To my fellow young people: you are not owed anything
Despite President Donald Trump’s continued insistence that his administration has done a “great job” of handling the COVID-19 pandemic, cases of the virus are increasing drastically in many states, shattering previous records from the spring. Concerningly, this new surge in cases — which experts say is not in fact a second wave, but just an extension of the first — has been in part driven by the carelessness of young people, who, because they are less vulnerable to serious illness, feel no need to curtail their actions in order to protect themselves or their friends.