Ok, these diseases don’t kill everyone. In fact most people have had them and did not even notice. Lyme should be tested for if you feel bad for a while and have no real reason for it. But I suggest you start raising chickens or ducks let them loose on your grounds during the day. Keep all your roosters and let them stay out at night until they are gone. They will spend all day eating any tick they can find. Chickens are the pop corn of the animal kingdom. So you should expect them to be eaten. But they can take out 99% of ticks in a very short time. Some other birds like pea fowl are more likely to last longer and do the same thing.
We’ve had chickens the entire time we’ve lived here, until a few months ago. And yeah, we have noticed a few more tick by the house. But my wife just got tired of all the chicken poop on the porches and the ruined plants.
We have wild turkeys here in southern NH that eat ticks all day for FREE.