About five years, as antique dealers, we bought some items that were wrapped in old newspapers from the 1900's. I'm a great reader of anything and was reading something from 1919 that spoke of a great flu (or something) outbreak that killed thousands and thousands of folks and one sentence remains with me that went something like this: "This could be nature's way of keeping the population under control". Does anyone on FR know anything about "nature's way of keeping the population under control"?
I live in Central New York State and a few years ago numerous dead squirrels were being spotted along roads. They were not hit by cars - they were just dead - no blood or injuries - laying along side of roads. There never was an explanation for the dead squirrels. I was quite a few of them myself. Too many squirrels and nature took over?
I usually don't take a Flu shot, but may consider one this year.
I read something a few years ago on Population Fatigue, a theory some scientists were working on. They were very pessimistic that because of the huge population inhabiting the earth now, some killer disease or wars would break out to reduce the numbers to more manageable levels. Think I'll look that up to see what is being said about that.
I live in Central New York State and a few years ago numerous dead squirrels were being spotted along roads. They were not hit by cars - they were just dead - no blood or injuries - laying along side of roads. There never was an explanation for the dead squirrels. I was quite a few of them myself. Too many squirrels and nature took over? Squirrels usually die of mange. It happens every so many years. Currently we have a bumper crop of squirrels here in Missouri, but a few years back there were almost none as they had all died off from mange.