Statistically COVID killed the elderly and the obese and had other co-morbidities. Statistically COVID dead would have died a few months later. For example we can see in Nursing Home deaths that they were high due to COVID. Then they dipped a little as those who would have died in 2022 had already died “before their time”.
As COVID deaths were not among the child bearing, they did not affect the long term population trend. In other words: COVID was real....but it was not the earth-shaking.
In the US population trend depends on
#1 Are we optimistic or pessimistic. It we think global warming and lack of courtesy to the swamp will continue to occur, we will have have babies.... except with the dumb hookup who isn’t on the pill.
If we are optinistic that God is in control and loves his children then we will have babies.
A secondary factor is immigrants. But again, if they are optimistic that their life in the US will be better than back home they will have babies. If they think the US is becoming the Bannana Republic they left then they will not have children.
Bill gates ‘vaxxed’ some African villages with a different vax, leaving the girls sterile. There is a loving God but this world is tormented by the Prince and the Powers of this air whom we set free with our own decision to depart from God’s will. The pastor of our church said the fall from grace was entirely our fault, and created a ‘sin bomb’resulting in disease and evil God did not create.
Your statistics are overly optimistic. Disproportionate deaths are being exposed by insurance company’s and Tucker Carlson’s interview with someone about extreme statistical impacts starting in 2021 with the release of the vax, including sky rocketing disability and deaths.