2020… The year of the geriatrics!👴 👵

I don’t want to hate on old people too much but it’s telling when both of the major candidates for president are well in their 70s and the Coronavirus disease that has ground the economy and our lives to a halt primarily attacks the elderly. As cold as it might seem, the virus might be nature’s way of taking out the trash, even if it’s a rather indiscriminate on who gets culled.

American society has gotten long in the tooth, we need more young people with fresh new ideas, and for elderly to move out of center stage. It’s absurd that the next leader of the free world is likely to have grown up in the 1950s and 1960s. Old people should retire and enjoy their final years, and let young people have a chance at building a good life and realize that maybe their time has come to move on.

For too long human lifespans have been increasing to arguably excessive numbers of years, going forward we should settle on better quality but shorter lives with fewer work years and earlier retirements and more dynamicism in our country and our economy. If people could be content with fewer but better years than we all could be a lot more happy.