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I mean, really nothing you're posting here is changing my view that young people aren't sacrificing their economic well being for the sake of the health of boomers and the elderly.

 -k

Millions of people were out of work for years during the depression, and millions of those same people recovered financially, lived well, raised families, sent their kids to university. I myself was jobless and homeless st 50, unable to work for six months.  Four years later, I had a car, a townhouse, a decent (but not great) paying job.  Many people recover from financial devastation.  If you think your entire age cohort is forever screwed financially because some of them will be unemployed for a while, you are delusional. 

If you think Boomers are all sitting pretty on stock portfolios and vast real estate holdings, you are, again, delusional.   In 2017, the median income for people between 55 and 64 was just over $41,000.  For people 65+, it was $28,000.  Its true that I have this townhouse in a low-rent district of Metro Vancouver,  but I have nothing else and I suspect this crisis will wipe out any equity I've gained.  It looks like I'm destined to retire into poverty, which I think is preferable to dying during a pandemic. 

Your "sactifice" isn't saving Boomer riches, its saving our health care system and our front line medical staff.  An operational health care system is just as important for people who overdose on alcohol, get injured in a bar fight, a car accident, have a heart attack, appendicitis - or even for someone who just wants to give birth - as it is to an old fart who contracts covid.  If 10s of thousands of Canadians die or become unable to work, not just from Covid, but also because our health care system collapsed, do you think that's going to be good for the economy?

Yes, people are going to suffer, some more than others,  some will lose both job and loved ones.  If the worst is a few months or a couple of years of financial hardship - yeah it's tough - but there is no hardship worse than losing someone you love.