Nina Burleigh, pp. 63-64 of TIME, writes on bedbugs, which she first encountered in Italy. She has done good research, and adds to the consensus that most sprays are not an answer, but heat is; 113 degrees Farenheit. Which she notes costs thousands of dollars; does it really? I mean, to leave a few burners on in a room for at most a few hours? Methinks they doth charge too much, whoever is running this operation. In this case, maybe the local governments could allocate money to get such apparatus and just do the jobs with taxpayers' money, as it is in the public interest. People ought not to have to take out a loan to get free of bugs.
The problem is growing out of control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the EPA, and the Department of Defense are all involved. Why the latter? Because this is a real and present danger. If it continues to infest the US, it will bring the US to a halt. People in Ohio sleep outside so bad are the bugs in their houses.
In NY, the press continues to sleep, copying the odd press release from AP, or trying to sell us DDT (which TIME notes is useless). I went to the offices of the Daily News on Thursday, only to be shut out. I called them, and no one wanted to give a name or tell me why they were ignoring a story about the building down the road from them where former servicemen are evicted for cleaning; and where thousands of bugs leave each day to infest America. I guess the Daily News does not care about America or its servicemen. They do care about themselves, with high security all over that building. It's like trying to talk to scared sissies. What are they afraid of? All I had in my hands was the article from the Epoch Times...and of course the dangerous weapons os sarcasm...way too much for them to take. When I asked their names they refused to be identified. What stinking cowards.
The Post did a lengthy piece this week by a rich person - they seem to do one whenever someone rich or trendy gets a bug - who also did not want to be identified - writing under the nom de plume of Cordelia von Bedbug. I wonder if any of it was even true. But that may be just my cynical nature. Which may be due in part to the fact that crackheads write major stories in the press here in NY that are not true or are stolen from other journalists - just ask Jayson Blair of the New York Times; from which I am still waiting to hear back.
In the meantime, I have fired off a letter to Christine Quinn, one of the most powerful politicians in NYC - and so we will see what she does about this. BTW, the building is a one minute walk from her office...
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Front page story about bedbugs in Epoch Times
Today the NY Daily News noted that NY was the city that did not sleep because of bedbugs, and that it had the prize for being #1 in the US, followed by Philadelphia.
The Epoch Times did a large front page article about where they are in NY, and how to get rid of them. And I helped with that article. It is not often I am surprised by a journalist's diligence - Justin Brown is one reporter who did a great job (and got fired for it after questioning the local politicians in his reporting on the Kenmore Hotel in NY), and Genevieve Roberts at the Independent/Evening Standard in London are two stars in that world, which for the most part I find lackluster. Now Andrea Hayley shines in my opinion. She took weeks to do this story, looked up the science on the subject, talked to a number of experts and politicians, and actually snuck into a male only establishment late at night to get her scoop.
The site of her clandestine nocturnal escapades is the Vigilant Hotel, situated at 370 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. It is where I collected 4,000 bebugs in one room in 4 months. From its portals it is estimated that a steady stream of 2,000 bugs a week leave on the residents and the trash. And this has been going on for years, so it is thought by many to be the 'Ground Zero' of New York's epidemic.
For some reason management does not want residents to clean it; former paratrooper Chris Lugo was told to leave immediately after trying to clean his room of bugs, thousands of them he notes in the article.
To be fair to the owner, Hayley called the hotel and interviewed the manager, Mike Snell, who tried somewhat to defend the situation. But there is not much defence here - not for a place where garbage cans go uncovered and mice play in them all the time. Not in a place that evicts people for cleaning. Not in a place where the ceiling style of the rooms harbours mice and bugs - they refuse a court order to change this.
So what are New Yorkers to do about this place that breeds bedbugs? Possibly nothing. Which means that the bugs will win, they will come out and bite you, your babies, your pets, and anything with blood. They will defecate all over anything and leave their outer shells around when they moult. So, as Snell, the Vigilant manager seems to urge, just get used to it. Those are your options. Fight or die.
