When I was a 10 year old Navy junior on a Naval base, we kids would be outside on a summer evening playing hopscotch, jump rope, and other. The truck would come through spraying for mosquitoes. We’d run for home.
I am not buying it. Pesticides are always #1 on the greenies list of bad stuff. The ban on DDT is now responsible for deaths of countless millions of people in 3rd world countries. It is still the greatest pesticide ever conceived. It is truly is less toxic than aspirin to people yet it is the one of the most vilified compounds in history.
Many times, a correlation reflects some other factor that both parameters being measured have in common.
In this case, there is spraying to stop an encephalitis virus infected mosquito, and there seem to be increased rates of autism. It could be a statistical artifact, or it could be that catching encephalitis from a mosquito while pregnant increases the risk of autism. And the spraying is done in those areas where there is encephalitis, hence the statistical correlation.
A virus that causes encephalitis actually infects brain cells. When a virus infects cells, it changes them—they no longer function according to their original purpose. If those cells are brain cells, then they are destroyed. Such destruction during early development certainly could affect brain function for the rest of the person’s life.
There is SOMETHING causing all these neurodegenerative disorders in our children and elderly at unprecedented rates. One child in every preschool class of 25 has some brain disorder like ADHD or autism. This is not counting any of the sex / identity / reproductive brain disorders which may show up (body not matching gender of brain).
I have an image in my head of my dad walking around the yard with a sprayer of roundup in his hand. He died last month after seven years of suffering from Alzheimer’s. I would avoid pesticides as much as possible. They affect nervous systems of all animals.
Where can one buy a 55 gallon drum of DDT?
It has NOTHING to do with vaccines and I highly doubt that it has anything to do with pesticides either.
Nobody outside of those who had such children, even talked about it at all, until all of a sudden "celebrities" began having fits, because a few had autistic kids an d making really STUPID, unproven excuse as to WHY they were being "plagued" with such children.
First they blamed vaccinations, now they’re blaming pesticides? Next they’ll be blaming climate change.
Way more instances of kids screaming and running high fevers right after vaccines to blame it on pesticides that may or may not have been sprayed in the general area.
Stronger causality to vaccines than this.
Maybe the chemicals they are using to replace the supposed “bad” DDT are worse than DDT....
But Libs never consider unintended consequences...
CDC nor DoH’s wouldn’t admit, but primary cause of autism is when pregnant mom, especially at first 4 months, would get flu or some sort of adult vaccination, mostly their baby are born with neurological problem.
Correlation does not mean causation
When I was young (mid-1960s) the spray truck, a big flatbed with a fog gun on the back, would come thru the apartment complex laying DDT on the mosquitos. My mother would make me come inside but I would watch out the (open) first-floor window as it passed. I still remember the smell 50 years later.
We didn’t have mosquitos, or malaria, or West Nile Virus, or Zika, or autism.
They’re just gonn’a keep trying to find SOMETHING that they can “blame” to keep from admitting, it is God’s will.
If you eat too much salt your arteries will harden and you will die; if you eat pepper it will lodge in your kidneys and you will die; etc
The more plausible cause is all the antidepressants and other drugs women now take for years, sometimes during pregnancy.
Child behavior is more affected by things like divorce and negligent parenting than any spray or vaccine.
Also, supposedly medical diagnoses are too heavily influenced by parents wanting more government handouts. Doctors declare the children disabled in some way so single Mommy can get a bigger Uncle Sam check.
I noticed how there was a huge surge in asthma diagnoses about 10 - 15 years ago, which is now no longer a big thing. I’m guessing it had nothing to do with chemicals in the environment.
I think the dirty little secret of the Autism and Aspergers increase is the prevalent use of anti-depressants in women. Our son has a mild form of both and my wife was on anti-depressant medication while pregnant. Her doctor instructed her to not stop taking it during her pregnancy.
I think all of these articles pointing the finger away from pharma is a planned effort to distract us from the real cause. The truth would destroy the pharmaceutical industry as they make tons of money with these medications.