TIME article on bugs

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...

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.