Gen Z Is Done With the Pandemic. Though the specter of a new variant hangs over the holidays, young people have no plans to lock themselves down again.

And good for them. They should be rebelling. We’ve put an enormous, incalculable burden on those 5-25 to protect — mostly — obese people over 70. This is not the way it should’ve been. We’ve isolated young people from their friends, prevented them from having extremely important formative and socializing experiences and then had the temerity to call them “selfish” for not wanting to be stuck at home for years at a time.

I’d be defying all that, too. I’d be in open revolution.