I don't understand where you are getting your pond counts from. The survey they just published had them at 5.4. If that holds, and it likely will, the mallard population will have to drop another half again to get anywhere near moderate, much less restrictive.
I just don't see any reason to...
They built a $2,000,000 morgue in a parking lot here......we guarded it for 100 bucks an hour. Not a single body was ever there. That's about the time we started looking at each other and calling bullchit on the entire response.
My wife works for the Federal Govt. We were making preparations for her to walk away from a 160K job. She held out until the last minute and they have backed down for now. Many quit rather than be vaccinated. The military lost many who refused it on top of recruitment being off.
Anecdotally, from members of our armed forces, recruitment is way down and the #1 reason given is that the covid vaccine is mandatory. I don't think you understand how 18-27 year old's feel about the vaccine. My kids and many of their friends passed up jobs out of college because of vaccine...
And our military is being depleted due to a vaccine mandate for a segment of the population in which virtually NOBODY dies from covid.
I'm all done listening to people who want to pretend the response is based on science. The fork it is.
Of the 1,000,000 some odd deaths from covid 769,616 were 65 or older. We shut down our economy and workforce, and 75% of the people it killed weren't even in the workforce. The entire response was based on fear generated by politicians via the CDC....who had their heads firmly up their...