Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 30, 2020

I haven’t heard anyone else bring that up yet. Good point, Arlo!

If you’re able to get pregnant from 6 feet apart, I must salute BOTH your targeting skills!

Some of us have. They’ll be called the Quaranteens!

If you think the New York blackout made a run at it just wait. How many kids will be named after it in some form or other?

The law of unintended consequences never fails.

The time between now and nine months from now is the pregnant pause.

Nine months from now there will be many babies born from the stay at home order.

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“Mommy, why did you name my sister Winter?”

“Because she was born after a very cold winter.”

“And why did you name Brandy that.”

“Because she was a side-effect of an especially good bottle of brandy.”

“That explains a lot.”

“Now go clean up before dinner, Quarantine.”

Hell, I doubt our Dear Leader thought beyond his next Big Mac.

I thought of that. I wonder about a spike in domestic violence?

O Pause, Men!

Maybe a little brother or sister for Gene?

Every aspect has been beaten to death. In the WaPo, there was conjecture about births and divorce in the same article.

I’ve been thinking about it since the beginning. Although, I’m guessing that Arlo and Janis are out of the competition :DI was listening to an interview with Max Brooks. He was talking about how the government can redistribute resources to get things done if needed. for example, State A needs rubber gloves but can’t make them, State B can but it has no extra Latex to produce that much, and State C has stores of Latex in its condom factory. Problem solved! And I was thinking “Yeah! Today! Be prepared for Baby-Boom in Christmas!!!” :D

Okay, boomer-lets?

I said it on FB awhile back that that we’ll soon be witnessing the birth of the Coronial generation…

I seen them referred to as the Covid Boomers.

Although in the previous instances cited so far, knowledge and availability of birth control was less than it is today.

The gap seems to have closed. This is the first comic I’m read that has started talking about the pandemic.

and apparently there’s a condom shortage due to factory shutdowns in Asia !!!

My mother worked in the nursery at the hospital. She always said that 9 months after a blizzard that kept everyone home from work they’d have a baby boom. That’s what’s going to happen 9 months from now as well.

And in 2034 all those kids born in 2021 will be called the Quaranteeners.

If there is a baby boom in nine months it will be first borne children. No one stuck at home with kids is thinking “Gee, we need more kids”

OK, so Jimmy’s production lead is about three weeks. It’s good to be ahead, usually.

He could be talking babies or the fact that this is all still going on 9 months from now

It was about 2 weeks ago I said to Gayle, so there is going to be a run on Ob/Gyn in December…

Back here in New England, after the Blizzard of 1978, there was an increase in births. Some hospitals were giving out baby shirts that said " I am a blizzard baby".

We were discussing that and some one proposed that 13 years and 9 months from now we’ll have the Quaranteen generation

Is it just me, or is this the first reference to this virus situation in cartoons? I know there is lag time, and many of us see different cartoons. I’m wondering if writers were avoiding the subject. Not Jimmy!

From millenials to coronials

I have seen it mentioned on Facebook.

Mom, Dad? Why did you name me “Corona”?

13 years from now we’ll have the Quaranteens

I suppose it’s inevitable, but I can’t see how anyone would think it’s a good idea to go through a pregnancy and have a kid when we’re in the midst of a once-in-a-century health care and economic crisis.

I’m going to question Janis using lettuce in a salad now. How are you supposed to clean lettuce, to make sure you don’t get the virus from it?

“Baby Boomers” start, as a group, 9 months after VJ Day….

“Corona” is a good name for girls – I guess you’d have to name the boys “virus.”

It will be clashing with the second wave of infections and there will be very few midwives, and neither nurses nor MDs, and no ICUs available. 2020 will be the year with the highest infant mortality rate of the whole century worldwide.

As it turns out (speaking in April 2021), demographers now realize there was a sizable “baby BUST” in 2020— not a baby “boom”. And world-wide, not only in the US. Nobody is sure of all the reasons yet, but economic uncertainty probably is one. Some people also wonder “should we bring a new baby into this world?”. Though the world has clearly had worse conditions in it than we have now, later in the pandemic. Think 1348 (huge bubonic plague pandemic); early Depression years in the 1930’s; 1943; maybe even 2009 (when the world’s financial system seemed to possibly be collapsing— unlike now).