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As they said, it was kind of inevitable regardless of Covid. Covid's hastened it along a bit, but the post-WWII Baby Boom happened 70-75 years ago. That means those people are getting toward the point of dying of simple old age. Covid's obviously throwing a wrinkle into it by killing a chunk of them off prematurely, but we can otherwise expect the death rate to accelerate for another 10-20 years.

On the flip side, birth rates are down partially because so many young people can't afford kids, and partially because many just plain don't want them and that's more socially acceptable now than ever before. Birth rates are especially low amid the considerable uncertainty of Covid, since a lot of families are holding off on having kids until things are more stable.