What things ought the city and its residents do? #1 is take over the Vigilant as a menace to society. Get a hold of the owners - Hayley notes that she couldn't quite track down 'Yumin Management' btb owned by Etsuko Takeuchi - and throw them out. As for individuals, thouroughly clean your apartment. Then get ziploc and snapshut bags and containers, place all papers in the bags and other things that might hide bugs in containers. Get sticky traps around the legs of your beds. And urge your legislators to close the Vigilant.
The Epoch Times did a large front page article about where they are in NY, and how to get rid of them. And I helped with that article. It is not often I am surprised by a journalist's diligence - Justin Brown is one reporter who did a great job (and got fired for it after questioning the local politicians in his reporting on the Kenmore Hotel in NY), and Genevieve Roberts at the Independent/Evening Standard in London are two stars in that world, which for the most part I find lackluster. Now Andrea Hayley shines in my opinion. She took weeks to do this story, looked up the science on the subject, talked to a number of experts and politicians, and actually snuck into a male only establishment late at night to get her scoop.
The site of her clandestine nocturnal escapades is the Vigilant Hotel, situated at 370 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. It is where I collected 4,000 bebugs in one room in 4 months. From its portals it is estimated that a steady stream of 2,000 bugs a week leave on the residents and the trash. And this has been going on for years, so it is thought by many to be the 'Ground Zero' of New York's epidemic.
For some reason management does not want residents to clean it; former paratrooper Chris Lugo was told to leave immediately after trying to clean his room of bugs, thousands of them he notes in the article.
To be fair to the owner, Hayley called the hotel and interviewed the manager, Mike Snell, who tried somewhat to defend the situation. But there is not much defence here - not for a place where garbage cans go uncovered and mice play in them all the time. Not in a place that evicts people for cleaning. Not in a place where the ceiling style of the rooms harbours mice and bugs - they refuse a court order to change this.
So what are New Yorkers to do about this place that breeds bedbugs? Possibly nothing. Which means that the bugs will win, they will come out and bite you, your babies, your pets, and anything with blood. They will defecate all over anything and leave their outer shells around when they moult. So, as Snell, the Vigilant manager seems to urge, just get used to it. Those are your options. Fight or die.
What things ought the city and its residents do? #1 is take over the Vigilant as a menace to society. Get a hold of the owners - Hayley notes that she couldn't quite track down 'Yumin Management' btb owned by Etsuko Takeuchi - and throw them out. As for individuals, thouroughly clean your apartment. Then get ziploc and snapshut bags and containers, place all papers in the bags and other things that might hide bugs in containers. Get sticky traps around the legs of your beds. And urge your legislators to close the Vigilant.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Office bugs
The Post yesterday (pp. 32-33) had a feature by Chris Erikson on bugs in the office, which is a growing problem. The creatures have invaded CNN, Elle Magazine, and Euro RSCG Worldwide.
Larry Pinto, a consulting entomologist, says that most office managers have absolutely no idea what's coming down the road. Right he is. These bugs multiply at the rate of 200 per year per individual or more.
Another aspect to this, as Richard Cooper of bedbugcentral.com notes, is that people don't always tell their co-workers about the problem. NYC, after 9/11, adopted the mantra, if you see something, say something, and this applies to the critters as well - or else terrorists will be laughing at NY.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Mosque plans lower Manhattan cancelled due to bedbugs
OK, OK, that title is only a spoof. And I am tempted to cut and paste if verbatim here if I weren't afraid someone would sue me for $4.89. Why that amount? Cause that is all I got...so to protect my nest egg from a major plagiarism suit, I am going to be careful and only post the URL to take you to the site...do read. For now, this story is a spoof, but it could well be true in the not-too-distant future.
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i81136
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i81136
Some basic facts about bedbugs
It seems as if the press cannot get the story straight. For instance, on bedbugger.com, it is noted that CBC in Canada used an image of a beetle, and a rather nice golden one at that, who does not deserve to be tarred with the loser image of the bedbug, on their bedbugs story. Then ABC and CBS did the same; copying each others' mistakes.
We also hear that DDT is supposed to get rid of them; au contraire, they actually increased when DDT was used. One wonders if someone is trying to sell this illegal chemical. Use it and the Bald Eagle will be destroyed - it was banned for this very reason in 1972. It is also bad for humans.
