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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs a Boomer I would gladly sacrifice my life
so that Millennials can hang out at coffee spots a week earlier.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)I had the idea, those people who get the virus and are then immune, could volunteer if needed at hospitals. But I don't think they know if you get immunity or not ,whether you can catch the virus 2x.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)You would assume immunity, but I have read about at least 1 person catching it twice.
magicarpet
(14,150 posts)Three days later, though, Wang tested positive for the coronavirus again. He was re-hospitalized and his neighbors were locked down once more. His current condition is unknown.
Wang, whose full name has not been disclosed for privacy reasons, is one of more than 100 reported cases of Chinese patients who have been released from hospitals as survivors of the new coronavirus only to test positive for it a second time in the bewildering math of this mysterious illness.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-13/china-japan-korea-coronavirus-reinfection-test-positive
Beringia
(4,316 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Not me!
Celerity
(43,360 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Logan's Run.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)marble falls
(57,083 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Check your life clock in your palm. If it is flashing red then either run or it's off to Carousel for you. Of course, renewal is a possibility.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Me, too. I just worry about will there be enough bailout money for the places that used to sell avocado toast.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)hipster beards are open.
marble falls
(57,083 posts)A smear of mayo, mushed avocado, some chopped good olives, cheese under the broiler .... good eating. And I don't feel the least bit ironically hip as I drink a local Texas beer with it.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)Hipster Millennials eat it at restaurants for $15 a plate.
marble falls
(57,083 posts)piece o'bread for $15.00? The perfect beverage for them that dumb is a $20 cup of Lemur poop coffee!
edhopper
(33,579 posts)jaxexpat
(6,828 posts)The sweet bouquet of Luling in bloom.
marble falls
(57,083 posts)thanks for the hint!
Turin_C3PO
(13,991 posts)phylny
(8,380 posts)any generation under the bus.
mtngirl47
(989 posts)marble falls
(57,083 posts)We've prolonged my life but we certainly haven't "saved" it. At best I've been given time (years) to pass from something other than cancer. I'm not ready to go, but its no shock that at some point I am going.
There are times I wonder how many kid's lives could have been saved with that investment.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)I'd ask how many F35s, how many tax breaks for rich assholes and corporations.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)kag
(4,079 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)That's it in a nutshell, Ed!
Alex4Martinez
(2,193 posts)And, you're worth it!
Andy823
(11,495 posts)should lead the way. He is way past his prime, and from what I see from his rallies, his base is vastly more "over 60" and many of them look like they have health problems, not to mention mental problems.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)wryter2000
(46,045 posts)Or maybe his roommate
kag
(4,079 posts)There's no LETTING this virus stop you. It stops you. Sometimes permanently. Even when you're young and mind-bogglingly stupid.
DinahMoeHum
(21,787 posts)RicROC
(1,204 posts)The Lt. Gov said he would sacrifice himself for his grandchildren. Well, I don't have any grandchildren and I will not sacrifice myself for his grandchildren.
Besides, I need to live long enough to vote out the Imposter-in-Chief in November.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)edhopper
(33,579 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)to get rid of the orange virus in the WH.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)Put up or shut up. What a horrifying thing to even suggest.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Your sacrifice is appreciated.
mommymarine2003
(261 posts)He works in a care facility south of Seattle. He and my daughter have been sick for a few days. She is running a low fever. He is waiting for the call from the hospital as to where and when to get tested. Now they are quarantined. I'm a boomer and know that I cannot go to help. My daughter has compromised lungs, so she is pretty scared. I am sure hoping it is the flu or something like that because the care facility is going to freak out if he is positive.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)I wish your family the best for a quick recovery.
NNadir
(33,518 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 24, 2020, 02:48 PM - Edit history (1)
...themselves so that when they are old, they will be able to protect everyone.
We baby boomers are a pretty smug self absorbed bunch, given that in our generation, we destroyed the planetary atmosphere, consumed all of the world's best ores for important elements in the periodic table, elected Reagan, two Bushes and Trump, undertook a mass extinction and now feel entitled - and boy are we ever entitled - to bash the young.
Young people now will write our history and I suspect they won't be kind, since we neither deserve kindness and are not worthy of it.
