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And other even more effective methods of birth control.
Not surprised of the non-existent baby-boom as a lot of people apparently kept their masks at home and even kept their distance, which shouldn't help with procreation.
One might look for actual numbers rather than taking a poll with one's acquaintances but perhaps some might have been hesitant to become pregnant in the midst of a pandemic.
originally posted by: coamanach
a reply to: Phage
Well this is a discussion board and not a scientific research, and that's pretty much what I said about people not wanting to procreate because of the pandemic by following severe rules.
I said about people not wanting to procreate because of the pandemic by following severe rules.
Coronials is the name popularly given to the kids being born in 2020. Some people state that this shall be the name for those being born during the COVID-19 pandemic (the babies born in the whole year 2020), the kids that will know the post-Corona world and not any other.
Some other vocabulary users prefer to name this way to the babies conceived during the pandemic (the babies that will be born by the end of 2020 and 2021.
Is this neologism going to stay or was it just a fun hype during the pandemic? Only time will tell.
....with spread recommendations or strict obligation to #stayathome, there were enough couples locked at their houses.
Those who didn’t have kids had the best opportunity to enjoy the relationship and time enough for romance. It’s easy to fantasize about a lot of sex behind the walls and that lots of babies will be conceived during the quarantine. At least this is an easy joke, right? This half naughty half cute idea spread throughout the internet and there were theories stating that there would be a baby boom taking place by the end of 2020 and 2021.
This shall be more a fantasy than a reality.
In 2020, the world faced an unknown scary situation and an out-of-scale economical crisis. Historically, during controversial periods or with economical retraction people tend not to have kids (as happened during the big recession in the 1930s).
There is another certainty: the babies born in 2020/2021 are born in a very different world than those born ever before. The world is rapidly changing and some differences are here to stay.
Some authors imagine a beautiful new generation of resilient adults to come, others have more fearful thoughts and describe the people of the future as hygiene freaks that are scared of classmates, relatives and neighbors because they see them as vectors of contagion.