Airline Pilot Central Forums - A Word From The Young People

This message is sponsored by the young folks (sub 25) who were really trying to make it and were months away from launching into the lives we were building. I'm lucky enough to have a full set of four grandparents, all alive and well. Now, I want to protect them as I realize they are vulnerable. But whether or not I (very young person) am out at bars or in stadiums with other young/healthy people, still has ZERO affect on my grandparents. We are smart enough to keep two thoughts in our heads at once.
1. Two 21 year olds should NOT be social distancing at bars with masks between plexiglass, COVID is nothing to us statistically.
2. My grandparents should NOT be in that bar.

Right now we put my grandparents on delivery services to keep them safe inside. Whether or not I'm watching a game in Yankee Stadium or locked up in my apartment losing my mind, in both scenarios I'm not doing grammy and grandpy visits afterward. So why am I still inside!? Cuomo would always talk about his mother and how COVID may be nothing to me but it will kill her... well guess what, I've never met his mother nor will I ever! Keep her inside, not me.

This is setting up an entire generation for loss to save a generation who already had prosperity.

Savings that were going toward buying houses, paying down debt or paying for another degree is gone forever. Our lives could've gone on as normal while all the oldies and vulnies stayed home anyway. It's not fair that people like myself who worked tirelessly and have been saddled with debt, now face an additional obstacle of gaining all the ground back to save people who didn't take care of themselves in the first place (i.e. those who smoked for 30 years or couldn't stop putting cookies in the facehole).

I can't express how much it hurt to watch my sister's wedding get postponed indefinitely while in the same month she lost her job. Now, the house savings she had built is depleting and unemployment is running out. She dealt with depression all her life and was finally experiencing a life without antidepressants because things were coming together for her. I have to check in on her everyday and it kills me to watch her fall back into depression. It chokes me up just writing it.

I'm lucky enough to have a strong mental capacity for poo hitting the fan but I lost all my savings too. I've talked to too many friends falling into pharmaceuticals to cope with the stress of the life they just built coming apart. Student loans don't stop. I guarantee they will never come off of those drugs either.

This is the crux of the post. A generation of loss. There's no focus on the long term effects of this. It's more than just curves and CFR's. Single mom's who were going back to school to get advanced degrees in order to obtain higher paying jobs so that her children could have access to universities later in life, can no longer afford it. Health insurance tied to jobs are being erased. Relationships are ending. Savings are depleted. The young person bubble burst is coming, I have a countdown of when I can't pay rent anymore. Hell, I even swing trade the stock of the airline I dreamed to work for in order to pay for food. 6 months of savings and income loss equals 6 years of recovery for us. So if I ever hear someone talk about the "entitlement" of Gen Z or millennials, I will promptly slap them across the jowls. Let's save the oldies, but let's not kill the young ones in the process. Please.