I remember in the 1950's when they use to come around and spray DDT with this huge truck.
They would let the neighborhood know ahead of time so parents could get the laundry off the lines, and close the windows of the house.
The kids in the neighborhood had a whole different view of the whole thing.
I remember lots of kids on bikes would follow behind the truck in the cloud of DDT.
There were guys who fell into vats of DDT in the 50s who are still walking around, one guy who used to eat the stuff to demonstrate its safety to humans, and everybody who survived the nazi death camps was sprayed with the stuff to get rid of lice and other parasites; none of them died from DDT exposure. A friend of mine studied under Heinz Meng himself and tells me that Meng described the entire case against DDT as BS and claimed it had no effect on any kind of birds or their eggs. Everything we’ve ever been told about DDT is BS. DDT is a legitimate candidate for greatest thing the white man ever invented and it would solve the black fly problem in a single day.