Current Events > Not Since 1900, More People DIED in MICHIGAN than gave BIRTH cause of COVID!!

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For the first time since 1900, More people DIED in Michigan in 2020 than were BORN after COVID-19 dramatically increased the number of deaths!!

The Michigan Dept of Health and Human Services shws that 117,087 people died in the year compared to 104,166 births

The death rate was driven by 11,362 covid deaths which is 6% higher than the 99,000 annual deaths was averaging for the last few eyars although experts say even without the pandemic the state would hit a similar death rate eventually within the next few years

Kurt Metzger, a demographer and director of Data Driven Detroit said "This is not a shock. We've been talking about this coming for some time now. We're at a point we have to do something about it"

It's shown that for decades Michigan has had a declining birth rate while deaths have risen. The birth rate peaked at 1957 when more than 208,000 babies were born but has been on a steady decline since

The total population also shrank and the natural decrease will be even bigger in 2021 with 17,000 fewer people in July 2021 than it did in July 2020

It could lead to economic issues making it difficult for the state to retain jobs and limiting steady stream of employees to run businesses

New companies will also not consider states that get smaller and opt for bigger populations for bigger returns as Michigan also lost a house seat because it was not growing as fast

Reynolds Farley said having a smaller population is not inherently bad but adjusting to it will be a tremendous challenge such as closing schools and combining districts

COVID-19 is driving the daily american death toll higher than it did during delta's wave despite being less lethal but because it causes more infections and more people to be infected will lead to more deaths

The US is approaching 900,000 deaths where it is at right now 882,870 and the new Omicro variant is to blame as Andrew Noymer, a public health professor believes it will reach 1,000,000 in due time

Does the higher death rate than the birth rate worry you?

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Imagine living in the wasteland called Michigan and wanting to have children there.
I don't know if COVID is entirely to blame to be honest.

but but its just the flu

I love how Duckbear always fits the perfect headline in the 80 character limit

Kegran posted...

Imagine living in the wasteland called Michigan and wanting to have children there.
I don't know if COVID is entirely to blame to be honest.

It will go full circle at some point when real estate hits rock bottom. I would never want to live in Detroit or Flint but there has to be some nice towns there if you can get used to the winters. It's probably a fishing and wildlife paradise. I'm sure its like any other state where there is just pockets of bad surrounded by wide open land and friendly people.

kelemvor posted...

friendly people.

Not in Flint or Detroit though.

Kegran posted...

Not in Flint or Detroit though.

Those were the two cities I excluded, if you read my post.

I had a friend to lived in Anne Arbor and he seemed to like it.

Kegran posted...

Imagine living in the wasteland called Michigan and wanting to have children there.
I don't know if COVID is entirely to blame to be honest.

Western Michigan is lovely. Lots of great beach and resort towns.

im sure they were all antivaxers, acceptable

Full Throttle posted...

Does the higher death rate than the birth rate worry you?

It doesn't worry me, but it was predictable.

There used to be a say...As goes Detroit, so goes The Nation.
...You don't hear that too much anymore.

Messed up. But according to Republicans "we need to move on from COVID"

Ann Arbor is alright but a little too uppity. Detroit is great if you know where to stick to.

Looking at the trend of the graph, it appears it wouldve happened in the next couple of years, Covid or no Covid. Covid just sped it up.

Rip michigan. It is over