Kids These Days!

The Washington Post reports:

One of the few mercies of the spreading coronavirus is that it leaves young children virtually untouched . . .

I may have to pull out my copy of Gas-s-s-s . . .

. . . Roger Corman’s 1970 satire about a world where everyone over 25 is killed when a deadly military gas leaks, leaving the young people to rebuild civilization.

Or reread Dave Willis’s 1964 novel Only Lover’s Left Alive * . . .

. . . in which the kids were also left behind by dying adults.

If the worst should happen, let’s hope Sham 69 . . .

. . . and The Who . . .

. . . are right.

Of course, The Who also famously declared, “I hope I die before I get old”:

Wash your hands!

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* Not the basis of Jim Jarmusch’s movie of the same name, but that’s another story for another time.