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.
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