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The entire problem is that we can't stop someone (namely Mr. Mosquito) from coming up to us with a needle full of something and stabbing us with it (that they a
by autoexec 2y ago
The entire problem is that we can't stop someone (namely Mr. Mosquito) from coming up to us with a needle full of something and stabbing us with it (that they already stabbed other people with) without our consent.
I'd much prefer we got rid of Mr. Mosquito, but if we won't (or can't) we can at least make sure that what's in that jerk's needle stops killing people every day.
- theultdev 2y agoWe can get rid of disease-carrying mosquitos, many countries do it. You can modify them to not reproduce if you're modifying them already for this instance. If it's a matter of "won't" then we should ask "why not", instead of allowing someone to do this.
- kevlened 2y ago> We can get rid of mosquitos, many countries do it. Curious to know where I can find no mosquitoes, other than Iceland and Antarctica.
- theultdev 2y agoThailand and many asian countries have eradicated the troubling mosquitos (not entirely but with great success, especially in urban areas) The US has also had great success in their eradication and mitigation programs.
- notahacker 2y agoThey're more likely to give you dengue than malaria, but one thing Thailand has definitely not eradicated is the likelihood of getting bitten by mosquitos with great regularity...
- theultdev 2y agoYes and you still get bit in the US but malaria is a thing of the past. The point is not to get rid of all mosquitos, just the disease-carrying ones.
- autoexec 2y agoAren't all mosquitos that bite humans potentially the disease-carrying ones? In the US we've just been fairly lucky but it's not as if mosquitos carrying West Nile/Zika/Chikungunya/Eastern Equine Encephalitis aren't infecting Americans
- j-bos 2y agoMaybe not mosquitos, but the US maintains a screwworm wall that keeps them from eating anyone anything north of Panama.
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- Facemelters 2y agoyou think there's ... less risk with genetically modifying a species to die out?
- theultdev 2y agoYes, we've been doing it for awhile in the US. Thailand has also done it with great success.
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- Lordarminius 2y agoYou hold a very simplistic and naive view.
- pesus 2y agoYou're welcome to contribute anything to the conversation besides blindly throwing out insults with no explanation.
- greycol 2y agoThe person he's replying to has a simplistic view, his view is "injecting parasites into people without their permision bad" a very fine view to have. However we're discussing a situation where these parasites are infact symbiotes, were alternatives are more deaths. We're also not doing it from a position of "mosquitos couldn't be used to spread human selectable things to kill humans before and now people suddenly can spread genetically modified killer parasites". The one thing this research does is add the ability to spread immunity to malaria through mosquito population it doesn't change anything else about what could be spread by mosquitos before. People have been using animals to spread disease as a weapon of war since medieval times this is not a new vector that will suddenly be exploited. This can only be a good thing unless you view the vaccines as a danger worse than the disease (which with such a widespread and deadly disease would be rather unlikely in any objective sense) or to be simplistic you believe in the inalienable right to be a vector to spread diseases to those around you.
- canucker2016 2y agoThat'd be Ms./Mrs. Mosquito. from https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/about/about-mosquito-bites.html https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/about/about-mosquito-bites.ht... - Female mosquitoes bite people and animals to get a blood meal. - Most female mosquitoes cannot produce eggs without a blood meal. - Male mosquitoes do not bite people and animals.