Then there are all the ads for sprays; it has been proven that most of these do not work. Bedbugs are good at developing immunities.
Then we are told they can go without food for six months. Actually, they can go up to 15 months without a drop of our precious blood.
And it seems that they are nocturnal: no, they come out whenever they can, day or night, summer or winter, though they are somewhat of a warm weather fiend. They do not all hibernate in the winter, that is false.
And one more attempted falsehood is the insinuation that they come from the poor and/or immigrants. In reality, they seem to like the Upper East Side, the Hamptons, upscale clothing shops, rare book rooms, etc. Now they are in the Empire State Building.
Truth is that they find rich fabric, especially sumptuously pleated material, a good place to live.
And many journalists forget to check their reproductive rate, which beats rabbits any day; a female can lay up to 400 eggs in her lifetime, and they can reach sexual maturity at six weeks. In cosmopolitan places they start having their sexual adventures early, as there is plenty of human flesh to suck. So we need to get our facts straight and not waste time with ineffective sprays and false hopes that they will just go away during the day and all go to Florida for the winter. Unless prompt action is taken, they are here to stay.
By the way, I have written a letter to the New York Times in which I am giving my real name if they care to publish. Fear and social stigma are not for me, but for cowards and slumlords who do not bother to keep their buildings clean.
We also hear that DDT is supposed to get rid of them; au contraire, they actually increased when DDT was used. One wonders if someone is trying to sell this illegal chemical. Use it and the Bald Eagle will be destroyed - it was banned for this very reason in 1972. It is also bad for humans.
Then there are all the ads for sprays; it has been proven that most of these do not work. Bedbugs are good at developing immunities.
Then we are told they can go without food for six months. Actually, they can go up to 15 months without a drop of our precious blood.
And it seems that they are nocturnal: no, they come out whenever they can, day or night, summer or winter, though they are somewhat of a warm weather fiend. They do not all hibernate in the winter, that is false.
And one more attempted falsehood is the insinuation that they come from the poor and/or immigrants. In reality, they seem to like the Upper East Side, the Hamptons, upscale clothing shops, rare book rooms, etc. Now they are in the Empire State Building.
Truth is that they find rich fabric, especially sumptuously pleated material, a good place to live.
And many journalists forget to check their reproductive rate, which beats rabbits any day; a female can lay up to 400 eggs in her lifetime, and they can reach sexual maturity at six weeks. In cosmopolitan places they start having their sexual adventures early, as there is plenty of human flesh to suck. So we need to get our facts straight and not waste time with ineffective sprays and false hopes that they will just go away during the day and all go to Florida for the winter. Unless prompt action is taken, they are here to stay.
By the way, I have written a letter to the New York Times in which I am giving my real name if they care to publish. Fear and social stigma are not for me, but for cowards and slumlords who do not bother to keep their buildings clean.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Recent News on bedbugs in New York
The front page of the New York Times carried a story about the 'social stigma' of bedbugs...
it seems Jeremy Sparig is, in the words of some, a "mattress left on the street, something best avoided in these times."
If so, Sparig has losers for friends. I will be mentioned in an upcoming article and am not afraid to tell people who I am. For one thing, it's hard to fight this and be anomymous. That's for cowards. Sparig says he is like a leper...
No one having to fight bedbugs ought to go through this. They are not contagious, and if one is clean, and washes out one's clothes, they do not need to travel with you. They hitch no rides on me, I was in the military where we learned to fight these things by being neat. The first thing we did in bootcamp was fold our shirts in equal thirds. So it is not hard to keep the bugs at bay, or at least at home. And then we had ratguards on all the ships, which is a good idea, and can be copied in designing bug-guards around the legs of the bed.
My landlord was probably counting on this fear to keep people from coming forward, many work in some famous places and would not want their boss to know, so I guess it's fair to say some people ought to remain anomymous, but for everyone to do so is cowardice. There is a plague upon the city and the men must be men and stand up and fight it.
