Well since someone needs things spelled out to them because they don’t understand context, I’ll do it just for you.
Age was mentioned because most of the Internet trends younger so there were inevitably going to be comments about “well you probably weren’t old enough to remember”, no, I very much was
link between the pandemic, mass shootings and this was due to all of them were large death experiences, didn’t matter the cause, it’s the fact that we’ve become so accustomed to death through our (in)action leaves people jaded.
I don’t even know where you get the “cool-story-bro” part unless you’re just trying to sound “cool” yourself.