They used to fog for skeeters with DDT. We would ride our bikes through the poisonous plumes. There haven’t been any side effects so far.
Roger that. We did as kids in Tampa circa 1951/52. Still waiting for my third eye.
They used to fog for skeeters with DDT. We would ride our bikes through the poisonous plumes. There haven’t been any side effects so far.
I’d tell them, “He died...while climbing a mountain 30 years later in his 80s.”
Same here - almost 50 years ago.
Me and friend Joey would pretend our bikes were fighter planes flying through the clouds...
Kids in my neighborhood were thrilled to follow the “Mosquito Man,” too.
DDT is still considered the safest pesticide ever made. We used to dust out soldiers with it in WWII and distribute it in our gardens with our bare hands.
I had a similar experience growing up back in the 1970s. Right around the time school let out for the summer, our city would send fog trucks through the neighborhoods spraying for mosquitoes with DDT. In fact, I can still remember the smell.
It worked too. We could sit out on our porches at night and play in the yards without getting chewed up by those infernal things. Of course, they shut those down long ago, the result being that going out into your yard to cook some hamburgers is like going into the deep woods of New Hampshire. Everybody is slapping themselves silly and hankering to get back indoors.
Mothers in Appalachia dosed their children with a teaspoon of DDT to kill worms in their gut. A song from the period, up until the mid 60’s was: “Ain’t no flies on Jesus ‘cause He’s sprayed with DDT!” It was widely considered a salvation pesticide. Harmless and cheap.
Lyndon Johnson had it banned as a sop to the enviro crowd, especially the racist Carson to assuage racists who opposed Civil Rights laws. This insured the death of minority children. That same racist policy persists to today with the same evil results.
We did that too, back in the 50s.