Beebo Brink
Climate Apocalypse Alarmist
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My best guess would be (extrapolating outward from my own advancing age), that the older you are, the less likely you are to give up your remaining sources of pleasure. Awareness of impending mortality probably leads to a certain pragmatism: enjoy myself before I die, which is going to happen soon anyway, so what the hell.
I'm socially isolating as directed, but this is not a hardship for me since I'm pretty close to being a recluse already. And I also have a reasonable chance of living at least another 10 years if COVID-19 doesn't get me. If I were 85 years old and very social, the math would work out quite differently.
I'm socially isolating as directed, but this is not a hardship for me since I'm pretty close to being a recluse already. And I also have a reasonable chance of living at least another 10 years if COVID-19 doesn't get me. If I were 85 years old and very social, the math would work out quite differently.
This doesn't appear to be a matter of awareness of their status. Daoust cites a survey of US residents done by Pew that indicates the elderly are more likely to consider COVID-19 a serious crisis and threat to people's health. Given how frequently it's emphasized by public health authorities in other countries, it's likely that the United States isn't unique in this regard. Yet these individuals don't appear to be acting on this knowledge.