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In this context it doesn't matter if boomers actually did something.
It's saying this is a situation that makes them react as a boomer typically would.
Which is basically how someone experiencing acute lead poisoning would react.
Kids born today have a fraction of the lead exposure, but compare them to hypothetical kids born 40 years from now, and there's going to be the same reduction in lead levels. So forty years from now and we'll still see older generations "acting boomer" about stuff.
That's just the timescale it takes after banning leaded gas in the 70s. All that lead was still coating everything and bouncing around the environment. And it was at such high levels that it going to take a very long time for shit to go back to normal.
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And in all likelihood new stuff like micro plastics in the brain are fucking up the kids too.
I wouldn't bet the farm on this one with the way things are headed.