So the last gasp of the baby boom generation is to tax the young and force them to learn how to save us. The me generation that demanded lower drinking ages when they were young, higher drinking ages when their children were young now demand everyone know how to save them when their ticker gives out.
Not exactly, CPR was big in some areas like Washington State, more than 40 years ago and was pretty big nationally in the 1970s.
The drinking laws were lowered by men in their 50s ,60s, and 70s, back in the early 1970s.
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 was passed in the same year as the very first presidential election, in which all boomers were old enough to vote for president (1984).
Do you prefer the 1967 gun laws, or the new ones?
The article points out that one impetus to this step was the death of two students. Nothing said about elderly, although some students might want to save their parents or grandparents. Your write like you think you would never be the candidate for such lifesaving, or don’t care if you stay dead, or don’t have anyone around who would be interested in saving you.
-PJ