The society that is arranged in such a way that you no longer matter when you sit idle and unproductive somewhere lonely. Because society left you. Then there is a subconsciously pressure to “find” that life is complete because you don't want to bother anyone anymore.

Who is old, nowadays already if you were born before 1965, who is 55 plus, should know his place. Young people and older young people have the streets, businesses and media in their youthful hands. Everything is based on the group from 16 to 55 years old. Even the climate crisis was caused by the elderly. “You're taking the future away from us. “ When you're old, not only is your life completed in the past, but you're even wrong. In a few minutes, there will be trials against the silent generation, the baby boomers and Generation X. Bucked for us.

As a death slap for the old people, a new virus pops up in which the elderly and other vulnerable are more likely to be the victims. A virus apparently discriminates anyway. For a moment there is solidarity with the group, mainly to relieve the burden of care, but if the intelligent lockdown takes too long then the neoliberal social Darwinists come out of their homes to hand out the last blows.

Jort Basement has made it to the British press. The Daily Mail quotes 'TV personality' Jort Keller's statement against Omrop Fryslân, criticizing government measures that would be too focused on public health rather than the economy. 'We are saving over-80s who are too fat and smoked, 'says Basement in the interview.

The longer the intelligent lockdown takes, the more the pressure is put on older people to place themselves outside society.

Bernd Carpenter Historian/Sociologist

Who is old must know his place!