Some stories from Thursday and Friday include a note in the amNewY0rk about bedbugs biting in the Times Square AMC 25-plex. Movies theatres are prime targets, and anyone wise would stay out of them. Use common sense: rent a DVD and watch it at home. The AMC did not replaces all its seats - and bedbugs run fast and spread. In a minute they can go the length of a room, so taking out two seats is just a joke. AMC Magic Johnson theatres in Harlem also got them: word to the wise, stay away, unless you want to give blood to these creatures of darkness. And, as I just read in the Audubon Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders, they can live for 15 months without food. So they may lurk for over a year in these dark spaces full of carpets, soft seats, curtains, and other places of interest to the bloodsuckers.The Daily News had much the same story, with Erica Pearson, presumably the same Erica who did not ever get back in touch with me, contributing. It seems it takes two journalists to write 250 words...the story also says that the bugs are hitting prisoners in Riker's. So, don't do the crime unless you want lots of weird looking cell mates. In the Metro, Amy Zimmer says they will be as common as mosquitos. And unless we get Bloomberg to act right away, they will be...even more, as bedbugs are year round pests - do not believe the stupid stuff some journalists are telling you about them hybernating in winter...they are less numerous, but they bite all year round; nor are they nocturnal - they come out when their meal is sleeping, but if you sleep during the day, well, there is no rest to these wicked creatures. You will be eaten alive day or night. Journalists ought to check facts more.
Boy am I mean on the hacks! But they deserve it. The truth about bedbugs, and their HQ on 8th Avenue, known to locals as Ground Zero, ought to have been printed long time ago. But it is being printed now, I hear it will be in on Wednesday, but do not waste your time looking in the Daily News of the NY Post...the reporter has been on this for weeks and will give their readers something worth reading.
And then I expect to hear back from Mayor Bloomberg, and others who do not seem to know how to do their jobs.
it seems Jeremy Sparig is, in the words of some, a "mattress left on the street, something best avoided in these times."
If so, Sparig has losers for friends. I will be mentioned in an upcoming article and am not afraid to tell people who I am. For one thing, it's hard to fight this and be anomymous. That's for cowards. Sparig says he is like a leper...
No one having to fight bedbugs ought to go through this. They are not contagious, and if one is clean, and washes out one's clothes, they do not need to travel with you. They hitch no rides on me, I was in the military where we learned to fight these things by being neat. The first thing we did in bootcamp was fold our shirts in equal thirds. So it is not hard to keep the bugs at bay, or at least at home. And then we had ratguards on all the ships, which is a good idea, and can be copied in designing bug-guards around the legs of the bed.
My landlord was probably counting on this fear to keep people from coming forward, many work in some famous places and would not want their boss to know, so I guess it's fair to say some people ought to remain anomymous, but for everyone to do so is cowardice. There is a plague upon the city and the men must be men and stand up and fight it.
Some stories from Thursday and Friday include a note in the amNewY0rk about bedbugs biting in the Times Square AMC 25-plex. Movies theatres are prime targets, and anyone wise would stay out of them. Use common sense: rent a DVD and watch it at home. The AMC did not replaces all its seats - and bedbugs run fast and spread. In a minute they can go the length of a room, so taking out two seats is just a joke. AMC Magic Johnson theatres in Harlem also got them: word to the wise, stay away, unless you want to give blood to these creatures of darkness. And, as I just read in the Audubon Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders, they can live for 15 months without food. So they may lurk for over a year in these dark spaces full of carpets, soft seats, curtains, and other places of interest to the bloodsuckers.The Daily News had much the same story, with Erica Pearson, presumably the same Erica who did not ever get back in touch with me, contributing. It seems it takes two journalists to write 250 words...the story also says that the bugs are hitting prisoners in Riker's. So, don't do the crime unless you want lots of weird looking cell mates. In the Metro, Amy Zimmer says they will be as common as mosquitos. And unless we get Bloomberg to act right away, they will be...even more, as bedbugs are year round pests - do not believe the stupid stuff some journalists are telling you about them hybernating in winter...they are less numerous, but they bite all year round; nor are they nocturnal - they come out when their meal is sleeping, but if you sleep during the day, well, there is no rest to these wicked creatures. You will be eaten alive day or night. Journalists ought to check facts more.
Boy am I mean on the hacks! But they deserve it. The truth about bedbugs, and their HQ on 8th Avenue, known to locals as Ground Zero, ought to have been printed long time ago. But it is being printed now, I hear it will be in on Wednesday, but do not waste your time looking in the Daily News of the NY Post...the reporter has been on this for weeks and will give their readers something worth reading.
