I can guarantee that mosquitos are active in winter, from personal experience. Winter, ice everywhere. Very, very cold...... deer lease camp ....cedars...mosquitos!
Had to wear head net more then once.
So it’s global warming, and not unvetted immigrants from s#+=hole countries, full of disease and vermin? Got it. “My grandparents (mother, father, uncle, aunt...) were immigrants! We MUST let these people in! They enrich our country!” Yada yada yada.
Of course, when said relatives were allowed to come in, they had to pass health exams, be vaccinated, quarantined, if necessary, treated for parasites, deloused, etc., before they were allowed in. And the airlines had rules, too, and kept a cleaner environment. Not so much today. People who come through normal immigration procedures still must be declared healthy. But apparently, there are some immigrants who are more equal than others, because if there weren’t, we wouldn’t be having recurrences of diseases we long since conquered, here, or vermin coming in luggage and on persons. Not that the CDC would EVER admit that.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever can kill you in 3 days if you are 3 or younger or over 50. When 55 I got it from a tick bite on our 15 acre property in 800 acres of hardwood forest. No big deal. Had been pulling ticks off for 18 years then. That was a Tuesday. Super sick Thur/Fri, went to doc. He did test, “not bacterial. A virus, it will pass. If you get worse over weekend, go to ER.”
Got much worse. Went to ER Sunday. Waited in waiting room thrashing on floor for 4 hours. Then they kept misdiagnosing the problem.
Tuesday, a week after the tick bite, I am near death. They finally bring in an infectious disease specialist. No spots, so he is 100% certain it is Erlichiosis - similar to Rocky Mountain but without the spots. They hit me heavy with IV tetracycline, and in a couple hours I turn for the better.
Fortunately they treat Erlichiosis and Rocky Mountain the same. But I almost died because of it taking so long to treat and diagnose it.
It too could have killed me in 3 days, so this new tick isn’t much different except it can kill anyone of any age.......I am only here by God’s grace and His sovereign will........blessed be His name! (Jesus is His name....)
Ya, so this tick didn’t start out in the warm South and move north, it appeared in NJ because of GW.
OK!
Bring back DDT.