So why in the fuck are my neighbors so fucking disgusting in the rudest, most repulsive, most disease ridden way?
Atlanta has a mosquito problem, a very serious one. It is repulsive and itchy at best, and perhaps dangerous at worst - I wonder if it isn't a security issue. This region had dengue, malaria, and yellow fever just a few generations ago, and the conditions still exist for all three to thrive. Couldn't I just pretend to take a "tour group" somewhere where those diseases still exist, infect a handful of volunteer terrorists - you're more likely to survive dengue or malaria than the average suicide bombing - and then drive them around town to feed the mosquitoes? I bet I could put 5% of this city's population in the hospital by the end of the month.
The CDC, not ashamed to be surrounded by buzzing,
nauseating disease vectors.
Now, mosquito control is pretty damned easy. Basically, you clean your yard instead of being a repulsive pig. It's like cockroach control - if you don't leave rotting meat and half-eaten Entenmann's pastries all over your kitchen, it probably won't be taken over by disgusting cockroaches. And by "clean your yard," I don't mean landscaping, or mowing, or planting roses instead of weeds. I could give a shit about your weeds. I mean, "take a few minutes and dump out the stinking pools of brackish water infested with squirming mosquito larva that are puddled up in your flower pots, children's toys, clogged gutters, and other crap around your house"
But friendlyskies, malaria farms really add to the water features in
my yard, how can you say this is disgusting and vile?
Since I've lived for the past several years in places where mosquitos do carry deadly diseases (and the governments have PSAs telling people how to take personal responsibility for controlling them), I'm painfully aware of each brackish cesspool of filth that my pig neighbors allow to accumulate in their yards. Every time I walk by a house, that's what I see first, those dirty plastic containers writhing with with thousands of vile larval vermin. Sure, the house is freshly painted, the garden lovely, and the owner perfectly dressed in stylish clothing and flawless makeup click-click-clicking in designer heels to her shiny clean European sports car. Camouflage, so no one will realize that she's actually lazy, disgusting, and above all, RUDE.
And that's really the crux of the thing. I don't care if this polished piece of filth has cockroaches all over her kitchen and never washes her sheets, if she wants to live like that it's her choice and her right. But doesn't she give one shit about her neighborhood or city? Never mind the risk of spreading disease, does she just not care if area kids can't play outside without getting covered with bites? Does she think everyone should use DEET and other chemical repellants that cause cancer, kill fireflies and other awesome bugs, and build up dangerously in the environment? What lack of self awareness could make these people refuse to just take five minutes and mosquito-proof their yard by - I know it seems difficult, but its not - turning things over so water doesn't accumulate in them when it rains? Do they not know that mosquitos breed in standing water? Do they think God brought mosquitos to Atlanta and we need to respect His grand design? WHAT THE FUCK IS THE PROBLEM.
The baby Jesus wants you to suffer for the sin of
showing any skin at all, you sluts.
I was talking to a guy who owns a pest extermination company last night about this, and he agrees that people being more hygienic is really the only way Atlanta will ever make a dent in the problem. He offers an anti-mosquito treatment for US$250, sure, but "it doesn't work after the first good rain." Why? Because it's poison based, they basically spray your whole yard down with carcinogens and the mosquitos die first, your kids and pets later on. He says people often use this service for weddings and other big parties, because hey, if someone drove 15hrs to wish you well in your nuptuals, why not thank them with the gift of untreatable cancer?
It's filthy and disgusting and rude, and I can't do anything about it. Hence this rant. Carry on.