And then I expect to hear back from Mayor Bloomberg, and others who do not seem to know how to do their jobs.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Daily bedbugs stories in Daily News
Looks like the Daily News does not care enough to send a reporter round to the 'Ground Zero' around the corner almost from their offices, but they do like to do stories and cartoons on bugs...Yesterday's paper carried on p.6 a story about Jeremy Sparig, who won the right not to pay almost a years' rent in B'klyn where his apt. was infested. His was a sad tale, but nothing like what we are experiencing near the Daily News offices.
Then they had a cartoon about a couple in bed with the bugs on p.21. Today They mentioned again that bugs haunt the offices of the DA in B'klyn - p.3 - noting that the Secret Service has offices there. So thanks, now Al Qaida knows where the USSS is located in NY. Not so secret evidently...
But while the DN is telling Al Qaida where the USSS is, they are keeping secret the fact that bedbugs are in ALMOST EVERY GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN MANHATTAN - I got that surprising bit when the journalist called me to tell me they had spoken with Gale Brewer, the bedbugs advocate for NY; I happen not to be in her constituency, but in Christien Quinn's, and we will be having a word with Ms. Quinn.
This journalist is really on to this story, which we think will run as a serial as it is really too large to put in one article.
Then they had a cartoon about a couple in bed with the bugs on p.21. Today They mentioned again that bugs haunt the offices of the DA in B'klyn - p.3 - noting that the Secret Service has offices there. So thanks, now Al Qaida knows where the USSS is located in NY. Not so secret evidently...
But while the DN is telling Al Qaida where the USSS is, they are keeping secret the fact that bedbugs are in ALMOST EVERY GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN MANHATTAN - I got that surprising bit when the journalist called me to tell me they had spoken with Gale Brewer, the bedbugs advocate for NY; I happen not to be in her constituency, but in Christien Quinn's, and we will be having a word with Ms. Quinn.
This journalist is really on to this story, which we think will run as a serial as it is really too large to put in one article.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Front page article in Daily News
Today the Daily News is in red, red for bugs that bite in the night...the front page announces what we could have guessed, that there are double the number of sufferers
they thought. So the previous figure on this blog of 400,000 is now superseded by ahe figure of 800,000 New Yorkers who suffer from these bugs, as cited by a Daily News-Marist poll.
It quotes Dan Kass, an assistant commissioner at the Dept. of Health: "There's not a lot of common knowledge about bedbugs...We're now at the point with the resurgence of bedbugs that everyone will have to start looking for them."
Well, duh. Sorry if I sound mean. And it took two journalists there to get this story out...they could have read this blog and known as much in 30 seconds.
And they could also have deduced that the city is not doing enough about it - their poll says 46% of New Yorkers think so.
The NYDN article does not get very specific, or tell us the names of any buildings with any major infestations. That is real journalism and is being left to a more capable paper to handle, so stay tuned to this site...
they thought. So the previous figure on this blog of 400,000 is now superseded by ahe figure of 800,000 New Yorkers who suffer from these bugs, as cited by a Daily News-Marist poll.
It quotes Dan Kass, an assistant commissioner at the Dept. of Health: "There's not a lot of common knowledge about bedbugs...We're now at the point with the resurgence of bedbugs that everyone will have to start looking for them."
Well, duh. Sorry if I sound mean. And it took two journalists there to get this story out...they could have read this blog and known as much in 30 seconds.
And they could also have deduced that the city is not doing enough about it - their poll says 46% of New Yorkers think so.
The NYDN article does not get very specific, or tell us the names of any buildings with any major infestations. That is real journalism and is being left to a more capable paper to handle, so stay tuned to this site...
Sunday, August 15, 2010
District Attorney gets bugged
The Post had a small article the other day about the DA in B'klyn getting rid of some bugs; it notes that ADAs were "milling outside and scratching" as exterminators went after the bugs Thursday...
