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> My husband remembers him mixing up the chemicals with his bare arm immersed completely in it. I think one of the issues with DDT was that it was perceived as
by omegaham 10y ago
> My husband remembers him mixing up the chemicals with his bare arm immersed completely in it.
I think one of the issues with DDT was that it was perceived as entirely safe. People dumped it on themselves during WWII as an anti-flea treatment.
Other insecticides are far more acutely toxic, meaning that mixing the chemicals with your bare arm is going to kill you. This means that people are going to be more careful in applying it rather than just casting it everywhere.
- bbctol 10y agoKids used to chase DDT trucks and play in the fog they sprayed out. While we may talk these days about how people are too paranoid over "chemicals," before films like Silent Spring people were far too confident that they were safe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2NmuQW8cjE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2NmuQW8cjE