This reaction is motivated by boomers who would sell your future for an extra year or two.

This could have been a huge windfall for the US. You have all these older people burdening the system with ongoing Social Security and Medicare payments, while rich with homes & assets.

Most of the people who will die from this are people with immune systems just waiting for whatever was going to kill them to kill them. Like AIDS doesn't kill you, it only destroys your immune system so that simple food poisoning or the flu would kill you.

So boomers are so afraid that they are willing to shut the country down just to minimize the chance that they might die this year rather than a couple years from now.

I mean, I get wanting to live, but at what cost (vs benefit)? Like paying $700k for a 90 year olds heart transplant, is that $700k best spent buying that one person a couple years more, or buying several families homes that they will use for decades, or covering medical school costs for a few doctors to help people for decades?

The market will tank, the economy will struggle, unemployment will rise, crime will increase, etc motivated by boomers willing to destroy everything for their own % chance of not catching a cold that has a 15% chance of taking them out.

The windfall of cash from their deaths, the reduced SS/Medi burden, adorable vacant housing, etc...This could have been the answer for the country's debt issue, but unfortunately the debt boomers will saddle us with will be double and the inheritance will be half.

Just sucks.