Now is same. we definitely sacrified our youth mental health,jobs, starting a family dreams, starting salary, hopes, future retirement, cost of renting an apartment, never ever hopes of buying a place and confined them in small third-rate boomer-owned apartment so that old people don't die from covid. many more healthy young people will die from this than they could have died from covid.
it is our western society and leaders that made this choice for us because our olds own all the power (just look at trump and biden pelosi age). and western leaders made this decision just like japan elderly people made the choice to go clean fukushima reactor so that their youth doesn't die from doing it.
I guess people need to make a choice. what kind of society do we wish to live in.