Heffernan: Less sex, more insecurity -- a pandemic baby bust is coming (via latimesopinion)
. It’s anybody’s guess how many will die before this thing “ends,” a concept many now consider meaningless., some 40% of the nation’s COVID-19 deaths have been linked to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
The U.S. isn’t alone in its heart-sinking tally among the elderly. Public health officials in Europe, according to the New York Times, ignored warnings about the vulnerability of senior communities and went so far as toThis dispiriting decline in births and rise in deaths will add to a century-longin the U.S. That is, our numbers still increase year over year, but not our rate of growth, a slowdown furthered in the last four years by Trump’s draconian and white-nationalist immigration policies.
that the nation’s annual growth rate was at its lowest since the influenza pandemic of 1918. Slower even than during the Great Depression.At least Americans won’t reduce the population further by leaving these shores anytime soon, as much as we might want to escape. COVID-19 is so rampant here that most other nations won’t allow Americans to cross their borders for a visit, let alone to immigrate.
When people take a chance on physical intimacy, they express faith in the future. When we raise children, take care of our elders and welcome strangers, we live out our nation’s baseline moral commitments. The signs that America, under Trump, cannot care for itself — and maybe just doesn’t care for itself — are too obvious to ignore.
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