I’ll admit that, at first, I thought the memes flying around social media during the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak were hilarious.
An eye-roll from Ethan Hawke or a shrug from Winona Ryder was the perfect way to encapsulate how Gen X was meeting this moment. “Sit on your couch and stay the fuck at home!” we laughed. “We’ve been doing it our whole lives!”But as the outbreak grew and then took hold, paralyzing entire cities and communities, I stopped being able to find the humor in it, not just because the virus was terrifying and seemingly everywhere, but because Gen Xers, in the middle of our lives, were now in a particularly precarious position—worrying about our parents, who were both more vulnerable to the virus and seemed slow in.
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