Boise will have an aerial spraying of Dibrom or Naled, an organo phosphate, this monday and tuesday. Idaho has had 5 W. Nile Virus related deaths recently
and the disease is listed here in Boise as 'epidemic.' This is an 'emergency' of course so screw you citizen, were spraying the place with a neuro toxin.
The argument in favor is that this is a health emergency so discussion over we need to kill all the mosquitos.
Is that possible?
When do they spray next?
What exactly are the ramifications to the fish and other insects?
What exactly is the future of W NileVirus here in Boise? ...Is it here to stay?
If it is here to stay then do we spray our city and river every year?
What is the end game here? Are we trying to eliminate the disease or minimalize it?

My thoughts are:
1. I am getting a little tired of being governed by emergency dictate but maybe that's just the way it is these days.
2. Do they spray every day in Cairo?
3. Main question, is there another way? I suspect that from now and forever we will have to live with this. Can we all talk?
4. I notice 50,000 plus U.S.citizens die every year from traffic fatalities. Can we get going and start bombing our freeways?

DUers are intelligent people and can poke holes in my peeve and really I welcome that because maybe I need a reality check.
Guess i'm just worried about what this will do to the critters and the whole nature thing. One of my very narrow minded views of
Americans is that this solution is just so typical. When nature upsets us we are egotistical enough to think we can conquer it. In doing
so we often screw up the balance thing.

Thoughts? Talk amongst yourselves. I'd make latkes but I don't know how.