Apocalypse Fatigue: Why Won't At-Risk Boomers Panic About the Wuhan Virus?

Ace of Spades HQ ^ | 3-19-20 | Buck Throckmorton

[skimbell]

In the past week, a story that keeps getting written and re-written by young journalists is the stubborn refusal of older Americans to panic about the Wuhan Virus. Pretty much every story reads: “Why is it that a healthy young American like me - in the demographic most likely to survive Coronavirus – is panicking

[LouieFisk]

"Apocalypse Fatigue"
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And it ain't even here - yet:
"Coronavirus: 'They call it the apocalypse' - inside Italy's hardest-hit hospital"
Masked, gloved and in a hazmat suit, my team and I are led through corridors full of gasping people who look terribly ill.
I ask what ward I am in.
"This isn't really a ward, it's a waiting room, we just have to use every bit of space," my guide, Vanna Toninelli, head of the hospital press office tells me.
The medical teams are fighting a war here and they are losing.
We have all heard what has been going on here, but no journalist has been allowed in here to see it, until now.
It's crippling - here they call it the apocalypse.
Bergamo wanted us to see this, as I have said, and they want to send a simple message: "Get ready".

[eyedigress]

I’m sorry, I meant that as a good thing!

My third grade coat room was cool. I didn’t have one in first or second. You could enter from front or back of room.

The school was built around 1920.

It just tells me their was much more “class” back then.

[Alberta's Child]

'radical hippies get tired of their revolution and go to work on Wall Street

Interesting tidbit ... this was the exact sentiment behind the lines in Don Henley’s classic “The Boys Of Summer” — Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said: ‘Don’t look back; you can never look back.’

[Peter ODonnell]

Boomers will panic if the Rolling Stones come down with it.

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve disagreed with you on some issues - I think you’ve identified me as one of your ‘stalkers’.

But I agree with you on this. If people have masks, they should use them. The idea that they won’t protect you is nuts. They will certainly protect us to some extent, and they will especially protect the most vulnerable better than going without will.

[tomkat]

The nursing home will never take me alive.

Roger that, FRiend .. saving the last one for me.

[Disambiguator]

I’ve been eyeballing a Mossberg 464 SPX and suddenly they’re unobtanium. Look it up, you’ll either shriek “blasphemy!” Or think, hmmm, that has possibilities.

[Paladin2]

They weren’t on/in Iron Lungs.

[Jamestown1630]

The term ‘Limousine Liberal’ appears to go back to 1969:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limousine_liberal

[tomkat]

(thanks, needed that !)

[Alberta's Child]

[RummyChick]

If you only have a surgical mask wrap a scarf around it your head for another layer of protection.

People are making masks. Some are even adding filters to them.

[Jamestown1630]

Well, I’m a ‘prepper’, so...

If this carries on for too long, I’ll take your advice.

[2111USMC]

BLASPHEMY!!!!!!

[BradyLS]

There have been a lot of Chicken Littles and Boys Who Cried Wolf in my life. And I’m only in my mid-50s!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Because you are boring us.

Not a boomer but the 24 hour "running around screaming" thing that the media and political class is indulging in is wearing a bit thin.

[El Cid]

Because we are all going to die.
Panic if you are going to meet death without being in Christ. That is worthy of panic for those without Christ - and should cause one to repent and to seek the Lord with all their heart while they are on this side of the grave.

[BradyLS]

Well, I did my 4 miles of uphill walking—through 8-foot snowdrifts!!! :-D ;-)

[100American]

Agree, we can smell the Bullshyte at a much further distance and not as immature mentally as the youngsters who want to be “in” with the latest buzz

BY and large folks my age look at this and say Yeah, sure...

If it is my time then hey let’s go, till then I am gonna use common sense and after all I have already survived I am not scared in the least

[Viking2002]

'That's not old,that's already dead.'

They make a little blue pill for that now.