Put out a giant fan, like the ones used in stables, facing yr neighbor’s place when those guys (who are being poisoned Every Day) show up to spray.
That really fucking sucks.
ETA:
A wonderful next door neighbor briefly worked for a lawn-spraying company, and mom felt obliged to let them do ours. All our cats got cancer and died. She didn’t tell me how long they did it; I know he was with them less than a year.
Her husband was a warpedly jealous asshole who wouldn’t let us have the cats indoors, but mom didn’t have the sense to keep 'em permanently indoors anyway.
The research, collected in 2021, focused on Black and Latina women after previous studies showed they are more often exposed to formaldehyde in nail and hair products than white women. Researchers have questioned whether African American women’s frequent use of chemical hair straighteners, suspected of containing formaldehyde-releasing agents, might explain why breast, uterine and ovarian cancers kill disproportionately more Black than white women.
In 2023, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration was tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical in hair straighteners. Two years later, the government still has failed to act. The FDA declined to comment.
Some companies changed to glutaraldehyde in their hair straighteners. The chemical is used to tan pig heart valves to replace a person’s bad heart valve. I’m not sure how much better it is.
This is why i have confidence in vaccines. Very few medical interventions have the level of post-approval scrutiny that vaccines go through. This is why we don’t use live polio, whole cell pertussis or the first iteration of rotavirus anymore. Very uncommon, on the order of 1 per millions, side-effects and they are gone. Something the antivaxxers try very hard to ignore.
Rotavirus vaccine was first introduced in 1998, and pulled quickly in March of 1999. There was enough coverage in mainstream media that I knew, halfway through 1998, to refuse that one vaccine for my child (who got all the others). That’s how quickly news got around that it wasn’t as safe as the others. No conspiracy ‘hid’ it from us.
But late Friday, the FDA granted the company full approval for its vaccine for use only in adults 65 and older – or those 12 to 64 who have at least one health problem that puts them at increased risk from COVID-19.
I think “one health problem that puts them at increased risk from COVID-19” covers a lot of territory, though. Unless there is an official list which is excessively narrow.
one of the weirdest and most common forms of unintentional disinformation is that doctors and veterinarians prolifically diagnose “spider bites” based on absolutely no evidence of contact with a venomous, medically significant spider, and most of them, if tested, are just MRSA abscesses
