The following is satirical.
As a Baby Boomer, I think it’s very important for me to explain to younger generations the point and purpose of all the precautions you’re being asked to take in this moment of crisis: namely me, my health, my safety, which are all important because they involve me, a Baby Boomer.
We Boomers have given a great deal to America. It was we who began the sexual revolution so your parents could enjoy a freer, more expansive sexual life, ultimately leading to divorce and all those step-fathers who came and went through your house while we kept telling you that everything was really great and we were still a family, so you wouldn’t express your feelings of depression and trauma and thus create responsibilities for the person who mattered most, namely me, a Baby Boomer.
It was also we Boomers who took the drug culture mainstream so that the use of mind-expanding substances wouldn’t be restricted just to junkies and other junkies but so ordinary people like you and your late brother could also experience the beautiful hallucinations and deepening consciousness that help you forget about the fact you’re living on the street.
It was also we Boomers who put an end to all that silly faith and patriotism so you wouldn’t have to keep jumping to your feet to say the Pledge of Allegiance or dropping to your knees to pray to God but could instead remain comfortably in your chair while atheist Communists took over the country and destroyed everything you never even knew you held dear.
So now you may ask: if you Baby Boomers were given everything and are leaving us with little more than a therapy bill and a box of Melba toast, why should we limit our activities to protect you from illness. And the answer is, if we don’t care for the generations before and to come, the world cannot survive in prosperity and freedom. So for your own sake, don’t be selfish. Like me, a Baby Boomer.