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The kind of news story our government officials - local and federal - must read
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BuggedInSomerville
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Fri Sep 4 2009 9:05:44
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An article from yesterday's Concord (NH) Monitor:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090903/FRONTPAGE/909030302
This article highlights how the difficulty in dealing with a bedbug infestation means those unequipped to handle one, whether financially, physically, emotionally, whatever, can tend to let the problem slide. Until the government at SOME level steps in to help, this is going to keep becoming a more dangerous public-health issue. As I've probably written here before, I just DON'T GET why the media and government keep harping on lukewarm health issues like freaking swine flu - which is, what, little more than the common cold - and diverting funds there rather than addressing a real plague-to-be like bedbugs.
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KILL_ALL_BEDBUGS
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Fri Sep 4 2009 9:25:54
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ahaha the comments to that story are priceless. Here is the highest rated one:
The only problem MOST of these residents face is one they have refused to do their whole lives: WORK! Work hard and get good grades in school by putting in that extra effort. Work hard despite your disabilities and you can overcome. I know it is a four letter word and people have been coddling and enabling them their whole life, but someday they will have to begin to realize not everything gets handed out on a silver platter. Yes, it is a tough situation some of them are in, but suck it up, work as a team and you can and will achieve positive results!
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DeathToAllBBs
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Fri Sep 4 2009 13:08:49
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FYI, there are people on disability due to physical issue and mental health issues that would be absolutely overwhelmed having to deal with moving furniture, bagging and washing lots of thing. In the mental health arena, very commonly, it is difficult to keep people on task. They might be able to focus to some degree but depending on the individual and the level of their disability (for some it is worse than others) the whole situation might be too overwhelming either mentally or physically or especially emotionally. So please don't assume that people are lazy and don't want to work. Sure, there are some, but there are far more that are just not capable.
A lazy person might not want to work and might be working the system, but I doubt they'd be okay with letting bugs eat them alive. If they're not bothered by the fact that bugs are biting them at night, then there's a problem much bigger than laziness.
I don't mean to be argumentative. I'm just trying to help people be aware that there is a difference between people who are ill and/or have a disability and people who are lazy and working the system. I'm sorry if this comes across as anything other than informative. This post was only meant to be informative and I apologize if it comes across as anything else.
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spideyjg
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Fri Sep 4 2009 14:21:06
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"Only PCO's and BB victims have any clue the nightmare BBs are. Nobody else can possibly imagine what it is like.
All the "know it all" ass clowns, posting comments in response to articles in various places, that have never seen a bug piss me off.
I am a BB war veteran screaming out," Your weren't there! You don't understand!"
Unless you fought or are fighting the good fight yourself as a victim, as a pest professional, or helping an infested friend/relative you don't know jack squat! Sit your ass down with a steaming cup of STFU! Otherwise get an infestation, go to battle, win the war, and then we can talk on equal terms."
Somebody with a login want to post that in the article comments feel free. Well the term ass clown might get moderated out so say "butt puppets".
Yes Adele, I am extra curmudgeony today. :)
Jim
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KILL_ALL_BEDBUGS
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Fri Sep 4 2009 14:31:30
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Uhh DeathToAllBB I was posting that comment because I thought it worthy of mockery not because I agreed with it sorry if that wasnt clear
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spideyjg
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Fri Sep 4 2009 14:33:26
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Think my response above is mocky enough? ;)
Jim
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DeathToAllBBs
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Fri Sep 4 2009 14:56:08
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oh sorry. I can't tell when we're mocking or serious here. It's just all so pathetic. We're supposed to be an advanced civilization and yet bed bugs have us beat. Yeah. That's just priceless.
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spideyjg
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Fri Sep 4 2009 15:17:18
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BTW, Butt Puppets is gonna have to be my new band. :)
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buggyinsocal
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Fri Sep 4 2009 16:40:11
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You're not going to get an argument from me that bed bugs aren't a major health problem in the United States.
We know that improper treatment can cause stress that can be dangerous for someone with underlying conditions. I think anyone who's been through bed bugs can attest that it can certain have a profound effect on your health, albeit indirectly.
However, I'm also not going to dismiss the potential for H1N1 flu to have a profound effect. People do not die from colds. People do die every year from plain old influenza. Most of them are the very young and the very old. The problem with H1N1 as with any relatively novel virus is that the population as a whole lacks any antibodies to fight it off. We also know that while for most people, in its current form, H1N1 isn't fatal, there are some groups of people that it hits much harder than others: pregnant women, the young--groups that normally are not as wiped out by other influenzas and who therefore might not be taking it seriously.
As someone who works on a near daily basis with young people for whom the vaccine is recommended--and works with them in a context where they live and work packed together in close quarters, are prone to sleep deprivation, and are otherwise a breeding ground for viri of most sorts--I'm very concerned about the possibility of what could happen if a lot of things go wrong all at once with H1N1. If the virus mutates--or if we get widespread outbreaks when students of all ages return to school, or if those widespread outbreaks overwhelm the heath care system and that surge causes a panic, or if the virus mutates into a form that causes increased mortality and morbidity (in medical terminology, even though it doesn't make sense to us laypeople, the term mortality refers to how ill people get, not how many people die. No, I don't know why either.).
I prefer not to play the pit one problem against another scarcity of resources or ranking of problems or oppressions game. It seems to me that in H1N1 and its potential to reveal the weaknesses in our health care system in the United States we're sitting on the edge of something that might become a crisis.
It's also painfully clear to me that bed bugs are a crisis of a different sort. Sure, they aren't going to send people to hospitals in droves, but they are bankrupting people. They are causing epic levels of anxiety and stress. And they are making peoples' quality of life positively awful.
I just don't think that they have to compete in order to both be significant problems.
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