Citations:boomer remover

English citations of boomer remover

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2020 March 13, Andrew Whalen, “What is ‘Boomer Remover’ and Why is it Making People so Angry?”, in Newsweek‎^[1]:
"Boomer Remover," a mean nickname for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, began trending on Twitter early Friday.

2020, Michael Schulman, "Convincing Boomer Parents to Take the Coronavirus Seriously", The New Yorker, 16 March 2020:
Some less charitable youngsters have even renamed the virus the “boomer remover.”

2020 March 19, Hannah Sparks, “Morbid ‘boomer remover’ coronavirus meme only makes millennials seem more awful”, in New York Post‎^[2]:
And despite the fact that nearly 40% of coronavirus-related hospitalizations in the US have occurred in patients younger than 54, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the disease is hitting older adults much harder: 80% of deaths associated with the illness were among those 65 and older. Hence, “boomer remover” is now officially a trending meme.

2020, Deborah Paul, "Sign this coronavirus social distancing pledge spearheaded by a Palos Verdes Peninsula teen", Palos Verdes Peninsula News, 26 March 2020:
They think the “boomer remover” doesn’t apply to the under 25 crowd, but a recent Center for Disease Control report shows up to 20 percent of people hospitalized with the novel coronavirus in the U.S. are young adults.
2020, Katharine Murphy, "After the coronavirus, Australia and the world can never be the same again", The Guardian, 27 March 2020:
Unless you are young and sanguine enough to believe coronavirus is either a beat-up or a “boomer remover” and therefore it’s business as usual, you are either ill or deeply anxious about getting ill and infecting others.
2020, Janice Carmac, "Janice Carmac, Week 3: Quarantined with teens, three weeks in", Greensboro News & Record, 4 April 2020:
Her grandfather dropped off a few rolls of toilet paper one morning. “Hope you don’t get the boomer remover,” Noël wrote in the thank you note I had the girls compose. I asked my husband if she should reword the card and he said no. It seemed funny two weeks ago.