged 0 to 29 and edging up to peak at 19% for those over 90.”

“Yet scientists say tests have shown children and young adults are no less likely than older people to get infected and transmit the virus. Epidemiologists are growing concerned that the millennial pushback against social-distancing measures—and an emerging generational divide about how the disease is perceived—could undo all efforts to slow the spread of the virus and put vulnerable people at high risk.”

....SNIP"

There is already an intergenerational war going on. It is called catastropic climate change.

[Igel]

1. About a decade ago the college Freshman Survey ran into something new.

Since being given for the first time decades ago, empathy fell off the top 10 list of values. Things like "fame" crept higher and higher. That was distressing enough.

But a number of millennial frosh needed to have the word defined for them. That was reported as a question test administrators hadn't run into before. The students did not know what the word meant. That was more distressing.

Test administrators reported a number of students expressed amazement, after hearing the definition, that empathy was actually a thing.

And test administrators added that among that last group, some opined that empathy was downright stupid.

The story was taken to be derogatory to a group that was America's Best Hope for a Happy Shiny Future, and boomerist in mentality, and vanished. But never walked back.

[applegrove]

2. I remember hearing the fame thing. Ug. I cannot imagine anything worse. nt

[smirkymonkey]

3. I weep for the future.

I can't think of anything more shallow and worthless.

[Amishman]

4. Strangely enough, most of those I know not taking this seriously are 60+