As a Boomer I would gladly sacrifice my life

[edhopper]

so that Millennials can hang out at coffee spots a week earlier.

[Beringia]

1. I was thinking of sacrifice yesterday

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]

7. This is the big question and I haven't seen a definitive answer.

You would assume immunity, but I have read about at least 1 person catching it twice.

[magicarpet]

13. Catch the severely mutated strain the second time around ?.

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]

33. Thanks for sharing

[In_The_Wind]

2. Ha

Not me!

[Celerity]

3. ...

[Iliyah]

4. Sorta reminds me of the movie . . .

Logan's Run.

[edhopper]

6. Renew! Renew!

[marble falls]

12. That reminds me: I need to call the Library.

[Newest Reality]

54. Check your life clock...

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.

[LexVegas]

5. ...

[customerserviceguy]

8. Yep

Me, too. I just worry about will there be enough bailout money for the places that used to sell avocado toast.

[edhopper]

9. And no places to trim

hipster beards are open.

[marble falls]

14. Hey! This boomer and wife have Avocado toast at least weekly ...

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]

46. That's cause you're a Boomer.

Hipster Millennials eat it at restaurants for $15 a plate.

[marble falls]

47. Now that's some dumbness on the part of those young'uns. A dollar avocaro, a $.25 ...

piece o'bread for $15.00? The perfect beverage for them that dumb is a $20 cup of Lemur poop coffee!

[edhopper]

51. But of course.

[jaxexpat]

60. Pearl and toast.

The sweet bouquet of Luling in bloom.

[marble falls]

65. Haven't had a Pearl in quite a while. I've gotten too hung up on Blanco Real Ale ...

thanks for the hint!

[Turin_C3PO]

10. Hilarious

[phylny]

11. I refuse to toss

any generation under the bus.

[mtngirl47]

24. Yep---I'm seeing all generations out doing stupid things! n/t

[marble falls]

15. Since 2012 the VA has spent at least a million dollars on me ...

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]

16. Fuck that shit

I'd ask how many F35s, how many tax breaks for rich assholes and corporations.

[LakeArenal]

28. Point!!!!

[kag]

30. Yes! Thank you, edhopper! n/t

[eleny]

39. "Fuck that shit"

That's it in a nutshell, Ed!

[2naSalit]

61. Amen!

[Alex4Martinez]

38. Half of that million lined the pockets of healthcare execs, et al.

And, you're worth it!

[Andy823]

17. I think that trump and his cult

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]

18. Don't forget the younger crowd - a portion of them too don't care or are just stupid too

Link to tweet

?s=21

Thanks boomer edhopper that means they can get back to serious parties sooner

[wryter2000]

22. But he'd happily kill grandma

Or maybe his roommate

[kag]

32. "I'm not gonna let it stop me..."

There's no LETTING this virus stop you. It stops you. Sometimes permanently. Even when you're young and mind-bogglingly stupid.

[DinahMoeHum]

42. No cure for their brand of stupid, alas.

[RicROC]

19. no grandchildren

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]

20. Only if it is a hipster coffee shop.

[edhopper]

21. That goes without saying

[mwooldri]

23. I was thinking a virgin sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli. NT

[panader0]

25. I would gladly sacrifice my life

to get rid of the orange virus in the WH.

[liberalmuse]

26. I want to see the people pushing this sick form of genocide volunteer to be first in line.

Put up or shut up. What a horrifying thing to even suggest.

[guillaumeb]

27. Do not forget spring break.

Your sacrifice is appreciated.

[mommymarine2003]

29. My son-in-law is getting tested today for the virus.

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]

48. I am sorry to here this

I wish your family the best for a quick recovery.

[NNadir]

31. On the other hand, there are many millennials who have been working to educate...

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...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]

40. Your bashing of older people is false and disgusting.

Just because you are one doesn't make it right.

[NNadir]

45. That's funny, because I find the bashing of young people false and disgusting. But...

...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?

[Celerity]

64. +1

thank you!

[Celerity]

63. I see all sorts of 'bash us younger folk' posts on here, in fact this OP is one, so spare me your

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]

34. OK, Boomer!

Nobody's ever said that to me, and I was born in 1957.

[edhopper]

49. Okay Boomer!

[Martin Eden]

59. First time, thanks!

Kinda reassuring, actually.

[Iggo]

58. They don't really say it to your face. They know they'd get Buzz-Aldrin'd. It's an internet thing.

[plimsoll]

35. My son and I have this discussion regularly.

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]

36. Patrick is a teabagger cultist who knows people are on to his con. n/t

[IronLionZion]

37. OK Boomer, don't mess with my coffee!

Entitled boomers only thinking of themselves!

[demmiblue]

41. This is just stupid.

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]

50. It's actually not the Millennials who are saying it

It's mostly conservative assholes.

But I couldn't miss the opportunity for the joke.

[Luciferous]

62. Yep, Millenials aren't the ones out partying for spring break, that is gen z...

[Celerity]

66. +1

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]

43. I think the one in the White House has already volunteered to be the first

No?

[dflprincess]

44. This should prove once & for all that Trump & the Republicans are not "prolife"

and that their concern for the "unborn" is rooted in their fear & hatred of women.

[catrose]

52. Sacrifice my life so my children can continue to get screwed over by the Republican economy? NOPE

[samnsara]

53. ...and I will shop an hour early and buy up all the tp :)

[GoneOffShore]

55. Here's a thing from Patrick Henry -

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]

56. We been trying to get those kids outside for the last 30 years.

They're the all-time champs of not going out.

Now it bothers them?

[spanone]

57. Bwahahahahhahaa