In over 30 years of practice, Dr. Errol Billinkoff rarely saw a man without kids come into his Winnipeg clinic to get a vasectomy. But since the pandemic began, he says it’s become an almost daily occurrence.

And he’s not alone.

“At first, I thought I was the only one who was noticing this,” Billinkoff, who brought a no-scalpel vasectomy procedure to Winnipeg in the early 1990s, told CBC News in a November interview.

“But I am part of an international chat group where doctors who do vasectomies participate and the topic came up, and it’s like everybody notices it.”

  • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.caEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    This is what happens when you can’t afford raising kids and also more and more people decide that they would rather just enjoy their life without the responsibility or or financial burden of raising kids. I don’t know how i feel about this due to the our birth rate not doing so well, and instead of people having children, we have to import people into the country (which i have no problem with but that really isn’t a solution).

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
      206·
      2 days ago

      that really isn’t a solution

      why not? are you afraid of johnny whitebread “real” murican canadian getting…replaced?

      the fact that the 1% is shitting their pants over the declining birthrate makes me think it’s fan fucking tastic. every industry’s profit margin suffers from fewer babies. less money is spent on food, gas, clothes, giant SUVs, toys, medicine–literally everything you buy for yourself, you’re also buying for your kids for 18 years. unless you don’t have kids.

      those poor, poor shareholders.

      fuck them. low birthrate = GOOD.

      also, please–who wants to have a kid just so they can explain to them why they’re growing up in a toxic wasteland?

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        92·
        2 days ago

        why not? are you afraid of johnny whitebread “real” murican canadian getting…replaced?

        It’s not a solution because, with a few exceptions, standards of living (and therefore reasons to not immigrate) are rising in most of the world, so in a few decades there likely won’t be enough migrants to go around.

        those poor, poor shareholders.

        If it looks like only shareholders are having problems because of low birthrates in Japan and South Korea, then you should learn more about those places.

      • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.caEnglish
        51·
        2 days ago

        i’m not sure why you brought race into this, when there is multiple multigenerional multicultural people in this country. I don’t think its a requirement that everyone has to have a child, but the way you are talking makes it sound like its a good thing our species wipes itself out. I get how you feel about CEOs and stuff, but i was just stating that why our birthrate was low, and what the goverment has done to fix that.

        • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          makes it sound like its a good thing our species wipes itself out

          not necessarily a good thing, but we are indeed wiping ourselves out, for better or worse. sure, future generations might fix all the multitudes of problems we’ve caused (doubt), but how many will have to die in the process?

          evangelists love to call people who don’t want kids “selfish.” on the contrary, it’s the polar opposite of selfish to deny our own reptilian brain instincts to pass on our genes because we don’t think it’s a moral decision to bring innocent children to life in this soon-to-be-uninhabitable broken hellscape