Some less charitable youngsters have even renamed the virus the “boomer remover.”
2020 March 19, Hannah Sparks, “Morbid ‘boomer remover’ coronavirus meme only makes millennials seem more awful”, in New York Post[2]:
And despite the fact that nearly 40% of coronavirus-related hospitalizations in the US have occurred in patients younger than 54, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the disease is hitting older adults much harder: 80% of deaths associated with the illness were among those 65 and older. Hence, “boomer remover” is now officially a trending meme.
They think the “boomer remover” doesn’t apply to the under 25 crowd, but a recent Center for Disease Control report shows up to 20 percent of people hospitalized with the novel coronavirus in the U.S. are young adults.
Unless you are young and sanguine enough to believe coronavirus is either a beat-up or a “boomer remover” and therefore it’s business as usual, you are either ill or deeply anxious about getting ill and infecting others.
Her grandfather dropped off a few rolls of toilet paper one morning. “Hope you don’t get the boomer remover,” Noël wrote in the thank you note I had the girls compose. I asked my husband if she should reword the card and he said no. It seemed funny two weeks ago.
