Monday, July 13, 2009
Cream East Meets West (Nile): Watch out for Mosquitoes
Posted by Tracy Moore on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:45 AM
What's a nuisance, a public health threat, and whines in your ear? That's right: mosquitoes and hipsters. So it's not such a shock that the West Nile Virus has made its way to the once-thought-to-be impenetrably hip East side.
Alas, though, look at some of the stuff you're supposed to do to protect yourself, and try to imagine your average, run-of-the-mill, scooter-driving scruffy 3 Crow Bar inhabitant take this on (the same one who drives a scooter wearing flip flops and a tank top):
Limit time outdoors at dusk and nighttime hours. Ha, unlikely. This is hipster mating time, since in the right light, almost anyone could be considered handsome.
Wear shoes, socks, long sleeve shirts and pants when outdoors during dusk to dawn. Clothing should be a light color and made of tightly woven materials. Tuck pant legs into shoes or socks and button collars. Eh, maybe some combination of the pants stuffed into the sock works for the cyclist, but otherwise, I'm thinking no hipster I've ever met will sacrifice all that ironic cut-off denim for safety.
Suggestions for our East side pals?
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I'd say most hipsters would be safe even if they were infected. Everyone makes a big deal about WNV but the fact is most people (of hipster age at least) are asymptomatic if infected. So you'd never even know you had it. It's mostly elderly folks who show serious symptoms, if any. The flu is way more dangerous than WNV.
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Fabric softener dryer sheets repel mosquitos. You can rub them on your clothes and exposed limbs or fold them up and stick in your pockets/socks.
so does this mean that the "young professionals" set will be getting West Nile 2 to 3 years from now?
i'll take the skeeters over the chiggers any day. i'm getting slowly killed by chiggers.
I appreciate the concern which is been rose. The things need to be sorted out because it is about the individual but it can be with everyone.The initiative taken for the concern is very serious and need an attention of every one. This is the concern which exists in the
society and needs to be eliminated from the society as soon as possible.
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