They've gone back and forth. I think if you large-picture it, it's pretty OK, something like 15% of bird and bat diets come from mosquitos. But at the micro level, some species may not cope. I am very fond of bats so I am ambivalent about this.
It's because for the Average Joe, having a TV box at the end of your driveway that has the latest big number on it is important. It's how they gain their identity. Do not upset them for obvious reasons.
I had my measles tested earlier this year, and my immunity has worn off. I'm in a state that borders Texas so I got my ass to Walgreens.
They asked if it was for school or for work... when I told them it was because my doctor had ordered it, they were like, hold on. They had to confer for quite a while. Lesson learned, say "work"
My kid goes with his mom on trips to CO so I am breathing a sigh of relief, he can get all the vaccines there if they join in fighting back like Portlandia is doing
And then I think about the thousands of poor kids around here who will never leave their county of birth
I learned to do this growing up, the two fingers up off the steering wheel, and I instinctively do it in rural areas now, it always cracks my husband up when this gay city dude is waving at country rednecks and they're waving back
At the same time it makes you realize how a well-chosen cabinet can run the show. Which makes you wonder, why have a president at all, some countries use a council now instead. Less "rockstar" and consolidated power. Make politicians bureaucratic again.
One has only to think about it, would today's billionaires leave a resource unexploited, an economy un-leeched? They're working on all continents. But few countries are willingly degrading themselves and digging the collective bottom downward than Americans, who had it all and are now breaking it all down for someone else's profit.
The nice thing is tho, if a neighborhood is built without one, it's almost impossible to start one. So if we had a way to focus on the shitty developers who want to attract white flight by making racist HOAs, we could see progress. But we can't do things like that, those developers are in charge.
Yes that's one way of looking at death yes.