California Fertility Rates Show Surprising Trends During The Pandemic

3 years ago by tintory to c/politics

In the thick of 2020, when COVID-19 was unearthing vast unemployment and breeding global uncertainty, the U.S. saw a peculiar trend. Instead of the anticipated sharp decline, fertility rates dropped only marginally. Key takeaways from a new study, The COVID-19 baby bump in the United States (Martha J. Bailey,
tintory 21 points 3 years ago

Apparently increasing social spending and work flexibility is great for American Families. Who knew?

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rarely 12 points 3 years ago

Stop the population decline? Is this some nazi-centric great replacement bullshit? Our population and birth rates are fine. What the hell kind of propaganda is this?!

edit: maybe this is just a poorly-choosen domain name.

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tintory 10 points 3 years ago

Have you even read the article

More evidence is popping up that increased social spending and flexible work arrangements, including remote work, can positively impact fertility rates, as shown in California. Yet, influential figures in California like Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley "pronatalists", are against these measures and more. Their opposition to remote work, work flexibility, and social spending, coupled with efforts to hamper new infrastructure projects and drive up housing costs. They will not make it easy to do what's needed.

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rarely -7 points 3 years ago

Nope because I am not interested in the article, I am commenting about the site itself. I did visit the site and click around a bit.

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tintory 2 points 3 years ago

Nothing on the site, nothing, is related to that insane right wing nonsense

It just keeps hammering in is the need for more Social Spending, YIMBYism, and Mental Health

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rarely -1 points 3 years ago

Ok, then why the domain name? Why the name of the site? Where is this decline?

I mean, at some point in this chart, the admin of the site decided “stoppopulationdecline” was the brand they were going to go with.. and yet, I see no point in this chart where the population was declining.

The only folks I hear talking about the decline of population usually refer to the decline fo the white population.

From what I’ve seen, population decline is usually discussed in terms of birth rates, and less so on the current population declining due deaths. If this site is refering to an increase in deaths as population decline, we would think we would see it on the graph.

It just may be an unfortunate name chosen. It certainly raises my BS alarm.

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tintory 4 points 3 years ago

You really didn’t read the article

points out that African American women had it harder during the COVID crisis, the brunt of the crisis's financial and health impacts, and we need serious policies to address.

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rarely -5 points 3 years ago

That's ok, I am not commenting on the article. I am commenting on the site itself, trying to determine the sort of agenda it tries to push.

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tintory 2 points 3 years ago

Then why did you accuse it of being a Nazi site????

It might be pushing agenda but that agenda clearly isn’t conservative

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rarely 1 point 3 years ago

I didn't call it a nazi site. I was referring to the great replacement theory, which is a nazi theory. Clearly the domain name collided with that theory but it isn't the meaning of the site.

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MotoAsh 3 points 3 years ago
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rarely 3 points 3 years ago

I thought the same and it may be the case still, but skimming the site's content doesn't suggest overt rhetoric. There may be that bias in the agenda somewhere but it seems to focus on human rights issues and not the great replacement theory. Unfortunate domain name, I guess. See my other discussions with op on this link.

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MotoAsh 4 points 3 years ago
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tintory 1 point 3 years ago

Like what?

Please tell me oh wise one

Tell me what in this site has Nazi rhetoric because as far as I know Nazis hate spending money on the poor

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rarely 3 points 3 years ago

I am going to guess they did what I did and assumed the domain name had to do with the great replacement theory.

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tintory -1 points 3 years ago

Yep

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MotoAsh 1 point 3 years ago
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just_another_person -5 points 3 years ago

Corporate. We'll probably never find out who funds this shit, but let's just say Bezos and co have a good reason to keep the population replenishment as it is.

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tintory 3 points 3 years ago

So Jeff Bezos now supports WFH, YIMBYism, increasing social spending, and other good stuff?

Since when?

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just_another_person -2 points 3 years ago

Opposite, obviously.

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Crozekiel 1 point 3 years ago

Does it scare anyone else that our society seems to completely rely on there always being more people tomorrow than yesterday? It just isn't sustainable. There are too many people on this planet already, and we are seeing the effects of it worse every day...

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tintory 0 points 3 years ago

Don’t worry!

Republicans are hellbent to decrease social spending, stop woke RTO, and all the stuff that helps people achieve their family goals!

They will make sure that no policy that will increase family size gets implemented

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TokenBoomer 0 points 3 years ago

Population decline due to overshoot is known as 'collapse'. The path taken by such a population is referred to as 'overshoot-and-collapse'. Collapse, like overshoot, can occur due to various factors, with the Malthusian catastrophe being a specific but not identical case. Source.

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