Here we have wolbachia, fogging (rarely used so much now, I think), education initiatives, inspections, and notifications. There are also some products you can buy. Eg. mosquito screens , sprays with deet, cremes with deet, UV bug zappers, coils that can be burned, then some things that have more sophisticated approaches like carbon dioxide emitting zappers that use IR to attract and the CO2 to simulate the breath of a human. Fish are sometimes used, guppies, and there are screens on water tanks, and also chemical barriers, usually a form of oil, that can be used on the surface.
The primary control method is drainage management, which actually is terrible for other insects.
This is roofing, gutters, and stormwater systems that are engineered around the water not accumulating for more than a few days, as the angle and flow is so carefully engineered.
But the systems relied on by individuals most, that I relied on, to avoid mosquitoes when they were prevalent and Ross River Fever, or Dengue Fever were circulating in th suburb or near suburb, were to use insecticide pads or fluid in warm emitters, and to dress more completely using a tighter clothing weave.
That’s chemical emitters which also poison people and other insects I guess, for emergencies, and dressing differently, and remaining indoors, inside screened buildings, when mosquitoes were at the worst levels.
There are other new things I can conceive of, new inventions I thought of while reading the headline, even before reading the article, that work to handle mosquitoes to some degree, by slightly reducing the chance of mosquitoes breeding, non-toxic, no chemicals or bacterial or viral techniques.
However many of them would be a unworkable waste stream (more non-reycycleable rubbish) or not make much impact on their own, and they would take comprehensive scientific tests to get functional and legally safe or approved for use in places so would need high investment. Also, they may detract from the primary control systems people rely on today, and mosquitoes would rapidly evolve to avoid them, as they would kill all the mosquitoes that didn’t avoid them. They may have been thought of before or trialled, thought probably not in the ways I can imagine, with the designs I imagine.
Legally, they are a risk too, as they would be only ever partially effective to reduce mosquito numbers, not to achieve much more than that.
However, they could be a component in a strategy and might not be patented, or might have had patents expired if they are partially described.
What are the best systems in use at each level today?
Eg.
International governmental bodies
Federal government
State government
Local government
Municipal region (city) government or Association
Suburban representativea
Gang/Family/Community groups
Parents
Individuals
Educational bodies or institutions
Media (print)
Media (online) (break this down to the hundreds to thousands of categories?)
Media (FTA broadcast TV)
Media (PPV / subscription)
Sport clubs
Commercial centre (eg. Shopping district)
Language subgroups
Health agencies or departments not related to Governments or that cross them/bridge them
Etc?
Do they all have their own approach to assisting?
Has anyone any public consultations that apply holistic or a diversity of approaches?
What are the approaches applied by the wealthy? The expatriates that settled there? Do they mirror the existing approaches?
Particularly, what approaches can individuals take?
Are there any inventions from Brasil that have been locally made for local conditions? How many of them are there?
What drugs prevent people from taking action?
Is it malnutrition or apathy?
Are they addicts of other things. Eg. Social or gaming or online things? What memetic approaches do people practice in conversation that are counter-productive eg. Sayings or beliefs or perceptions or imagination that is communicated such that it increases risk?
Is it because many in the population are somewhat less affected due to past generations having faced this for a long time, so have natural resistance, and the affected are a small or tiny number of the overall population?
Is the infection beneficial in some situations as it has already-unwell people who were dying of other causes ‘wake up’? Is the current infection crisis or disease epidemic the first where comprehensive analysis of the genetics of victims is being undertaken in that region of the world?
There are many, many questions I could ask, but it would be interesting to read more about the approaches taken by those who appreciate handling the virus without damaging the environment or habitats, or lifting people above the effects by working to help them develop personal approaches that they can teach others.
Does anybody have any suggestions or observations?
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What are the usual control methods?
Here we have wolbachia, fogging (rarely used so much now, I think), education initiatives, inspections, and notifications. There are also some products you can buy. Eg. mosquito screens , sprays with deet, cremes with deet, UV bug zappers, coils that can be burned, then some things that have more sophisticated approaches like carbon dioxide emitting zappers that use IR to attract and the CO2 to simulate the breath of a human. Fish are sometimes used, guppies, and there are screens on water tanks, and also chemical barriers, usually a form of oil, that can be used on the surface.
The primary control method is drainage management, which actually is terrible for other insects.
This is roofing, gutters, and stormwater systems that are engineered around the water not accumulating for more than a few days, as the angle and flow is so carefully engineered.
But the systems relied on by individuals most, that I relied on, to avoid mosquitoes when they were prevalent and Ross River Fever, or Dengue Fever were circulating in th suburb or near suburb, were to use insecticide pads or fluid in warm emitters, and to dress more completely using a tighter clothing weave.
That’s chemical emitters which also poison people and other insects I guess, for emergencies, and dressing differently, and remaining indoors, inside screened buildings, when mosquitoes were at the worst levels.
There are other new things I can conceive of, new inventions I thought of while reading the headline, even before reading the article, that work to handle mosquitoes to some degree, by slightly reducing the chance of mosquitoes breeding, non-toxic, no chemicals or bacterial or viral techniques.
However many of them would be a unworkable waste stream (more non-reycycleable rubbish) or not make much impact on their own, and they would take comprehensive scientific tests to get functional and legally safe or approved for use in places so would need high investment. Also, they may detract from the primary control systems people rely on today, and mosquitoes would rapidly evolve to avoid them, as they would kill all the mosquitoes that didn’t avoid them. They may have been thought of before or trialled, thought probably not in the ways I can imagine, with the designs I imagine.
Legally, they are a risk too, as they would be only ever partially effective to reduce mosquito numbers, not to achieve much more than that.
However, they could be a component in a strategy and might not be patented, or might have had patents expired if they are partially described.
What are the best systems in use at each level today?
Eg.
International governmental bodies
Federal government
State government
Local government
Municipal region (city) government or Association
Suburban representativea
Gang/Family/Community groups
Parents
Individuals
Educational bodies or institutions
Media (print)
Media (online) (break this down to the hundreds to thousands of categories?)
Media (FTA broadcast TV)
Media (PPV / subscription)
Sport clubs
Commercial centre (eg. Shopping district)
Language subgroups
Health agencies or departments not related to Governments or that cross them/bridge them
Etc?
Do they all have their own approach to assisting?
Has anyone any public consultations that apply holistic or a diversity of approaches?
What are the approaches applied by the wealthy? The expatriates that settled there? Do they mirror the existing approaches?
Particularly, what approaches can individuals take?
Are there any inventions from Brasil that have been locally made for local conditions? How many of them are there?
What drugs prevent people from taking action?
Is it malnutrition or apathy?
Are they addicts of other things. Eg. Social or gaming or online things? What memetic approaches do people practice in conversation that are counter-productive eg. Sayings or beliefs or perceptions or imagination that is communicated such that it increases risk?
Is it because many in the population are somewhat less affected due to past generations having faced this for a long time, so have natural resistance, and the affected are a small or tiny number of the overall population?
Is the infection beneficial in some situations as it has already-unwell people who were dying of other causes ‘wake up’? Is the current infection crisis or disease epidemic the first where comprehensive analysis of the genetics of victims is being undertaken in that region of the world?
There are many, many questions I could ask, but it would be interesting to read more about the approaches taken by those who appreciate handling the virus without damaging the environment or habitats, or lifting people above the effects by working to help them develop personal approaches that they can teach others.
Does anybody have any suggestions or observations?