This is hilarious.
So a citizen has a sacrificial duty when it comes to protecting others (overwhelmingly the elderly, total coincidence of course) when it comes to pandemics, but when it comes to public finances, this sacrificial duty towards needier people doesn’t exist because ‘why should pensioners give up their concessions to help those much less well off’.
Everything you’ve relied on has either been a statistical anomaly (like the idea we locked down to save children when the average - not upper end, average - age of a covid death was 83), or something your generation did to primarily benefit themselves at the time which we should apparently be grateful for now.
Implying the younger generations only have themselves to blame because they’re not politically active enough is hilarious. ‘If you can’t stop me from voting to put you in poverty, then you’re to blame’. It’s voting DARVO at its finest. Voters aged 18-24 had the highest turnout for 25 years at the 2017 election, and was higher again in 2019. The voter turnout for under 24s now is the same as it was in the 70s when today’s Boomers were around that age themselves.
As for activism, over a million people marched against Brexit. The poll tax riots attracted a measly 200,000 by comparison. The fact you got more done with a fifth of the turnout is testament to how much harder we have to push or work to get anything done these days in the face of a tidal wave of Conservative voters. Making out younger people are lazy and apathetic just doesn’t stack up, and is yet another avacado toast myth. At worst they’re no less active than you were as late teens and 20 somethings.
As for covid, as I said previously the average age of a death was 83. Making out we didn’t lock down to protect the elderly but instead did it to protect children is laughable. The simple fact is that the younger generations have been hammered again, because the tories wanted to protect their voting base alive and keep themselves in power. I and millions of other younger workers could’ve happily continued our lives, instead we wasted months of our existence under house arrest watching the country fall into further expensive ruin to save the lives of people who happily vote to make our lives intolerable. I had a covid baby who barely saw her wider family for her first year and bar one solitary walk a day, we didn’t go anywhere or do anything for months. Most of the new mums I know had galloping PND because they were effectively imprisoned with their newborns for months on end.
‘I didn’t see anyone turn down the furlough money’ - do you not understand the difference between money claimed because somebody has been legally prevented from going out and earning their own, and a few hundred quid given to a group of people of whom a fifth are millionaires? If not, you’re doing such a good job of living up to the unflattering stereotypes I don’t really need to labour the point.