One aspect of these articles about no bugs or a few bugs is it makes it seem like chemical sprays work. The consensus is they don't, but a fool will listen to some salesman trying to sell a chemical and buy them. In cases where 2 bedbugs were already killed by the tenant or staff, it makes it look like chemical sprays work. From seeing what goes on, and reading up on the internet, it is clear that all or most do not work.
So it is false hope for people who have serious infestations.
What needs to be done it that all buildings with major infestations need to be seriously cleaned and redone, at times all furniture in an apartment needs to either be steamed or thrown out.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Daily News story is no story
There was a story on this in the Daily News that was a non-story; it was about a place that had no bugs and wants no bugs. It got ambiguous when it referred to an infestation, which it had mentioned as non-existent. Get your facts straight. Or just get your facts. I can tell the Daily News that your reporters are below par – I called and emailed many times, spoke to Erica , spoke to Andrew Phillips, emailed others, and had a REAL STORY about a place that has easily thousands of bugs in a room, with over 100 rooms – I told them I could show them all this.
Did they email me back, meet me that day, or call?
NO, NO & NO.
So they ignored a serious story.
WHY?
Another paper sent in undercover journalists and has a real story. That paper is being very thorough, they are working with me on this very carefully, they put more than one reporter on the case, took pictures, and will have a REAL STORY. Not some ambiguous tale about a dog wagging. And that paper will do a real service; it is called preventative journalism. What the Daily News has is called junk. As someone who has lived here since my diaper days, I resent seeing papers like it waste our time. Get some real journalists on it to do some real stories that are of benefit to NY, then I’ll buy it. But till now, there is another paper in town that is working hard and delivering the news. Stay tuned here and I will post more on this...
Did they email me back, meet me that day, or call?
NO, NO & NO.
So they ignored a serious story.
WHY?
Another paper sent in undercover journalists and has a real story. That paper is being very thorough, they are working with me on this very carefully, they put more than one reporter on the case, took pictures, and will have a REAL STORY. Not some ambiguous tale about a dog wagging. And that paper will do a real service; it is called preventative journalism. What the Daily News has is called junk. As someone who has lived here since my diaper days, I resent seeing papers like it waste our time. Get some real journalists on it to do some real stories that are of benefit to NY, then I’ll buy it. But till now, there is another paper in town that is working hard and delivering the news. Stay tuned here and I will post more on this...
Friday, August 13, 2010
Press reaction
So last night some reporters came around, and they got the scoop on this hotel.
Expect a story in a New York newspaper next week, that's all I can say for now.
When it hits, it hits, and the owner will have to answer to New York for his mess
of a hotel.
So sit back, enjoy the weekend, and check back here for a firecracker of a story.
Then we'll see if any of the politicians do their job.
Expect a story in a New York newspaper next week, that's all I can say for now.
When it hits, it hits, and the owner will have to answer to New York for his mess
of a hotel.
So sit back, enjoy the weekend, and check back here for a firecracker of a story.
Then we'll see if any of the politicians do their job.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
REviews of the bedbug palace
Just found on yahoo 2 reviews of the hotel with the thousands of bedbugs.
Seems they are real quality!
Bedbugs are a specialty
By Melvyn, 08/09/10
The first review really summed it up. A year or more later this place is so bad you can get over 1000 bedbugs a month in a room. Men cry out at night from the pain of these insects. The city lets it exist, it may be some sadistic streak on the part of the rich boy mayor who does not care.
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Bedbugs
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 08/24/09
If you like bedbugs---you will love this dump. It is a disgraceful---unsanitary--horrible buidling--that should be condemned!
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Seems they are real quality!
Bedbugs are a specialty
By Melvyn, 08/09/10
The first review really summed it up. A year or more later this place is so bad you can get over 1000 bedbugs a month in a room. Men cry out at night from the pain of these insects. The city lets it exist, it may be some sadistic streak on the part of the rich boy mayor who does not care.
User Rating
Bedbugs
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 08/24/09
If you like bedbugs---you will love this dump. It is a disgraceful---unsanitary--horrible buidling--that should be condemned!
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Shocking revelations on www.bedbugregistry.com
Talked to a journalist yesterday who surprised me, they had taken lots of notes and were studying bedbugregistry.com
That was a scary site, as it lists so many places I know, many in the vicinity of the place I am talking about on this site...from the map it would seem that they all may have gotten their infestations from the 8th Avenue building.
