[zelienople]

We often exclude obvious apects of natural selection in these studies. In this case, the decision to have children during a pandemic may be indicative of a predisposition to poor mental functioning in the parents, which would naturally result in poorer cognitive function, on average, in the offspring.

More intelligent people would recognize the potential downsides to reproducing in a pandemic, such as (a) unknown effects of the novel coronavirus on the developing fetus, and (b) the role of excessive population density in fueling the pandemic. These more intelligent parents would tend to make the logical decision to avoid reproducing in adverse circumstances.

[inkblotuniverse]

I predict a midwit curve. The low-intelligence/low-conscientious people will just have kids as usual; those of middling intelligence will think as you; and those of the highest intelligence will keep having kids as much as they did before.