Convincing Boomer Parents to Take the Coronavirus Seriously.

What the fuck is wrong with Boomers? I know, not all Boomers, yada yada, but as a generation they are a total fail train on the way to Failtown. Why?

My guess is that it’s because they’ve largely spent their lives getting nearly everything they wanted and needed — free or nearly-free college, with politicians always catering to their desires, rarely being told “no” or that their yearnings weren’t realistic. They simply cannot conceive of a world that doesn’t revolve around them because they have never experienced it.

So even though Covid-19 is a virus, they just have this idea in the back (and the front, for that matter) of their minds that it’ll also — as all else has — bend to their wills. It doesn’t have to make sense, and it does not. But that is I think what’s going on here.