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Hello fellow boomers. Yes, you, and you, and moi, the over-60s, it’s time to delete the Me, Myself and I app we received at birth. Unlike our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents who faced, waged and won two world wars, we have never faced anything more unpleasant than New Coke, Bill 101 and the Beatles splitting up.

(No, I won’t cancel irony.)

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But just as we were supposed to ease into retirement on a beach, a golf course or in a swanky condo, the human race got hit by a pandemic, due to a virus we know little about, for which, at the present time, exists no approved remedy, with a preventive vaccine at least a year away.

Thank God we live in an educated, advanced, resource-rich and democratic society. No one here will drink cow urine to fight off the virus, as it’s been reported people have done in India. No state official will weld our doors shut like we saw in China. We have all the reasons in the world to hope that Canada will be spared the worst, but, then, it comes down to us.