Comments on: Bed bugs 40, humans 33: 185 Smith Street in Winnipeg. http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/ bed bug news, information, activism, and support Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:02:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: hopelessnomo http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-8643 hopelessnomo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:05:23 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-8643 Loretta, please read the FAQs. It is not in your best interest to self-treat as you might spread the bedbugs and make them harder to kill. Please consult a qualified pest control professional. In most areas, your landlord is required to eradicate pests from your home. You can ask further questions in the forums (click the blue 'forums' bug above right). Loretta, please read the FAQs. It is not in your best interest to self-treat as you might spread the bedbugs and make them harder to kill. Please consult a qualified pest control professional. In most areas, your landlord is required to eradicate pests from your home. You can ask further questions in the forums (click the blue ‘forums’ bug above right).

]]> By: loretta http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-8640 loretta Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:20:43 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-8640 how do i get raid of bedbugs what kind of spary do i get can you let me know so i can buy the stuff my son is getting bitten up i wash every thing i put all stuff toys in a black bag and now i dont know what eles to do .. how do i get raid of bedbugs what kind of spary do i get can you let me know so i can buy the stuff my son is getting bitten up i wash every thing i put all stuff toys in a black bag and now i dont know what eles to do ..

]]> By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-6725 nobugsonme Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:26:44 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-6725 Never, Check the FAQS for landlord-tenant information. And come to the forums if you have questions. (Links above.) Never,
Check the FAQS for landlord-tenant information.
And come to the forums if you have questions. (Links above.)

]]> By: NeverSleep http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-6724 NeverSleep Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:19:05 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-6724 ugh, im from winnipeg too. unfortunately i am renting a house and i dont think my landlord is going to foot the bill for an extermination, and as a student i certainly cant. im covered in bites. cant sleep. can't move out. can't find the time to go to a laundrymat (student blaarrgh) i just want to die already! ugh, im from winnipeg too. unfortunately i am renting a house and i dont think my landlord is going to foot the bill for an extermination, and as a student i certainly cant.

im covered in bites. cant sleep. can’t move out. can’t find the time to go to a laundrymat (student blaarrgh)

i just want to die already!

]]> By: buggedinbrooklyn http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1599 buggedinbrooklyn Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:24:22 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1599 Hopelessnomo, glad the move went well, and nice to have you back with us again. buggedinbrooklyn Hopelessnomo,

glad the move went well, and nice to have you back with us again.

buggedinbrooklyn

]]> By: jessinchicago http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1598 jessinchicago Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:52:47 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1598 Hopelessnomo'!!!!! I have been thinking about you. It's so good to hear from you! Glad the move went well. I can see the flyers and posters, too. And commercials: "This... Is your brain. THIS is your brain on bedbugs." :) Hopelessnomo’!!!!! I have been thinking about you. It’s so good to hear from you! Glad the move went well.

I can see the flyers and posters, too. And commercials: “This… Is your brain. THIS is your brain on bedbugs.”
:)

]]> By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1597 nobugsonme Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:14:50 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1597 I do, 'Nomo. I am an optimist. People are starting to learn, and this site alone is getting around 13,000 site visits a month, so word is getting out. I do, ‘Nomo. I am an optimist. People are starting to learn, and this site alone is getting around 13,000 site visits a month, so word is getting out.

]]> By: hopelessnomo' http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1596 hopelessnomo' Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:41:19 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1596 Hey nobugs! Thanks, yes, move went well insofar as no more bugs (what more do I want, right?) but of course not really healed yet and starting to get obsessed again... There's dire bedbug ignorance out there. But don't you think our small community can help though, simply by growing? Everyone needs to get the bedbug basics! I close my eyes and I can just see the subway posters... I'm positive you can too nobugs! Hey nobugs! Thanks, yes, move went well insofar as no more bugs (what more do I want, right?) but of course not really healed yet and starting to get obsessed again…

There’s dire bedbug ignorance out there. But don’t you think our small community can help though, simply by growing? Everyone needs to get the bedbug basics! I close my eyes and I can just see the subway posters… I’m positive you can too nobugs!

]]> By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1595 nobugsonme Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:22:53 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1595 Hey Nomo! Good to see you. We had another hopeless in your absence (I think). It's good to see you again. Hope the move went well? Anyway, poverty is a huge problem, you're right. I think a public education campaign could help because I do think lots of people just don't get it, even if their landlord gave them a flier, and that maybe they would agree the furniture just is not worth it. But you're right--some people don't care. (Or as others have said, don't notice the problem even when they "have" it.) I'm not sure what to do about that. Altruism and a sense of community is perhaps not enough, sadly. Hey Nomo! Good to see you. We had another hopeless in your absence (I think). It’s good to see you again. Hope the move went well?

Anyway, poverty is a huge problem, you’re right. I think a public education campaign could help because I do think lots of people just don’t get it, even if their landlord gave them a flier, and that maybe they would agree the furniture just is not worth it.

But you’re right–some people don’t care. (Or as others have said, don’t notice the problem even when they “have” it.) I’m not sure what to do about that.

Altruism and a sense of community is perhaps not enough, sadly.

]]> By: hopelessnomo' http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1594 hopelessnomo' Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:12:13 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/02/22/bed-bugs-40-humans-33-185-smith-street-in-winnipeg/#comment-1594 Three years... If tenants in a building fighting bedbugs for 3 whole unbelievably depressing years are picking up "infected furniture" and bringing it back in, this points to a different problem altogether, not indifference or carelessness really but plain poverty, or the mindset that persistent poverty creates that is more repulsed by the waste of seemingly perfectly good things than by bugs. A much, way, way more difficult problem. Sadly, and I have observed this from close distance, bugs are not a big deal for some people. Not sure how I feel about that. Three years… If tenants in a building fighting bedbugs for 3 whole unbelievably depressing years are picking up “infected furniture” and bringing it back in, this points to a different problem altogether, not indifference or carelessness really but plain poverty, or the mindset that persistent poverty creates that is more repulsed by the waste of seemingly perfectly good things than by bugs. A much, way, way more difficult problem. Sadly, and I have observed this from close distance, bugs are not a big deal for some people. Not sure how I feel about that.

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