Re: Damn! Killer spiders!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jethro3898</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I hope they come up with something better to do than "spray the town with DDT". I thought that stuff was outlawed years ago here in the states because it was VERY bad for humans.....but it killed the bugs.
There is always some crazy crap going on in India.
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It has been conservatively estimated that at least 100,000,000 people have died from insect borne diseases and venom / toxins since DDT was banned. The same assholes who won't even listen to anyone who didn't attend an Ivy League university are so busy patting themselves on the back about this grand achievement that they now can't hear the voices of the dead that are on their hands.
And their answer for the malaria, dengue fever and legions of other illnesses savaging the third world? Mosquito nets...You can't make this shit up!
I remember a few years ago when American Idol ran one of it's insipid campaigns during one season to cajole us all to contribute nets for the millions of people in Africa who need them. I offered to send cans of RAID instead but my offer was refused.
Malathion was another ass kicker that is now banned...
BTW, Raid still works great!
NewsFlash: We're all going to die one day! The saying, "Choose your poison" applies here I believe.</div></div> Absofukinlutly right Man. Way more people have died because of the banning of insecticide, that have been saved. Idiots.