Baby Boomers are at higher risk for complications from COVID-19 — so why do their millennial kids have to convince them to practice social distancing?
and 54% of Gen X members. Only 19% of boomers reported having canceled a flight as a result of coronavirus, as opposed to 31% of millennials and 28% of Gen Xers.who dismiss it are conservatives, admire our president and parrot his ‘it’s just a flu/fake news’ attitude,” says Seth Lindquist, 33.
Yet for the most part, these boomers’ relative unwillingness to confront the reality of COVID-19 seems to stem from the same impulse that guided my worst decisions during my teenage years: They just don’t like being told what to do, whether it’s in their best interest or not. “ Sam’s father, a “bleed blue Democrat,” is 55 and is still, despite her protestations, working out of an office and not remotely, against the Trump administration’s recent recommendations that people should work from home if possible. “He’s
The psychic toll of this refusal to take the virus seriously can be devastating for older people’s loved ones. Over and over again, millennials and zoomers recounted their parents’ and grandparents’ adamant refusal to take the virus seriously not just in terms of the frustration it caused them, but also the desperation and anxiety. “A stalemate is definitely where we’re at now,” says Kugler. “They’re not going to change their minds for anyone, especially not their own kids.
How did the boomers in the U.S. become the unmanageable, risk-taking teenagers of the pandemic? Everyone i know is arguing with their parents right now. Why are they unwilling to accept the seriousness of the risk? It's so strange.At a certain point in adulthood, we reach a point where we have to take care of the people who have been tasked to take care of us.
In the beginning I was a little skeptical but within the last week or so I’m not at all,” says Deanna Kugler’s father Jim, 60. “As time goes on, just from reading up about it,
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