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2024-08-29 Science & Technology

Cities across US make rare move to spray chemicals through streets in response to onslaught of deadly mosquito-borne infections

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top

#1 How does it work on angry crowds?
Something in a 'instant colonic' flavor, please.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-29 06:54|| 2024-08-29 06:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe 'spores'.

Nightmarish photo of tarantula infected by a ZOMBIE FUNGUS

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-29 07:46|| 2024-08-29 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Brings back memories of riding bikes thru the fog as city drove fogging trucks around town….and I turned out alright. (?)

Posted by Everyday a Wildcat(KSU) 2024-08-29 08:32|| 2024-08-29 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 In the 80's I rode a bike to work from Huntington Beach to Westminister, CA. The morning sea fog mixed with the sulfur dioxide pollution gave me a nice chemical peel. To that I owe my youthful visage.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-29 09:15|| 2024-08-29 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 Maybe...

Posted by Neville+Shavish3973 2024-08-29 11:25|| 2024-08-29 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 You know what we need?
Modified mosquitos capable of carrying a selected payload of human made viruses or substances, whether the human bit wants it or not.

Hey...isn't that literally biological warfare?

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-29 11:45|| 2024-08-29 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Bill Gates opined during Covid that we should develop and use a vaccine spray that could be dropped from above so that none of us had any choices about vaccination.

Posted by Crusader 2024-08-29 11:58|| 2024-08-29 11:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes. He is into the "NO CHOICE" paradigm.

Posted by Squinty+Hatfield8204 2024-08-29 17:56|| 2024-08-29 17:56|| Front Page Top

#9 But Mr. Gates is the smartest man in the room. Just ask him — he’ll be happy to tell you.

I, on the other hand, am not. And not just because I’m not (thank God!), a man. On the other hand, the only people who don’t despise him are the ones whose good opinion is not worth having.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-29 22:47|| 2024-08-29 22:47|| Front Page Top

#10 I remember when many on this site considered anti vaxxers fools.

Posted by Xyz 2024-08-29 22:56|| 2024-08-29 22:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Me among them, Xyx. But you-all have taught, and we have learnt. But there was a time when scientists did not play fast and loose with such things.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-29 23:14|| 2024-08-29 23:14|| Front Page Top

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