There is a bedbug pandemic in this country. Ask anybody in the pest control business. There are bedbugs in expensive hotels, movie theaters, and probably on airliners. Pest control treatment is expensive and there are no guarantees that they can be eliminated. Bedbugs were eradicated in this country in the early 20th century. Gee, I wonder if open borders and illegal immigration have anything to do with it?
Open borders is the gas the fuels this fire.
Two words: DDT ban.
A mattress store had to close when their shipment from a major manufacturer (Sealy if I'm not mistaken) had BEDBUGS.
Open borders & illegals have a lot to do with bed bugs. In warmer climes such as Mexico & CAm & SAm bed bugs are rampant. Ditto in populated countries like Southern China & India. Jet travel is very popular now-a-days, we have lots of visitors & students & immigrants from everywhere. Get used to bed bugs.
Only good thing about bed bugs is they are not known to be carriers of serious diseases like Lyme’s disease or Ebola or plague; Because bed bugs bite basically only humans. Growing up in a warm climate, I have lots of experience with bed bugs. We placed our bedding and cots in the hot blaring sun for several hours and that fried all the bugs except their eggs. They drink very little blood, they are a nuisance but not a catastrophe. I think Americans fear bed bugs more than necessary. I think head lice and fleas are worse. Bed bugs bite mostly at night. Most of the time you won’t be even aware. Kerosene or gasoline will kill them quickly.
” Bedbugs were eradicated in this country in the early 20th century. Gee, I wonder if open borders and illegal immigration have anything to do with it?”
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Yes, illegals and open borders and the outlawing of DDT for questionable reasons. Bring back DDT.
Probably not much. Bedbugs were never "eradicated," they were just reduced in number till nobody really thought about them.
The real problem is the bugs developing resistance to many pesticides, which is a natural process, often aggravated by overuse, and the banning of several of the more effective pesticides back in the 90s. This allowed the few bedbugs already present to begin to multiply naturally. There's no inherent need for them to have been brought in from overseas.