Is Generation X — the legion of latchkey kids for whom the waning Cold War still forced futile school drills — better able to self-soothe under the confines of a coronavirus quarantine than Gen Z, millennials and baby boomers?
iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } For sure it’s Gen X–ers and young boomers who grew up to become those helicopter parents. For them it’s the inherent cynicism of glossed-over autonomy, shrinking reliance on democratic institutions such as schools or places of worship, or perhaps the sometimes-necessary chaos of divorce that gave way to being a different kind of parent than their own.
When self-quarantine can’t be maintained, social distancing in public is seen as the broadest and potentially most effective defense right now. Among other things, it champions keeping at least 6 feet between people. Large, even medium-sized gatheringsare now to be avoided, and that means birthday parties and weddings are being postponed. Pop-up anything is over as we know it for now. All that harkens back to a few decades ago when meet-ups and hookups took more coordination than just a text .
Arguably, baby boomers and their free-range, pre-technology childhoods are even better resourced when it comes to making do with less structure.
no problem here
Pfffft
I think you’re mistaking indifference for self soothing
Most definitely Dude!
I’ve been training my whole life for this crisis.
It's out of question that we are coping with it just fine ~
We're are not antisocial, we were preparing for 2020 for the last 45 years!
Remembering Santa Ynez Valley UHS and the clueless and naive adults in the 80s. Our HS snorted kilos of cocaine, bonged hit bail loads of bud, drank thousands of cases of cheap lager, smoked cloves and ate magic mushrooms. Being a latchkey kid is why I am a helicopter parent.
Agree.
Absolutely. We got this.
I don’t even know what this means anymore
I could easily live off catfood and poptarts for 6 months.
Yep!
Fuck yeah.
Is that even a question? lol… gen x has got this.
Uh yeah.
Maybe it's because I am Gen X that I'm never lonely and never bored
Stop asking nonsensical questions!!! Who knows?!
Can everything not be about generational differences FFS
Absolutely! GenX
Uh of course, we can read a book and/or listen to music without the internet
Apparently. Cause everyone has been freaking out except me haha.
i was born into self quarantine