boomer remover

From being an agent that removes baby boomers from the living population, i.e. kills them (see quotations, below).

boomer remover (uncountable)

1. (slang, humorous, derogatory) COVID-19 (“disease”) and/or SARS-CoV-2 (“virus”)
   • 2020 March 16, SliverMcSilverson, “Anyone else seeing this”, in Reddit‎:

     We’re being instructed to return COVID possible patients back to their “3 per room” SNF prior to receiving test results. […] Fuck, they're taking #boomerremover seriously

   • 2020 March 17, Anne Acuña, “Internet riled up over cruel new Gen-Z, Millennial clapback calling COVID-19 as ‘Boomer Remover’”, in InqPop!‎:

     On February 29 this year, Twitter user @nurselietv posted the tweet “I heard someone call the coronavirus the ‘boomer remover’.”

   • 2021, Bronwen Lichtenstein, “From “Coffin Dodger” to “Boomer Remover”: Outbreaks of Ageism in Three Countries With Divergent Approaches to Coronavirus Control”, in The Journals of Gerontology, series b‎, →DOI:

     Ageism has been blamed for islands of death in nursing homes (Mueller, 2020), and for a spike in intergenerational animosity, as captured in internet epithets such as “grandma/grandpa killer,” “boomer remover,” and “boomer doomer” (pre-Covid-19; “coffin dodger”).

   • 2021 March 30, Surgical Sister, Twitter‎, archived from the original on March 30, 2021:

     This was supposed to be the #BoomerRemover .... they truly are the worst generation.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:boomer remover.

• OK, boomer