Bed Bugs Bite
Don’t let the bed bugs bite was always a frightening thought when I was a kid. But today, it’s even scarier since bed bugs are back. The origin of this phrase is grounded in history, going back to a time when tiny bugs would live in wooden bed frames ready to feed on unsuspecting humans as they sleep. Many believed that bed bugs were thing of the past having been brought under control—and essentially eradicated in the U.S.—in part to the pesticide DDT. But now that DDT has been banned for more than three decades bed bugs are making a resurgence absent pesticide effective enough to zap them and thanks to increased global travel. The bugs can travel in your suit case, and apparently are even more creative as they recently have been reported to be found living in a cell phone.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recently held a summit to discuss on what to do about the bed bug resurgence. And they should. This is a very good time to reconsider our approach to pesticide regulations. Not only is DDT gone, but many other useful products have been regulated out of existence without weighing the risks of not having them. And bed bugs are not the only pests that are re-surging and wreaking havoc.
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In San Antonio the bed bug and lice problem has worsened extremely since the normal days back in 2007. It’s ridiculous to consider all the people suffering these pests as having mental problems. Some of us here have resisted these feeble attempts to riducle all these masses of people. In private, everyone acknowledges they know of somebody having problems, but in public nobody wants to admit that they themselves have any problems with bugs.
YOu can see the signs of it. All the restaurants with carpets ripped out and replace with tile. Restaurants taking out booths and padded chairs replaced with more austere furniture that bugs can’t hide in. Waiters and waitresses with heads shaved or close to it (women, I mean!). Some took remnants of carpets to put in different locations to see if it was really in their heads or actually real pests. Every single one of the test locations became infested and all carpeting is being or was then pulled out and replaced with hard flooring. Since these people were told by authorities, pest control (non-medical personnel) and some doctors that it was all in their head, if all those people were correct, then there should have been no transmission of the problem.
I think that showed resourcefulness. I would recommend these people also send dolls full of these “non-existent” bugs to key people involved in getting this taken care of. I imagine dolls would harbor a lot of these types of pests. I know baseball caps seem to. You just wait until “your imagination” is running wild and you “think” you have bugs all over you, go grab a cap and put it on. Put on several. Later test to see if wearing any of the hats seems to “give” you lice or other bugs crawling around on yhour head, and if so, wrap that one up in plastic and mail it. Not that I would do that myself, but wouldn’t it wake some people up if they got a really cool cap from an unknown supporter that actually was spreading the bugs to these decision makers? You need to send something they’ll take home with them, so they can “have bugs in their heads too”.
On the other hand, if you receive an anonymous package of a cap, doll or other, you might think twice about opening the plastic bag and wearing or holding it.
Just don’t tell me all the people that got carpet somehow were hypnotized to think they got bugs, or like one doc said, whenever they come in with bugs, we all think we have bugs after that, and you see us all itching. But it’s just in our heads, we know. Okay, but if nobody says anything about bugs and just puts an “infected” carpet down in the room and then the whole house becomes contaminated? You certainly would NOT tell anyone you are giving them a suspected infested item for them to become hypnotized about it to think they have bugs. This process eliminates any confounds. If theres’ bugs in there, they spread to the new location, and soon enough people begin getting irritated. One man I know of who received a carpet strip ended up tearing out their whole carpet, got new beds, put flea & tick powder everywhere indoors and out, and now goes around saying he’s got bugs, invisible bugs.
If you pest control guy says you need to see a psychiatrist and starts giving that or other medical advice, which is a serious crime since they aren’t doctors, take a strip of your carpet and be so kind as to let him know that by the way you wanted them to have a sample so they could inspect it and see if they find anything. It’s right on the seat of your truck. Smile and tell yourself, Hey, he insists it’s all in my mind. This should prove it to him and he can prove it to me. I tell you, if you are in San Antonio with these bugs, his truck will be infested (of course that’s all just in my mind.)
I say, if they won’t believe those who are really infested, then perhaps they’ll believe it when THEY are infested. We’ve been lied to and ridiculed. FINALLY now the EPA is having the summit. GREAT! About time. Now let’s have a real solution.
Oh, and also, I have begun identifying people who are infested here, which if you and friends have them, you know more and more what to look for. If I see someone leaving a restaurant, for example, and they are exhibiting certain of the signs of infestation, like a woman with a shaved head who keeps itching herself or her head, or who digs a finger into his/her nose to itch it. That one’s most unusual to see and always was done in secret but not anymore. A guy said, something was in my nose it felt like crawling around. Those ones also like inside of ears and are typically older insects, and they also like under the arms, the armpits. Those are mostly on people who quit fighting it, quit bathing, wear the same clothes, their house is never ever sprayed for bugs, so these keep on growing. Here we use combos of 3 or 4 in a cocktail including but not limited to Malthion Plus, Volks Oil Spray, and some others. Only on the outside of the house because we lay it on 3 times what’s called for times 3 different pesticides = about 10 times the dosage. But it must be repeated weekly to 10 days here since these bugs seem to just walk right through on their journey to wherever and don’t do this yourself: it’s what I do. I cannot recommend you try it because using 10 times the monthly amount every week equals 28 times the regular recommended amount. that is a LOT of poison. And guess what. I haven’t found the right combo that works for more than 5 days and also finding the same product is hard due to vendors constantly changing the names of their products. A vendor salesman told me this week Oh Ortho doesn’t call it that anymore. You’ll have to see what the key ingredients are and try to do it that way.
I think a lot of people are getting tired of crying HELP
Sooin they will be crying HELL
HELL to everyone that continues to ignore this terrible crap. It’s just not right that we would be made to suffer like this. Let them suffer with us. HELL to them. Either help us or HELL is on the way. HELL dolls. Not everybody is smart enough to capture these bugs like I did and go show my doctor and make them apologize ( and the pest control company too).
This is enough. This is going on two years now here in San Antonio. ENOUGH ALREADY. Lice, book lice, bark lice, bedbugs, silverfish, thrips are NOT part of our imagination. They are part of HELL though, and I think sharing this hell we are going through, if nobody decides fast enough, then let them share the problem. Only then will they wake up to the nightmare of bedbugs and all the other ones.
Truly sorry to see this country brought to this state of affairs. The future of our country seems so in doubt compared to yesterday when we began to put men on the moon. Now 50 years after the last great bedbug outbreak, we are brought to our knees, people sleeping in bathtubs and turning their bedrooms into windtunnels (duh, that means using a big shop fan as you sleep blows these things
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DDT doesn’t work against bed bugs. Bed bugs developed immunity to DDT very early on. Professional exterminators who use DDT could be charged with malpractice. Very few populations of the little beasts are susceptible to DDT.