2 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

 

INCREDIBLE development and unfortunately it will largely be swept under the rug with all the COVID news.  Still incredibly impressive and has the potential for massive global impact. 

pssh, malaria has like a 90% survival rate. I'll take my chances, thanks.

Bumped first jab up to tomorrow.  Win.

4 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Ah yes, Texas has no major cities and New York has no open space. Great point.  

 

I'll take false equivalence for $1000, Alex.

3 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

 

INCREDIBLE development and unfortunately it will largely be swept under the rug with all the COVID news.  Still incredibly impressive and has the potential for massive global impact. 

I guess it's not as effective against certain species of malaria parasites but still big news for countries ravaged by the disease. I still hope the work to hobble or destroy mosquito populations continues. I'm not as concerned about the ethical or ecological ramifications of wiping those little ish heads off the face of the planet. Same goes for ticks. Burn them all.

6 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Ah yes, Texas has no major cities and New York has no open space. Great point.  

Population density in NY state is almost 4 times that of Texas.

Just now, we_gotta_believe said:

I guess it's not as effective against certain species of malaria parasites but still big news for countries ravaged by the disease. I still hope the work to hobble or destroy mosquito populations continues. I'm not as concerned about the ethical or ecological ramifications of wiping those little ish heads off the face of the planet. Same goes for ticks. Burn them all.

Found a deer tick on me after ripping out some throne bushes last week.  Luckily little f'er didn't latch on.   

1 minute ago, paco said:

Found a deer tick on me after ripping out some throne bushes last week.  Luckily little f'er didn't latch on.   

Apparently the ones that transmit lyme must be latched for 8 hrs or more. The thing is, they can do this in the nymph stage where they are tiny as F, so you can barely see them.

8 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Ah yes, Texas has no major cities and New York has no open space. Great point.  

I hate answering trolls, but for the common good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density

Texas has ONE incorporated city in the top 125 in population density, and it's a tiny town with 196 people in it in the greater Dallas area.

NYC has 27,000 people per square mile. Houston has 3,600.

It's not the same thing. 

1 minute ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Apparently the ones that transmit lyme must be latched for 8 hrs or more. The thing is, they can do this in the nymph stage where they are tiny as F, so you can barely see them.

Yeah.  If they are engorged, you may be in trouble.

 

Instead I've been dealing with head to toe poison ivy\sumac, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

5 minutes ago, paco said:

Found a deer tick on me after ripping out some throne bushes last week.  Luckily little f'er didn't latch on.   

I'm am not usually a phobic person, but I am absolutely terrified of ticks. I was up in Gettysburg mulling around the battlefields last summer, and one of the bus drivers had mentioned to me that they have a really big tick problem. Man, she was not lying! I stuck to walking along the roads and paths, but I was flicking ticks off me the whole time! They were anywhere and everywhere. I felt like they were dropping out of trees. It really kinda sucked because I love hanging out there, but it made the whole day kinda stressful.

So apparently NYC IS the greatest city in the world....for spreading the VID!  SUCK IT NYC

 

In all seriousness - do you people EVER get tired of talking about this?  I mean for F's sake, I swear some of you dorks live and breathe this crap.

Just now, mikemack8 said:

So apparently NYC IS the greatest city in the world....for spreading the VID!  SUCK IT NYC

 

In all seriousness - do you people EVER get tired of talking about this?  I mean for F's sake, I swear some of you dorks live and breathe this crap.

you are posting in the corona thread, numnutz!  the hell you think people are gonna talk about in here?     

For reference, this is how big they are at the nymph stage...

1 minute ago, mr_hunt said:

you are posting in the corona thread, numnutz!  the hell you think people are gonna talk about in here?     

Mikemack's gonna step up in the blog and ask them why they keep talking about football.

21 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Population density is a thing.

@paco

2 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Apparently the ones that transmit lyme must be latched for 8 hrs or more. The thing is, they can do this in the nymph stage where they are tiny as F, so you can barely see them.

Just now, paco said:

Yeah.  If they are engorged, you may be in trouble.

Instead I've been dealing with head to toe poison ivy\sumac, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

The cutoff we usually use if we're deciding on prophylaxis/treatment is 36 hours but in the studies it's closer to 48-72 range before the risk of lyme really increases.  Most of the time for the little ones you can't really tell how long they've been on so you have to go based on engorgement.

 

Yeah me asking why people are obsessed with corona = me asking why they are posting about it in the corona thread 

Fun fact: possums eat a ton of ticks.  I know they're ugly AF but if you see one around your property don't call animal control.  Creepy lil **** is fighting the good fight.  

6 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

So apparently NYC IS the greatest city in the world....for spreading the VID!  SUCK IT NYC

 

In all seriousness - do you people EVER get tired of talking about this?  I mean for F's sake, I swear some of you dorks live and breathe this crap.

I got 2 kids in school. I need to live and breathe this crap to make sure I'm making informed decisions for their sake, not just my own. Their health is crucially important to me. Is it that much different than people living and breathing nutrition, diet, exercise, etc? 

4 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Fun fact: possums eat a ton of ticks.  I know they're ugly AF but if you see one around your property don't call animal control.  Creepy lil **** is fighting the good fight.  

Also Fun fact: mikemack eats a ton of deeks, but only in Kmart parking lots. Creepy lil guy is fighting the good fight in his own way too.

19 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

I'm am not usually a phobic person, but I am absolutely terrified of ticks. I was up in Gettysburg mulling around the battlefields last summer, and one of the bus drivers had mentioned to me that they have a really big tick problem. Man, she was not lying! I stuck to walking along the roads and paths, but I was flicking ticks off me the whole time! They were anywhere and everywhere. I felt like they were dropping out of trees. It really kinda sucked because I love hanging out there, but it made the whole day kinda stressful.

That s*** gave me one or two nightmares where I was doing more yard work and ended up with several big engorged ticks.

15 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

@paco

He's not wrong. 

 

Especially when someone is trying to classify a bordering suburb of the 3rd largest city in the US as a "small town" because it has roughly the same population of a town in Texas that is 10 times the size.  "Look at the chase building honey.  Its only 22 stories.  How quaint!" "Oh I don't know dear, I'm partial to the 25 story Sherman Plaza myself"  

 

I know, I know, I'm leaving out other buildings, like One Rotary Center (Link to Skyscrapercenter.com if you want to read more), but the people in my story are size queens

 

42 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

The city folk can stay the eff away from me and my open space

Nothing to be concerned about, buddy. Neither city dwellers nor anyone else on the planet wants to come anywhere near you.

Just now, paco said:

That s*** gave me one or two nightmares where I was doing more yard work and ended up with several big engorged ticks.

He's not wrong.

 

A few years ago I had a beater pickup that I used for yard work, home depot runs and whatnot. The drive shaft came disconnected while driving it, and at first I didn't know what was wrong. So I pulled over and had to lay down in some tall weeds on the side of the road to look under it. I was there for like 30 seconds, saw what was wrong and stood up. In that 30 seconds I must have gotten anywhere from 25 to 50 ticks on me. I was covered. It definitely creeped me out.

2 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Nothing to be concerned about, buddy. Neither city dwellers nor anyone else on the planet wants to come anywhere near you.

mikemack's open space: