Spraying for Mosquitoes

[SilvaShado]

I just got this warning for my area (Sacramento, CA):

Spraying for Mosquitoes

The District advises everyone to take precautions to minimize their exposure to the spray by remaining indoors and closing windows and doors from 8pm to midnight. For those who want to reduce their exposure even more, the following steps may be taken:

*Turn off air conditioning and other ventilation that brings in air from outside. Turn your thermostat down a couple of hours before that to keep your house cool during the treatments.

*Bring toys, tools, patio furniture, pets, bikes, and other portable items indoors.

*Cover playground equipment and other large outdoor items.

*Keep pets indoors.

*Take shoes off before coming indoors.

*After spraying occurs, wash down other surfaces such as playground equipment or other items with which you or your family may come in contact.
Don't water so much that you create a mosquito habitat!

People who are concerned about how exposures may affect specific medical conditions should contact their medical professional for additional advice on what steps to take.

www.fightthebite.net

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Quite scary, but I know it's necessary to prevent more people from getting the West Nile Virus.

[Tsel]

That sort of reminds me of, when I was still in the Military; this one guy from another command came to our command to train us in the proper use of MOPP Gear (Mission Oriented Protective Posture) in case of a Chemical or Biological attack.

The whole time he was training us; telling use how good this gear was and how well it protected him, while he was exposed to a live nerve agent, he had this uncontrollable involuntary twitch that he kept doing.
We chuckled to ourselves, ‘Yeah, this gear is great alright (twitch, twitch)’.

The whole time I was stationed in Puerto Rico, the Military used that spray to keep the Mosquito and Meme population down.
Meme is a slang name for flying bug that looks like a little floating piece of fuzz.
I don’t know what their proper name is, but we joked around that if you’d put one under a microscope all you’d see is wings and gigantic teeth.
The spray works pretty good at keeping the bug population down.

Tsel

[janggut]

tsel, could it be sand fly? talk about mosquito, u should try tropical swamp. that's where those bugs rule.

[Tsel]

A swamp is basically where Camp Moscript was placed in Puerto Rico.
It’s a swamp landfill area.
As far as the Meme’s, maybe being Sand Flies, your guess is as good as mine.

Tsel

[SilvaShado]

There's quite a split on whether the spray is harmful to humans or not.

We seemed to be fine last night. I mean, I'm still alive and I haven't heard any reports of any reactions to the spray.

As Will pointed out, even if there are some cases of reaction to the spray, it'll probably end up saving more lives from West Nile.

We've had 22 cases in the Sacramento area, if I remember correctly, with 2 deaths. If the spray does its job, there should be no more cases.