Healthy Living Tricked Boomers into Thinking We’re Invincible

The generation that’s redefining old age is now being redefined by a virus

Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Forge
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6 min readMar 25, 2020

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Illustration: Heeje Min Heo

LLate at night a few weeks ago, I was about to turn off the light when I decided instead to grab my phone and catch up on the latest coronavirus news. This was in the early days of the pandemic — before shelter-in-place orders hit the…

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Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Forge
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Barb Bradley Hagerty is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, writing on psychology, law and (in)justice. Before that, she covered law and religion for NPR.