Expected COVID-19 baby boom is looking to instead be a bust

Data provided to CBS News by 29 states shows births dropped by about 7.3% in December 2020, nine months after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.

— News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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The expected COVID-19 baby boom is looking to instead be a bust.

Many had expected to see at least a baby boomlet fueled given pandemic restrictions greatly limiting the opportunities for unbound social intercourse hooking up or doing so bound if that floats consenting adults’ boat.

Statistics to date indicate otherwise, however. 

In turn, these same pundits are now walking back their predictions as well as others are now chiming in with keen senses of the obvious theories such that couples are worried about the future and so holding off on having a baby.

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At the same time, however, as near as Quincy Quarry can see no one has bothered to check the sales of contraceptives. 

Granted, the COVID-19 pandemic has swived all manner of supply chains, especially for condoms, but there are ways to handicap sales data as well as estimate actual use after factoring out only to be braggadocio.

In any event, Quincy Quarry has two theories as to why the birth dearth.

One is that hooking up, be it with dating couples who are not living together or just hooking up, has taken a hit care of COVID-19.

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And probably even more significantly, surely few things are more lethal for the libidos of cohabitating couples than the new normal of 24/7/365 familiarity posed by the pandemic.  Between working remoting casual wear to a COVID-15 weight gain, few things are bigger turn-offs.

Source: The COVID baby boom is looking more like a baby bust

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