Who would let the bed bugs bite? The feds of course.
If you are looking for a reason to support the Tenth Amendment movement, turn a bedsheet or two in Ohio.
Seems the EPA no longer allows the pesticide Propoxur to be sold for home use. Why?
Is Propoxur unsafe? Hardly, Propoxur is “a decades-old pesticide that many see as the best, and cheapest, way to stop the voracious bugs.”
What changed? According to Andrew Christman, owner of the Ohio Exterminating Co. and president of the Ohio Pest Management Association, “Propoxur had long been labeled for use in homes. It lost that status last year because the manufacturer had declined to pay to re-test and re-register the product.”
So the manufacturer decides that the cost for federal testing and registration is too high and now “[m]any low-income families and elderly residents repeatedly suffer from bites because they cannot afford extermination, which generally costs between $200 and $500 per application.”
Remind me, who does government benefit?
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Well, I guess the State of Ohio should simply give away some other, less effective, treatment to poor people and the elderly. That seems to be how we “fix” things like this.
This reminds me of the old joke about lawyers and sharks, or the line in the Declaration of Independence about “swarms of officers to harass our People and eat out their Substance”…
Why do politicians protect insect pests?
Professional courtesy.
A somewhat different process led to the banning of lawn herbicides for home use all over Ontario and Quebec.There have always been a lot of people who for lack of a better term I will call “whiners”, who insist that they are dreadfully allergic or sensitive to “all chemicals”. Furthermore they and even a lot of government so-called authorities claimed that evidence linked the broadleaf herbicide 2,4-D to cancer, which was a flat-out lie. The actual experts on chemicals and horticulture weren’t claiming this, but the leftie medical officers of municipal governments and a handful of GP doctors who were not qualified as experts on either chemicals, cancer or epidemiology. The third “interested party” consisted of armchair eco-warriors and apartment-dwelling lefties who hate those large, well-groomed lawns which are a symbol of hard work, achievement and conscientious neighborliness in the suburbs. These groups teamed up and got herbicides banned for “ornamental” use, i.e. lawns, but of course the herbicides are perfectly safe and are still used in massive amounts on farms and golf courses.
The whiners showed up at hearings and whined … the eco-warriors showed up and made outrageous claims about the environment … the leftie bureaucrats and doctors showed up and told slippery untruths about “evidence” while not managing to produce any consistent scientific studies which supported their point … and now people’s lawns are slowly deteriorating into a mass of weeds. I’m not defending the aesthetic or the attitude of having a huge, perfectly manicured lawn, it has never been my style and I seldom used herbicides to control weeds, and it’s not the end of the world. But what is outrageous are the lies and hypocrisy. For example the municipal sports fields when not controlled for weeds will gradually deteriorate into an dandelion patch which is unsafe for running, after which the city will at great expense tear up and replant the field using using sod grown on nearby farms (actually inside of their municipal boundaries) using … you guessed it … good old 2,4-D.
Another unintended consequence is that ragweed has flourished spectacularly in urban wastelands such as vacant lots and construction sites. It seems that the owners don’t bother to control this any more because of the bad reputation of herbicides and the prevailing government attitude of “no weed left behind”. Of course this causes a tremendous amount of allergic problems including asthma which is a main reason for hospital ER visits and even mortality. In Quebec a group of asthma sufferers sued the municipalities and landowners for this disgraceful flouting of the laws against allowing noxious weeds to flourish, so they passed a law which *retroactively* removed any requirement to control weeds. I have to point out that this action is entirely logical from the government perspective however because more chaos, more controversy and more disasters always lead to increased government power, to fix the problems which they created or made worse.
This reminds me of the classic protection racket. You pay up, or we won’t let you run your business.
It’s not like they don’t already know its safe.
That’s the point. Is has suddenly become unsafe because they did not pay up. Today it’s safe, certificate expires, tomorrow it’s unsafe
The only problem I have with this post is that it claims bed bugs can be stopped. This is a lie. Once you have bed bugs, you have them for life. I’ve had 3 different exterminators come to my apartment with zero success. Good thing the apartment owners are paying for it.
I thought I read an article online somewhere in which the author theorized that the recent increase in bed bugs is a result of previously successful pesticides from the 1950s being banned. Now, the pesticides exterminators are left with simply aren’t as effective.
My understanding is that the pesticide business is very intentionally being killed off by the enviropinkofascists. Whether its mosquitoes in Minnesota, Red Ants or Scorpions in Texas or Bed bugs in Ohio, proven pesticides are gone and the population of critters is exploding. It’s all part of the Master Plan to reduce humanity’s pesky burden Gaia, aka, Mother Earth.
As for bed bugs, I think DDT used to be 100% effective. I am sure some intrepid fan of Peter Singer, Michael Mann and their ilk is busy in some lab trying to come up with the equivalent of DDT for humanity. That one will be licensed by the Feds for sure! Just like AZT.
Very minor if at all any harm to people. Sad, that this will be replaced especially since DC has one of the worst bed bug problems in recent years.
