Except that now everyone is competing for the same immigrants. Also, luring smart, motivated people out of economies that are on the brink of professional health, particularly economies with nuclear weapons and active spy recruitment programs, might be contributing to other problems. 
Edit: Also, perhaps 
's COVID death toll is higher than ~65,000. Eyeballing that graph from Reuters, it looks like 13m people are missing, which makes my very rough estimate of 5.4m COVID deaths look low. COVID may have shrunk the birth rate by about a million births a year (back of the envelope), but that’s only 2 to 3m of that. If COVID is responsible for the population drop then the numbers are going to skew to the elderly.
