I remember when the mosquito guy would come around the neighborhood spraying his chemicals and all the kids including me running after him because we loved the smell of it.
Mosquito spray truck, water and DDT, kids running behind it getting cool, no one dying, and very few mosquitos.
But after Rachel Carson used her book to get DDT made illegal, I have seen too much malaria in Africa which could have been cheaply and safely dealt with. She and her supporters have killed millions upon millions and I think she wanted to. She was a budding eugenicist in the mode of Hitler and Sanger.