Corona Virus and the declining birth rate and what it all means?

 Corona Virus and the declining birth rate and what it all means?

The birth rate is falling.


When the pandemic first took hold in the U.S., many joked that widespread lockdowns would spark a "baby boom" and sky-high birth rates. But nearly a year later, the opposite appears to be true.

Provisional birth rate data provided to CBS News by 29 state health departments shows a roughly 7.3% decline in births in December 2020, nine months after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. California, the most populous state, reported a 10.2% decline, falling to 32,910 births in December from 36,651 the year prior. In the same time frame, births declined by 30.4% in Hawaii.

While birth rates have been falling for nearly a decade, Phil Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, said December's drop was the biggest he's seen since the baby boom ended in 1964.

"The scale of this is really large," Cohen said in a telephone interview with CBS News. "Regardless of whether you think it's good or bad to have a lot of children, the fact that we're suddenly having fewer means things are not going well for a lot of people."

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This is unprecedented. The psychological affect of this are profound. This is not good news for peoples future and how they think of the future. If people have more kids they are optimistic of the future and what it will provide if not they don't, we are now like Europe and most of the Western World.

If the birth rate starts rising again we can be confident on the the future and a rising economy. If the birth rate keeps declining the end of the Welfare State is finished. 

Who will get the blame?

The science will get the blame. Ever sense the corona virus has been with us, the science and the people who represent scientists have been equally divided much like the United States is equally divided.

The scientists and politicians will get blamed for doing to much or to little.

Just six months ago Governor Cuomo and Governor Newsom were heroes in the eyes of the public now both are finished. 

Fauci and the scarf lady disappeared into the night not to be seen again by the public.

The longer the lockdowns remain the more the public will protest will persist.

The more skepticism will remain for people who don't trust the scientists.

This is good news for people who love liberty, so have more kids and be prosperous!


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