So where is Erica of the Daily News who took my email and said she was interested?
I want to start a hapless journalist registry and name and shame the idiots in the trade, some who cannot even spell in their articles.
Am I mean? Maybe...
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Bedbugs on the books at Mid Manhattan Library
On bedbugger.com there is a recent post about finding bedbugs at the Mid Manhattan Library.
Well, no wonder; Cimex loves to read! And they love to breed in the spines of your books, moult
on them, and defecate all over the edges of the pages. Entire libraries can be at risk here.
So how is the press responding? Rather poorly. Bedbugs have recently been described erroneously on the CBC, with a picture of a beetle instead of a bedug...
But what do we expect from the 'churnalists'? Actually, I am talking to one now, or rather playing phone tag with one who just may do a rather good job. We will see soon. Hopefully the city will listen and close 'Ground Zero', which is what some people call the building on 8th Avenue near the offices of the Daily News (who have NOT responded to calls and emails about this problem.)
Well, no wonder; Cimex loves to read! And they love to breed in the spines of your books, moult
on them, and defecate all over the edges of the pages. Entire libraries can be at risk here.
So how is the press responding? Rather poorly. Bedbugs have recently been described erroneously on the CBC, with a picture of a beetle instead of a bedug...
But what do we expect from the 'churnalists'? Actually, I am talking to one now, or rather playing phone tag with one who just may do a rather good job. We will see soon. Hopefully the city will listen and close 'Ground Zero', which is what some people call the building on 8th Avenue near the offices of the Daily News (who have NOT responded to calls and emails about this problem.)
Monday, August 2, 2010
The NY Post on bedbugs: article by Paul Driessen
Today's NY Post had an article on bedbugs. Written by someone who may have never seen one - they still have not sent anyone round to see the seriousness of the situation of the building infested in their very neighbourhood...
The last post on this site mentioned New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser's pitch to sell DDT to America; it got taken off the market because it was dangerous, and was killing the Bald Eagle.
Below is the post taken with permission from www.hempforvictory.blogspot.com
FOR SALE: DDT
So no surprise that a guest columnist in the same paper is pitching the same product.
He too does it on the back of bedbugs - saying that yes bedbugs are a problem, and the city may not be doing enough about it, but there are many more people suffering from malaria.
Oh how philanthropic it all seems! How the devil appears as an angel of light.
Years ago, when I lived in London, I was a member of ALMA - the Angola-London-Mozambique-Association. We would hear the likes of WHO worker Louis da Gama who spent lots of time in these countries, and unlike Paul Driessen, who writes of bedbugs and malaria today, da Gama did not want to sell billions of people tons of DDT.
If the pesticide companies were so in earnest to treat malaria, they would put money into production of other products. Selling DDT to people sucks. But there are people who well nukes, explosives, child pornography, and, yes, DDT.
The US has a law against it for good reasons. As it has laws against selling nukes, explosives and child pornography.
But getting back to bedbugs. Driessen asserts that they do not kill. Maybe not. After all, they travel from person to person sucking blood. And they are prone to mutate, mainly against pesticides. DDT might only make them stronger.
On bugoutter.com there has been complaint that the Post does not take note of people calling and emailing about a problem building in New York that has up to 2 million bedbugs - with one person collecting 3600 in three months. So let's not think the Post gives a damn about New Yorkers - it is now basically telling them to stop complaining there are worse things.
But what about the livelihood of millions of New Yorkers? If bedbugs don't kill, having no income does. Bedbugs kill the tourism industry, but Driessen does not seem intelligent enough to mention that. He does not have bedbugs, and I bet he does not use DDT either.
I invite him and the Post to look at the problem realistically, and go to the buildings New Yorkers are now calling the Ground Zero of bedbugs.
And of course, I invite them to do an article on hemp too, but that would take a miracle. The paper likes to sell other things that are harmful.
By the way, no surprise that the article under Driessen's was titled "The Building Case for Bombing Iran."
Someone's got to sell those nukes, explosives and child pornography, even if they are illegal many places....
And of course, a few tons of DDT.
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