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This might be ill-informed, but if it goes out of control, wouldn't it reshape worldwide demographics? Young and old would die at different rates. That seems li
by asperous 7y ago
This might be ill-informed, but if it goes out of control, wouldn't it reshape worldwide demographics? Young and old would die at different rates. That seems like the potential biggest impact.
- lazyjones 7y agoAlso, poor (people and countries) would suffer more.
- Polylactic_acid 7y agoImagine the political change that would occur from half of the boomers being wiped out.
- malloryerik 7y agoWouldn't it be more like ten percent of boomers? But the effect might be different you'd expect as fear of disease pushed society to adopt more conservative, insular moods.
- dirtyid 7y agoA virus that disproportionately "culls" the elderly is useful eliminating unsustainable health care costs, and in China's case, the impending demographic crisis (growing old before growing rich). Though ideally that shift happens after 2040. Right now, it would shift voting patterns to bias towards younger generations. Which incidentally goes against Chinese short-term interests since the elder cohorts in HK and Taiwan are the only ones with pro PRC / reunion sentiments. Quarantine also killed the 2020 5-year plan of doubling 2010 real GDP which required 6% growth. I'll leave others to extrapolate what dead boomers mean for western societies.