Baby Boomer narcissism on full display. Her age group and older were the only ones who were ever at any risk from Covid. Not because Covid is more dangerous than any other virus, but because they are old. Boomers have spent their entire lives surrounded by the most extreme opulence and privilege that any single generation has ever experienced in all of human history, being inculcated throughout their lives with the crazy futurism that pervaded the 50s and 60s, having their narcissism and confidence being constantly fed and reinforced by politicians, academia, media and popular culture, to the point where it probably never occurred to them that they are just as mortal as anybody else has ever been.

Combine that with the collective abandonment of traditional family structures and the replacement of traditional religion with the religion of state worship, and a significant number of Boomers, especially the "educated" ones, may on some level have actually let themselves be convinced that the government could protect them from old age and death.

And now they're old and dying. And unlike every other generation in human history, who have by and large accepted that it was their responsibility to preserve the legacy they were left and endeavor to leave something better for those who come after, they turn around and insist with increasing hysteria that the younger generations instead need to sacrifice our futures, our economic security, our freedoms, our livelihoods and our children's potential achievements in order to protect them. It's a kind of collective, megalomaniacal delusion born of unimaginable privilege.

And I'm fully aware that the problem will only get worse. Gen X may not be so bad, growing up as they did in the 70s and 80s when people had a more realistic outlook, but when the Millennials get old, and the Zoomers, this same pattern will play out to even greater extremes. If any of us live that long.