https://nitter.snopyta.org/CBSNews/status/1366966438406328323?s=19

  • mittens [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "We thought, oh, we would see a baby boom. But we just haven't seen it," said Dr. David Jaspan, chair of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.

    lol researchers were really expecting that people, amidst a pandemic and under the most economic uncertainty in like a century, were going to think "yep, time for babby, right now. let's go"

    • Randomdog [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      People who are bored and stuck at home with nothing else to do but rawdog their roomies...

      • The_word_of_dog [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Lol I've doubled up on protection since the pandemic. Even keeping plan b around the apartment because holy shit fuck having a kid right now

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Hi, we atomised society into tiny cubes and now we expect moneyless frontline workers share housing with one another to closely interact with one another and have children, rather than lock themselves in a cupboard for 13 months.