boomer remover

English

Etymology

From being an agent that removes baby boomers from the living population, i.e. kills them, as older people are more susceptible to the virus. (See quotations below.)

Noun

boomer remover (uncountable)

1. (slang, humorous, derogatory) COVID-19 (“the disease”) or SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”).
   • 2020 March 16, SliverMcSilverson, “Anyone else seeing this”, in Reddit‎^[1]:

     We’re being instructed to return COVID possible patients back to their “3 per room” SNF prior to receiving test results. […] Fuck, they're taking #boomerremover seriously

   • 2020 March 17, Anne Acuña, “Internet riled up over cruel new Gen-Z, Millennial clapback calling COVID-19 as ‘Boomer Remover’”, in InqPop!‎^[2]:

     On February 29 this year, Twitter user @nurselietv posted the tweet “I heard someone call the coronavirus the ‘boomer remover’.”

   • 2021, Bronwen Lichtenstein, “From “Coffin Dodger” to “Boomer Remover”: Outbreaks of Ageism in Three Countries With Divergent Approaches to Coronavirus Control”, in The Journals of Gerontology, series b‎^[3], →DOI:

     Ageism has been blamed for islands of death in nursing homes (Mueller, 2020), and for a spike in intergenerational animosity, as captured in internet epithets such as “grandma/grandpa killer,” “boomer remover,” and “boomer doomer” (pre-Covid-19; “coffin dodger”).

   • 2021 March 30, Surgical Sister, Twitter‎^[4], archived from the original on March 30, 2021:

     This was supposed to be the #BoomerRemover .... they truly are the worst generation.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:boomer remover.

See also

• OK, boomer