Fogging
I can't imagine this happening here :
but the best part is this :
But when you do think about it, perhaps these people have a point. If its poisonous to mosquitoes, whose to say its 100% safe for human beings? But with no fogging there will be mosquitoes everywhere, and that's not good neither. Wallahualam.
Nightly spraying to fight mosquitoes raises concern in Sacramento
SACRAMENTO – It's just after dusk when three municipal pickup trucks, orange lights flashing, begin their slow roll through a quiet neighborhood, pumping out a fog of sweet-smelling pesticide.
The sidewalks are deserted, residents shuttered in their homes. It is a scene displayed almost nightly in California's capital, which has become the epicenter of the state's fight this summer against West Nile virus.
The program to control disease-carrying mosquitoes also includes the state's first aerial spraying of pesticides over an urban area in more than 20 years.
Many residents have resigned themselves to the nightly intrusion, but others have denounced the pesticide program as raining toxins on their homes with little warning and few safety assurances.
"I'm hoping researchers have studied the exposure, the health risks," said Jaime Lemus, 27, a father of three. "If it's West Nile versus an unknown, long-term disease, I guess I'll leave it up to the experts."
but the best part is this :
Jeanne Zinky rushed home before the scheduled spraying to dig Tony, her tortoise, out from under the plants in the backyard.
"I don't want him to get sprayed on," the accountant said of her 65-year-old pet.
But when you do think about it, perhaps these people have a point. If its poisonous to mosquitoes, whose to say its 100% safe for human beings? But with no fogging there will be mosquitoes everywhere, and that's not good neither. Wallahualam.
