?♂️ Covidsquitos
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I can't wrap my head around Desantis allowing something like this, since he's one of a handful of capable governors. I hope to see some information about why the public weren't able to have a say in it. It honestly seems like such a terrible idea to mess with nature, throw off the whole balance of the eco system. What about the animals that eat the mosquitoes, and the animals that eat them, like ripples in a pond. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but then again Gates is behind this, so it's obviously nefarious.
This has FUBAR written all over it. I don't care what they think they did or intended to do, nature always finds a way to circumvent or defeat attempts to alter its ability to create life...and we may not like the outcome.
If you reduce the mosquito populations hugely, this affects many other species that eat mosquitoes by the thousands, like bats, birds, reptiles, fish and other insects. I am happy to have diseases mosquitoes bring, be reduced. But you can't have both...a healthy ecosystem and 25% of the former mosquito population. Not forever. The ramifications may not be felt for a long time. So most people say "not my problem". Also, this project is considerably better than blanket pesticide spraying, which is just a horror!
People like Gates think that just because we CAN do something, that we MUST do something. These geniuses never consider the Law of Unintended Consequences, which is the final arbiter of these things. So what could possibly go wrong? Just wait and find out...
I think you give too much credit to Bill Gates' intentions.
I saw an article about those mosquitoes the other day. Made no mention of Gates' involvement which is not surprising.
It drives me nuts to think they're allowed to do things like this without ever asking the public's opinion.
The genetically modified mosquitoes will infect and kill off the females of the species. How Ironic.
Rather sick of these twisted fucks playing God and letting us deal with the consequences.
Use ice melt on your driveway near a natural stream? Massive fines.
Release genetically modified with God-knows-what mosquitos into the country's ecosystem? Hero.
[Epoch Times] Bill Gates-Funded Company Releases Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in US
Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released for the first time in the United States as part of an experiment to combat insect-borne diseases such as Dengue fever, yellow fever, and the Zika virus.
UK-based biotechnology firm Oxitec, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said it released the mosquitoes in six locations in Monroe County’s Florida Keys: two on Cudjoe Key, one on Ramrod Key, and three on Vaca Key.
It’s part of an effort to help tackle a disease-transmitting invasive mosquito population—the Aedes aegypti mosquito species—that’s responsible for “virtually all mosquito-borne diseases transmitted to humans,” according to the company.
These mosquitoes make up about 4 percent of the mosquito population in the Keys, and transmit dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and other human diseases, as well as heartworm and other potentially deadly diseases to pets and other animals.
The experiment is in collaboration with the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD), and was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and an independent advisory board.
Over the next 12 weeks, fewer than 12,000 mosquitoes are expected to emerge each week, for approximately 12 weeks. Untreated comparison sites will be monitored with mosquito traps on Key Colony Beach, Little Torch Key, and Summerland Key.
If successful, some 20 million additional genetically modified mosquitoes will be released later in the year.
“We really started looking at this about a decade ago, because we were in the middle of a dengue fever outbreak here in the Florida Keys,” FKMCD Executive Director Andrea Leal said during a video news conference. “So we’re just very excited to move forward with this partnership, working both with Oxitec and members of the community.”
The insects released by the biotechnology firm are all male, so they don’t bite. They’re expected to mate with the local biting female mosquitoes, and in doing so, they will pass on a lethal gene that will ensure their female offspring die before reaching maturity.
According to Quartz, areas including Malaysia, Brazil, the Cayman Islands, and Panama, where similar experiments have been carried out, have seen mosquito populations drop by as much as 90 percent.
The project has faced backlash from residents, who say their consent was not sought for the experiment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Creating genetically-modified zika mosquitos created Zika babies.
This for depopulation of humans.
Florida got too independent; Florida must be punished.
They weren't drinking the Kool Aid, so we'll shoot them instead.
So to speak.
I was thinking, a couple of weeks ago, that here in Greece the mosquito season is beginning so I'm gonna get the covid "vax" whether I want it or not. There's no sensible way that I can live my life without occasionally getting attacked by a mozzie that's already sucked the blood of someone else. :(