I usually rather like Ars, but there's something very weird and silly about applying the idea of borders, especially non natural ones, to flies.
"Your puny human constructs are nothing to me, flesh bags."
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Until recently, the screwworm population was kept at bay via a biological barrier along the Darién Gap at the border of Panama and Colombia. The USDA partnered with authorities in Panama to build a sterile fly production facility at the gap to regularly release sterile flies and hold the line. But in 2022, the barrier was breached, and the flies have been relentlessly buzzing northward since.
it makes more sense with context
Good job Texas and maga, actual brainworm time
See!!! If only we would have listened to the magnificent MAGA leader Trump and built the wall that Mexico would have paid for! It would have prevented the Mexican screwworm from illegally crossing the border and hurting REAL Americans^TM^!
/s because this is probably what MAGA believes.
Thanks DOGE!!!!
This is the answer. May screwworms burrow into Elon’s testicles.
texas is the worst state possible to be on the front lines of this. smh
Getting what they voted for. Better there than here
huh? their response to this outbreak is crucial in whether it stops there or keeps spreading. which do you think will happen?
Maybe they will take it seriously since it will affect cattle.
The USDA is actually because this shill fuck the bottom line out of the whole meat industry.
People don't have any idea how true this is. The USDA suffered from corruption before. It is honestly time for a lot of people to start evaluating their diets with regulatory reality.
We can all thank the Sig Heiling feckless loser Elon Musk and his illegal DOGE for this. His ego was so massive that he didn't realize why the government was breeding flies to contain this absolute horror of a parasite.
This will continue to spread, and I hope that Cybertruck shaped moron is personally infected so he can suffer the actual consequences of his bottomless hubris for once in his unfortunately persistent life.
I'm so tired of this shit. People need to hang for these decisions
How neat is it that the screwworm, which was a plague in the 1930s, is back just in time (well, a little early but when the history books are written they'll zoom out the timeline) for our reenactment of the Great Depression? A little on the nose with history repeating itself, but still interesting. I guess we should be on the lookout for another Dust Bowl too.
Here,
https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/soil-moisture-next-dust-bowl/
Take my confirmation bias doomer porn and have a terrifying rest of your day.
Wow, hell of a sign off line.
Who else is excited for WW3??
With the absolute decimation of our scientific divisions in our government don't expect any help with this.
Man to bad we don't have a solution to this problem that we already know works.
That would be so awesome to have right now
Another Trump achievement
RFK grabs the grandkids and heads to Texas.
Aren't Orange's borders impenetrable? Where is ICE? 🙃
Melted.
Time to stock up on more ivermectin 🕺
An Ivermectin a day keeps everything away
Don't forget your alpha brain, the ivermectin gets rid of the bad brain worms but that's only half of the equation, gotta take alpha brain to get the good brain worms in!
Protip if you're squeamish absolutely do not look up photos of what this does to cattle and other fauna. Pure nightmare fuel.
It infects humans too 🙃
Yeah but humans can and would do something about it.
A cow gets a wound, the wound gets infected, and the larva make the wound bigger, probably leading to more even infection - while the cow has no way to deal with that.
If only we elected that guy who promised to build a wall smdh
TLDR USAID protection program didn't get canceled but the zone moved to Mexico border (unclear to me why). Relationship with Mexico was strained and Mexico allowed less flights to disperse sterile flies.
Man... Sure sucks. Certainly there was some waste, fraud and abuse going on in the gubermint screwworm division, and those people obviously should have been fired because they were doing nothing, and now, completely unrelated, this happens.
[Sarcasm] Just take some vitamin A and you will be fine
Humans will be fine beef prices not so much.
I wouldn't doubt that this is going to be blown up by the media so that beef prices can skyrocket and never come back down and that beef companies will suddenly post record breaking profits.
Probably, I'm gonna have to figure out how to replace some of my recipies with impossible/beyond meat since its about the same damn price these days, and this thing is only gonna make beef more expensive.
I'm so tired of "winning"
I swap Impossible and Beyond meat in recipes somewhat regularly. Basically, you just cook it the same. It's easiest in a spaghetti sauce, but I did make a recipe that called for tofu and ground turkey with miso and swapped out the turkey with a couple frozen Beyond patties and it was really good (even better as leftovers when the tofu had a bit more time to absorb the miso flavors). Beyond takes to sauces really well.
I've had them both in burgers a few times and they've always been pretty good so this is exciting to hear it works well especially in sauce.
Time to start bleaching the cows like we do chickens
It's like Measles, Ebola, and Hantavirus are all gleefully employing the Epstein strategy on each other.
Build the fucking wall!!!
Genius! Everyone knows flies can't get around walls!
They have tiny ladders.