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/metiram-propoxur/propoxur-ext.html
ACUTE TOXICITY
Propoxur is classified as highly toxic to humans. Carbamates can be absorbed in a variety of ways: breathing, eating and/or skin contact (1).
During wide-scale spraying of propoxur in malarial control activities conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO), only mild cases of poisoning were noted. Applicators who used propoxur regularly showed a pronounced daily fall in whole blood cholinesterase activity and a distinct recovery after exposure stopped. No adverse cumulative effects on cholinesterase activity were demonstrated (27, 20). Human adults have ingested single doses of 90 mg of propoxur without apparent symptoms (4). A 42 year old male volunteer who ingested 1.5 mg/kg of propoxur experienced cholinesterase inhibition symptoms including nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, increased pulse rate and profuse sweating, with full recovery 3 hours after the dose was taken (25, 28). Volunteers fed 0.20 mg/kg every half hour for a total dose of 1.0 mg/kg were symptomless, but blood tests showed that cholinesterase inhibition occurred and peaked at greater than 50 percent (25, 28).
As with other carbamate compounds, propoxur’s cholinesterase-inhibiting effect is short-term and reversible (7). Symptoms of propoxur poisoning include nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, sweating, diarrhea, excessive, salivation, weakness, imbalance, blurring of vision, breathing difficulty, increased blood pressure or ‘hypertension’ and lack of control of urine or feces release, referred to as ‘incontinence.’ Death may result from respiratory system failure associated with propoxur exposure (4). Complete recovery from an acute poisoning by propoxur, with no long-term health effects, is possible if exposure ceases and the victim has time to reform their normal level of cholinesterase and to recover from symptoms (25, 7).
Carbamates generally are excreted rapidly and do not accumulate in mammalian tissue. If exposure does not continue, cholinesterase inhibition reverses rapidly. In non-fatal cases, the illness generally lasts less than 24 hours (31).
The amount of a chemical that is lethal to one-half (50%) of experimental animals fed the material is referred to as its acute oral lethal dose fifty, or LD50. The LD50 for propoxur in rats ranges from 83 mg/kg to 150 mg/kg (28, 2, 7, 8). In rats, propoxur poisoning resulted in brain pattern and learning ability changes at lower concentrations than those which caused cholinesterase-inhibition and/or organ weight changes (20). The oral LD50 in mice is 23.5 mg/kg (28), 40 mg/kg in guinea pigs (28, 16). Twelve-month old male goats have an oral LD50 greater than 800 mg/kg (9). The oral LD50 for technical propoxur in rats was 50 mg/kg for males and 104 mg/kg for females (26).
Propoxur is reportedly less toxic when absorbed through the skin, than when it is ingested (11). The dermal LD50 in rats is greater than 2,400 – 5,000 mg/kg in rats. In rabbits, the LD50 is 500 mg/kg (28, 8, 2). 500 mg of technical Baygon dissolved in acetone did not cause skin irritation with 72 hours of application to the skin of rabbits. Tests show that propoxur is not an eye irritant (28).
Sometimes when a chemical is targeted as a “killer” by environmental groups it is because the patent has expired and the maker is about to lose their monopoly. This was the motive behind the movement to ban freon, er, Freon, and I wonder if it was also behind the campaigns against DDT and other chemicals. The demonizing of 2,4-D comes to mind.
Presumably the company or companies which have the most promising replacement products in the R&D and (most importantly) patent pipelines find ways to put money into the hands of environmental agents provocateurs and get the campaign under way. It only takes a little push from one or two key enviro-organizations for the army of enviro-idiots to mobilize. This is yet another reason why “ex” government spies are so highly sought after in the corporate world. When lying and provocation are what you need …
There is no doubt a lot of really juicy investigative journalism/blogging/authoring waiting to be done to get to the bottom of this.
I think Penn and Teller did a wonderful show on the environuts when they passed around a petition to ban water. As a tshirt at my kids oh so hippie school proclaimed: “Green is the new black.” (More precisely: Green is the new Red.)
Here in New York there are little to no over-the-counter bed bugs treatments. If you cannot afford the bed bug treatment program, people tend to use lower-end pest control companies, and probably never end up getting rid of them.
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Who does the government benefit? Usually itself. Corrupt government benefits no one, the rest of it–in a democracy–benefits the public which is SUPPOSED to control it. BUT, if you waiting for government to come over to your bedroom and figure out why you’re itching, forget about it! That’s something YOU need to know how to do. And that’s why I set up my own site–as a journalist, not selling anything except the vetted products our advertisers carry, intending to let YOU take control of your own situation. Best, Hayden
Thankfully necessity is the mother of invention and there are now some effective SAFE treatments for bed bugs
I can’t believe that the cost is over 200$. The Government should do something about the bed bug problem.
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Personally I think it’s ridiculous to ban something that has proven itself to be safe over the past several years, but that’s the way it goes. Luckily there are still some good bed bug products available if you have trouble with these annoying pests.
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