Keep in mind that bug repellants don’t repel anything. They merely hide you a little bit from the skeeter’s senses. And running youth give off plenty of carbon dioxide and compounds in their sweat to attract the insects. The repellant will only help so much. Better to wear long sleeves and pants as much as possible to keep skin covered, at least during high risk times.

One of the unfortunate parts of being a teenager is the belief that ‘it can’t happen to me.” The lad was inclined to blow the warning off, but I made him sit down and read a couple of things I printed out for him. The likelihood of contracting the disease is probably not great, but there is no sense in taking undue risks. I think the articles scared him a little, especially since a 20 year old just over the border in NH died of EEE this weekend. It’s out there and it’s close by. So yes, long pants, long sleeves, and deet. And out of the park before 6PM. He took the articles with him today to help encourage team mates to protect themselves. I hate mosquitoes.

I for one am very surprised at the lack of skeeters this year! I thought for sure we would all go nuts about them lol. But ya know, we haven’t really seen that many at all. A bit more than you would see in Cali but, not many. But then again, we really haven’t been out doors very much this year either.

Every time I see anything about EEE it just aggravates the heck out of me. How many people have to die before they SPRAY? But gawd forbid we should piss of any environmentalist about what it would do to our plants and animals, lets just let our children die instead. Much better plan don’t ya think.
Now I know it wouldn’t be 100% but it sure would cut the chance a great deal. Now I am all for organic growing and such when I have a garden. And not once when I lived in CA did I have to use anything toxic. But here, sometimes I think it might just be needed.

When it comes to EEE, I say spray. They are spraying to the south of us. But it’s always a hard sell around here. I think the last time they sprayed here was around 1994. I’ll live with mosquitoes most of the time, without more than a grumble or two. But when we hit a year where they are spreading a potentially deadly virus, that’s cause enough to get aggressive about controlling them.