THE BUZZING, THE BUZZING

Sometimes I miss the area where I grew up. Which, when I think about, I realize was much more bog-like than I always remember. A fertile wet area warmly supportive of a mosquito population. Which probably explains why netting around beds (klamboe) have become not uncommon.
Here, when there are mosquitoes (somewhat rare), I can rely on the critters vastly prefering my apartment mate instead of myself. And desperately trying to get into her net.
Which she has hanging around her bed twelve months of the year.

The thing is she's Asian American and a non-smoker.
plus women are, naturally, much tastier.
Even non-mosquitoes know this.


A friend moved over there with her family fairly recently. There is a near-complete absence of MAGA there, but, they have discovered, a large mosquito presence. Still better than here.

In the Deep South there are both. And they deserve that.

Dengue fever is increasing in the United States.
So are West Nile cases.


As yet there are no vaccines for West Nile, so Bobby Kennedy Jr. need not fulminate, but there is one for dengue. Though it's only really available in Puerto Rico. Where there are fewer idiots than in the continental United States.
Malaria is not common yet.



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