These kids will be a great generation. They've got what it takes. Anyone who hates them is merely hating the future.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Just because you are one doesn't make it right.
NNadir
(33,518 posts)...which of my specific statements are untrue?
Has the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere not risen by 100 ppm since the 1950's?
Are there the same quantities of high quality ores that were available in 1955 available now?
Were the oceans filled with plastic in 1955? Are they now so filled?
The avatar of my generation, Donald Trump, has a tortured relationship with the truth, and often calls the truth false, but hatred of the truth does not make truth false.
Sorry, but that's a fact, and facts matter.
OK?
thank you!
Celerity
(43,360 posts)feigned outrage.
The stereotypes on here for us Millennials, Zennials (me, 1996-born), and Gen Zers are just as obnoxious, ignorant, and false in their own way as the what the MAGATs stereotype us liberals as.
I know I am STAGGERINGLY outnumbered here (a recent what is your age post yielded THREE of us under 25 years of age, out of 544 replies), so I do not expect the outcomes to improve, as safety in numbers an all that. I find it laughable that you are trying to false frame reality (as he/she made no factual errors) as some sort of 'hate' from the poster you just replied to.
Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)Nobody's ever said that to me, and I was born in 1957.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)Kinda reassuring, actually.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)plimsoll
(1,669 posts)I object to being called a boomer. (I'm at the tail end and only get called a boomer when we're passing out blame) On the other hand there are some legitimate complaints that my son's generation has. Ignore the avocado toast bit, and hipster noise.
The people customarily described as boomers now did have substantially more services and educational opportunities provided to us. From personal observation I watched tuition at my public university go up 200% while I was an undergrad. That trend has continued, so they really do leave college with staggering debt loads. I don't have much sympathy for people who want to go to exclusive schools, but public universities are not a great bargain anymore.
At every turn, the things we grew up with and benefitted from have been withdrawn. I can see the resentment.
Besides the call for human sacrifices are coming from the groups most closely associated with the "right to life," to appease Dow Jones, who is very displeased with America. Only sacrificial victims will placate their angry god.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)Entitled boomers only thinking of themselves!
demmiblue
(36,851 posts)Any Millennial I know is working their ass off and paying off college debt.
Dog forbid if you, or any of us, end up in the hospital due to this pandemic. If so, please thank the Millennial who is part of the healthcare team.
Some of you don't seem to realize who the Millennials are, age range-wise. Must be a Boomer thing.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)It's mostly conservative assholes.
But I couldn't miss the opportunity for the joke.
Luciferous
(6,079 posts)The oldest Millennials turn 40 right before the next POTUS term is sworn in. I am a Zennial, a cusper (1996 born, the last year of the Millenial gen or first year of Gen Z depending on what is your cut-off year) so I get the bollocksing from every angle, blasted over what people 12, 14, 15 years older than me do, and then blasted for shit that 15 or 18 year old Gen Zers are doing as well. I really don't feel part of either group, other than I tend to really get on well with the later (1988/89/90 or so and onward born) Millenials the best, and some people who are a year or two younger than me, but that quickly tails off. I also am London-raised, so perhaps it would be different if I had grown up where I was born (Los Angeles) but I did live in California again for a couple of years reading for a Master Degree and people gen-wise seemed to exhibit some of the same inclinations and tendencies.
One big thing I have noticed about British Gen Zers (I think they vary somewhat from US ones in this regard, or at least I truly hope they do) is that they are definitely more likely on average to lean more conservative than many Millenials, and by conservative I mean in many aspects, not just politically. I do think that Brexit has unfortunately helped in this regard as well, especially once you get outside of London. The vast majority of Gen Zers never really had a lot of life experience with a pan EU lifestyle/outlook that so many of us Zennials, Millennials, Xennials, and even pure Gen Xers did, simply due to their (Gen Z) age.
jorgevlorgan
(8,293 posts)No?
dflprincess
(28,078 posts)and that their concern for the "unborn" is rooted in their fear & hatred of women.
catrose
(5,066 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry, 1775
Is health so dear, or grandparents so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of being poor? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me money or give me death!
Republican Party, 2020 #bonespurpatriots
Iggo
(47,552 posts)They're the all-time champs of not going out.
Now it bothers them?