Responses to Covid-19 and to Environmental Destruction

[takno]

Why do you think that?
I’d have thought that couples spending more time together than normal due to lockdown could lead to a possible mini boom in a years time than the opposite?

Obviously there are examples of that happening in the past. I suspect that decent availability of contraception will make it less likely now. Besides Netflix doesn't watch itself, and DIY stores are open - there's a whole world more excuses to not get round to any such nonsense.

 

[Cowley]

Obviously there are examples of that happening in the past. I suspect that decent availability of contraception will make it less likely now. Besides Netflix doesn't watch itself, and DIY stores are open - there's a whole world more excuses to not get round to any such nonsense.

I think my mind needs a wash out with soap and water (and sanitizer).

 

[GRALISTAIR]

It is the short term nature of the virus that casues Politicians to act. In really really crude terms (and I am sorry for that but it is the only way to express it), they don't want the bodies stacking up on their watch. With climate change the bodies will be stacking up on someone else's watch way in to the future. With this they are stacking up today.

Sums it up nicely- I have never known politicians to think long term. In the west anyway, they are definitely short term thinking people.

 

[squizzler]

Why do you think that?
I’d have thought that couples spending more time together than normal due to lockdown could lead to a possible mini boom in a years time than the opposite?

I read somewhere that a survey found almost two thirds of the adult population have not had sex with another person since the start of so-called lockdown.

The decision to start a family is for most people nowadays a choice and depends on the amount of confidence the population has in the future. For example if you look at Russia it has suffered population loss and low birth rates since the Soviet Union collapsed. That is why the virus is affecting them disproportionately: it is effectively a continent sized old folks home.

 

[geoffk]

Why do you think that?
I’d have thought that couples spending more time together than normal due to lockdown could lead to a possible mini boom in a years time than the opposite?

But fewer new couples will have been getting together!