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

[Muhammy]

Fauci have this?

I wish him no recovery.

[patriot torch]

hmmmmmm......must be election time nearing. These false flags are almost like reading a calander.

[ealgeone]

My small home town used to do this back in the day.

[ansel12]

1956.

[DesertRhino]

There was nothing wrong with that. That DDT kept mosquito diseases and misery down. Then some non-scientist lesbo romantic writer from New England decided it made egg shells slightly thinner.

Most estimates is that her ignorant book “Silent Spring” resulted in the death of 30 to 60 million. That puts her well ahead of Hitler, and somewhere between Stalin and Mao.

[gundog]

I think it was something else. Hadn’t DDT been outlawed by then? No idea what it was, but it smelled pretty bad.

[TigersEye]

Those look more like Mexican immigrants than mosquitos.

Are they spraying them for skeeters or for lice?

[dayglored]

> 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”.

Yep I remember the DDT trucks in the 1950's. Same deal, usually went around about dusk when the skeeters were coming out. Made a helluva cloud. I thought it was way cool.

Killed the heck out of the skeeters too.

[TigersEye]

There was nothing wrong with that.

That's why I said the CDC was doing something useful. That was the first project the agency did.

[Mark17]

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

I remember the same thing, back in the 60s. I remember the same smell, in Vietnam. Years later, I wondered if it was mosquito spray, or agent orange?

[TigersEye]

That’s why I asked. I also thought the ‘80s seemed a bit late for skeeter fogging with DDT.

I don’t recall a smell associated with the neighborhood spraying I witnessed.

[PeterPrinciple]

https://www.carolinashootersclub.com/threads/homebrewed-ddt.56743/

Homebrewed DDT

[ansel12]

Those were Mexican workers but that act of hand spraying was common back then for various groups that needed to be deloused.

[Deaf Smith]

What’s your baby’s name?

*Trevor, but we call him Skippy.

[LimitedPowers]

Oops! The CDC removed their page on that.

Here's something from the Wayback Machine (before they close it down): Wayback Machine

[null and void]

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

And watching the skeeters drop dead out of the sky!

[PeterPrinciple]

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/is-ddt-still-being-used.html

Is DDT Still Being Used?
Although the pesticide was banned in many countries, some countries in Africa, Asia, and South America needed the pesticide for mosquito control in order to reduce the risk of malaria. In 2006, WHO supported the indoor use of DDT in African countries where malaria remained a major challenge. The organization stated that the benefits of the pesticides to African countries outweighed the adverse effects it had on the environment. India and North Korea have continued the use of the pesticides for agricultural use despite the ban. Approximately 4,000 tons of DDT are produced annually for the vector control program. It is legal to manufacture DDT in the US, though it can only be exported for use in foreign nations. DDT can only be used in the US for public health emergencies, such as controlling vector disease. Today, DDT is manufactured in North Korea, India, and China. India remains the largest consumer of the product for vector control and agricultural use. China produces 4,500 metric tons of the product of which 80–90% is used to produce Dicofol, an acaricide. African countries do not use the product for agricultural purposes but countries such as Ethiopia, South Africa, Uganda, and Swaziland use it to control malaria.

[TigersEye]

Now they won’t even give them the vax that they tell us we all have to get or WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

LOL

[Rio]

I think that the 70's poison of choice was Malathion.

[TigersEye]

Thanks, FRiend! I just replaced my link with that one.

Gotta love our playful government that plays hide-and-seek with its documents. }:(