Cities across US make rare move to spray chemicals through streets in response to onslaught of deadly mosquito-borne infections

Daily Mail ^ | 8/27/24 | Ellyn Lapointe

[Libloather]

Give me a gallon of Avon's Skin So Soft. It'll last years. Is this the airborne covid shot everyone's been talkin' about? Have to find a way to cook mosquitoes.

[Pollard]

Gates’ skeeters?

[Mariner]

Public Health (Tyranny) strikes again!

These people are the classic embodiment of hubris...AND tyranny.

[TigersEye]

Going back to CDC's roots!

The CDC hasn't done anything useful since the 1940s ... back when they gassed neighborhoods with DDT. :)

Oops! The CDC removed their page on that. That would be in the last two years since I first drafted that post.

[crusty old prospector]

I had West Nile ten years ago. Flu-like symptoms.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The decision comes on the heels of an onslaught of mosquito-borne illnesses throughout the US, including West Nile Virus, which hospitalized White House Covid doctor Anthony Fauci this month...

I knew there was a reason Fauci pretended to have West Nile virus, to whip up a frenzy to vaccinate and fumigate against it.

And if he really did have it, he got it from visiting one of his virus gain-of-function laboratories.

[Fledermaus]

Idiots got DDT banned. Millions died.

[ansel12]

DDT trucks spraying our neighborhoods was regularly done in Houston in the 1950s and I can’t remember if they were still doing it in the early 60s.

They were fog trucks and the kids loved chasing the truck and being invisible in the ‘smoke”.

[realcleanguy]

Yup, that works great. I don’t trust the government to “spray down the state” with unknown chemicals

[Governor Dinwiddie]

When I lived in Central Florida many years ago, at dusk the fogging trucks were always out and about. Never caused me any problems.

[HenpeckedCon]

Unprecedented? They used to spray for skeeters all the time when I was a kid in Massachusetts.

[ansel12]

Shocking footage shows dangerous pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) being sprayed over children in Texas

[TigersEye]

I recall getting heavily gassed in my basement bedroom one summer night as my window-well window was open. That had to be 1970 or later as I didn’t move downstairs until I was at least 15.

FWIW it gave me a heck of a headache.

[gundog]

[gundog]

I remember the foggers from the ‘60s in Kansas. The C-130s spraying at Homestead in the ‘80s were much worse.

[ansel12]

See the kids trying to survive? That one kid has grabbed a shovel and is trying to dig a foxhole and the other is so dazed already that he is running in the wrong direction to escape.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I remember being in the town of Vale, OR in 1974 when they were spraying from airplanes. Don’t know if it was DDT or some other pesticide.

[gundog]

Probably laying thin-shelled eggs, even today.

[TigersEye]

Were the C-130s spraying DDT or something else?

[Deaf Smith]

Zika virus thanks to the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

Cone Head kids for everyone.