On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 9:59:14 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-01-05 2:52 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> >> We used to have DDT trucks drive down our streets spraying the neighborhood. I'm still around and kicking. DDT has saved countless lives from the most dangerous killer on this planet. The mosquito. Several thousand kids die every day from malaria which could have been prevented by DDT. That's just insanity but I suppose if it makes folks like you feel safer, it's all worth it, right?
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDy0o3IIpk
> >
> > DDT is a probable human carcinogen.
> >
> > Mosquitoes became resistant to DDT after 6-7 years of spraying.
> >
> > And, of course, Silent Spring.
> >
> > We're well rid of DDT.
> >
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> We are seeing more and more of the raptors who, being way up the food
> ladder, had consumed so much DDT that their eggs were too thin and did
> not survive brooding.

My guess is that if it was your kid that died from malaria, you wouldn't care about these boids.