(01-01-2025, 07:33 AM)amrist Wrote: more taxpayers and higher GDP, more demand for resources.
rats are about the only animal that can equal human numbers
Well - there's a comforting thought!
(31-12-2024, 04:51 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:(31-12-2024, 03:53 PM)Praktica Wrote: Yeah, but...people can get here during the incubation period for a disease...
Yes. And we let anyone in these days...
Yes - even those blardy Orstralians from across the ditch!
Youngest grandson is heading over the ditch later this month; he & his partner have jobs & interviews lined up.
If we continue to get more & more pandemics, there might come a time when travel becomes a rarity.
One billion's a fairly hefty number; you might think we'd have worked out what was causing it by now...
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)