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I'm using a throwaway due to the medical nature of this topic. Covid was the beginning of the horrors of the west's increasingly "inverted demographic pyramid"
by disposablegeny 4y ago
I'm using a throwaway due to the medical nature of this topic.
Covid was the beginning of the horrors of the west's increasingly "inverted demographic pyramid" (i.e. too many olds). I worked my entire life to qualify to immigrate to a stable country and start a family. My wife fell pregnant during the pandemic shutdown and needed simple outpatient surgery to save the baby but it was considered "non-essential" and she was forced to pass the corpse on the toilet at home, with no friends or family allowed to visit and offer comfort. Thanks to complications from that experience, she is now barren. Everything we've worked towards since we were 15 gone.
Being a coder, I know a number of professional women whose last chance at a baby was an IVF window that closed during the lockdowns. I don't think they will ever mentally recover.
For reference, the average age of someone dying even "with" much less of Covid in my country is higher than the average life expectancy.
Covid is just the opening volley of the boomers finishing raiding the future to extend and improve their remaining years. I fully expect forced blood and organ donations in the next decade.
- yonaguska 4y agoI am so sorry for your loss.
- disposablegeny 4y agoI didn't expect kindness in a comment to hit me as it did. Thank you.
- fieryskiff11 4y ago[dead]