Many of you meanwhile have years of employment ahead of you and if the airlines don't bounce back you can do something else.
Christ almighty. Do you know how that sounds? The “many of you” can just come back with “you’ve got a massive pension and no mortgage so you can just retire and be fine”. How does that sound to you?
You’ve every right to keep working for as long as you feel you need to, but please don’t come out with such claptrap. And don’t pull someone up on their lack of empathy/understanding for your situation and then display a complete lack of understanding/empathy for everyone beneath you on the list with the hideous phrase you’ve used above.