The Expendable Generation

Tampa Bay, Fl
Opinion by: E. Eugene Webb PhD
Author:  In Search of Robin, So You Want to Blog.     

Well, it looks like Governor Ron DeSanctis Florida is throwing caution to the wind.

Governor Ron DeSanctis, “We’re not shutting down. We’re going to go forward,” he said. “You have to have society function.” 

If you are over 60 and think the Governor has your back, think again. On the important list of Coronavirus impacts, your morbidity(death) rate is right near the bottom.

Which Generation are you?

Generation Name	Births Start	Births End	Youngest Age Today*	Oldest Age Today*
The Lost Generation The Generation of 1914	1890	1915	105	130
The Interbellum Generation	1901	1913	107	119
The Greatest Generation	1910	1924	96	110
The Silent Generation	1925	1945	75	95
Baby Boomer Generation	1946	1964	56	74
Generation X (Baby Bust)	1965	1979	41	55
Xennials	1975	1985	35	45
Millennials Generation Y, Gen Next	1980	1994	26	40
iGen / Gen Z	1995	2012	8	25
Gen Alpha	2013	2025	1	7

(*age if still alive today)

 By Michael T. Robinson
Founder and Career Coach
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It seems like the Xennials and Millennials agree and have decided that a few craft beers are worth killing off a few baby boomers.

I recently saw a report where a millennial Blogger indicated that since baby boomers constitute something less than. 1% of the population, social distancing and business shut down are not worth the effort if the sole intent is to protect the older population.

Easy to say if you are under 60.

I don't know about you, but if you happen to be a baby boomer, I'll bet you never thought you would be considered expendable by your grandchildren for a romp at the beach, a protest or a cold brew at their favorite craft brew hangout.

I used to have some significant sympathy for Xennials and Millennials and who piled up massive college debt getting degrees that don't enable them to get a job and have spent most of their lives living at their parents’ house, isolated from everything that goes on in the world other than their frequent trips to the coffee shop and the brew pub.

Not so much anymore.

This whole I don’t want to work because I don’t want anyone telling ME what to do, and the attitude that the universe owes me a place is getting to be a bit much.

The interesting thing about these new statistics is as the number of cases of coronavirus increases, the often-unreported fact is that as the case count goes up, it increases the number of people out there that can spread the virus to anyone.

What the younger generation doesn't get, it seems, is that's the way these viruses are spread.

It's also important to note that the newest increasing infection rate is actually among the very people who seemed to be the least willing to take the known steps that prevent the virus from spreading.

Viruses are fascinating things.

They seem to have a way of not only infecting their hosts but also figuring out how their host rejects them and adapting as they move from person to person. So as you congregate, protest, hoist a few and enjoy your much needed “social contact” you are creating the ideal scenario for the virus to rapidly spread,

At this rate, it may not be too long before you’re the one in the ICU hooked up to the ventilator gasping for life as your grandparents look on.

I suspect we will have more empathy for you than you have shown for us.

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