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Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months agoThe one child policy has been abolished a good while before covid.
Comment on Jet Fuel
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months agoThe one child policy has been abolished a good while before covid.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 3 months ago
That doesn’t change the distribution of demographics by itself. Even assuming the birth rate skyrocketed after the nixing of the one child policy, it takes ~20 years before those people are working age.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
The big problem China faced and why the one-child policy was abandoned after all is that there was a staunch focus on having a male child to “keep the bloodline alive” (cultural reasoning) which led to a stagnation in the 0-14 years age group.
Covid was most deadly for the age group of 65 and above and in 2019, they had proportionally less people aged 65+ than the US (13.50% in China vs. 16.4% in the US). Either China’s scientists failed immensely or the virus stemmed from bad health care practices in livestock markets selling bats.