The title of this is clearly supposed to be clickbait but what I find interesting from personal (23, London) experience is that most people my age are taking this seriously in the sense we recognise it can get worse and are taking sensible precautions (hand sanitiser, I know a few people self-isolating just in case).
While a few days ago I was speaking to a Primary school teacher friend of my parents, who claimed that because the UK "only has a couple hundred cases, it's not worth worrying about at all" the angle of "Oh i've seen virus' before and it was okay" was very apparent.
Now I know these are 2 personal anecdotes but I do wonder if generally it could be the opposite of what the title suggests, people my age have faint memories of Swine Flu but not much before that so I feel like we could be taking it more seriously
Of course there are "Well it'll kill all the boombers so it's good" jokes going around, but they're exactly that a joke, for the generation that called millenials snowflakes some (I believe a minority personally) can't really take a joke
While a few days ago I was speaking to a Primary school teacher friend of my parents, who claimed that because the UK "only has a couple hundred cases, it's not worth worrying about at all" the angle of "Oh i've seen virus' before and it was okay" was very apparent.
Now I know these are 2 personal anecdotes but I do wonder if generally it could be the opposite of what the title suggests, people my age have faint memories of Swine Flu but not much before that so I feel like we could be taking it more seriously
Of course there are "Well it'll kill all the boombers so it's good" jokes going around, but they're exactly that a joke, for the generation that called millenials snowflakes some (I believe a minority personally) can't really take a joke