The lockdowns were justified in the name of old people, yes. That doesn't mean old people were the ones calling for them.

Appeals to grandma weren't targetted at baby boomers; their grandmas are long dead already. The baby boomers are the grandmas the rhetoric referenced.

I understand that. Regardless of who the rhetoric referenced, it was not propagated primarily by old people.

Just like arguments to “think of the children” are almost never made by children themselves.