So mosquitoes are something I know quite a bit about due to uni and other things. This advise is to the surprise of nobody both extremely stupid and attempting to peddle a vague mandate in the name of public safety.
"Mosquitoes" refers to over 3000 species of fly from the Genera Culicidae, and while carriers of diseases are far more specific, literally based on the species, unless someone is very well trained and extremely perceptive you can rare ID a mosquito in the wild without it being complete stationary or scanned by a laser sensor.
The former is next to impossible because trying to get close to one will startle it. The latter is costly because even just the scanning component of a photonic fence is going to be expensive and they're not abundant enough to work like that, not are they deployed in 1st world countries for reasons despite the ones that would get deployed in 3rd world counties being stolen and scavenged.
The simple fact is mosquitoes are never, ever going to be eradicated. There are just too many species of them and the only places on Earth they are not found are Antarctica and for reasons relating to just how batshit insane the weather can be, Iceland. That's it. If you want to avoid mosquitoes either move to a land inhabited by penguins and insane research scientists, or a land with so many active volcanos the actual land is still increasing in mass. So either you freeze to death, burn to death, or suffer mosquitoes.
A quick check on EEE says:
It's a Togavirus/Togaviridae, which means it's quite distant from other more common mosquito viruses such as the Flaviviridae which includes Dengue, West Nile, Yellow Fever [hence the name Flavi = yellow in Latin], Japanese Encephalitis, and others.
It is transmitted by Culiseta mosquitoes which transmit the virus between various bird hosts that are then fed upon by other mosquitoes such as Aedes [known for carryiny Dengue], Coquillettidia, and Culex [known for carrying West Nile] which can transfer EEE to mammals.
Some quick searches suggest Culiseta mosquitoes are active in the evening however this might not be the case for all of them and regardless even if it is the presence of other genera/species in the mix means it doesn't matter because if they are active outwith the times being suggested for the curfew then it won't fucking matter!
It was first recognised in Massachusetts in 1831 when 75 horses died.
Florida gets 1 to 2 cases in humans a year with over 60 equine cases.
This can rise to over 200 when conditions favour the virus.
So it's been going on for at least 200 years, because it will have been around before the first reports just nobody realised or cared, and never caused anything more than a few hundred horse deaths, which yes would be financially significant to those affected and moreso 200 years ago but not to the point it should shut down an entire city in 2024.
Also,
EEEV was one of more than a dozen agents that the United States researched as potential biological weapons before the nation suspended its biological-weapons program in 1969, a few years before signing (1972) and then ratifying (1975) the Biological Weapons Convention.
even if it was as bad as they're making it out to be, there's plenty of natural and (if you really wanna go that route) chemical repellents to keep skeeters at bay...
as an example, my family uses (real) vanilla extract. seems to work pretty well.
So mosquitoes are something I know quite a bit about due to uni and other things. This advise is to the surprise of nobody both extremely stupid and attempting to peddle a vague mandate in the name of public safety.
"Mosquitoes" refers to over 3000 species of fly from the Genera Culicidae, and while carriers of diseases are far more specific, literally based on the species, unless someone is very well trained and extremely perceptive you can rare ID a mosquito in the wild without it being complete stationary or scanned by a laser sensor.
The former is next to impossible because trying to get close to one will startle it. The latter is costly because even just the scanning component of a photonic fence is going to be expensive and they're not abundant enough to work like that, not are they deployed in 1st world countries for reasons despite the ones that would get deployed in 3rd world counties being stolen and scavenged.
The simple fact is mosquitoes are never, ever going to be eradicated. There are just too many species of them and the only places on Earth they are not found are Antarctica and for reasons relating to just how batshit insane the weather can be, Iceland. That's it. If you want to avoid mosquitoes either move to a land inhabited by penguins and insane research scientists, or a land with so many active volcanos the actual land is still increasing in mass. So either you freeze to death, burn to death, or suffer mosquitoes.
A quick check on EEE says:
It's a Togavirus/Togaviridae, which means it's quite distant from other more common mosquito viruses such as the Flaviviridae which includes Dengue, West Nile, Yellow Fever [hence the name Flavi = yellow in Latin], Japanese Encephalitis, and others.
It is transmitted by Culiseta mosquitoes which transmit the virus between various bird hosts that are then fed upon by other mosquitoes such as Aedes [known for carryiny Dengue], Coquillettidia, and Culex [known for carrying West Nile] which can transfer EEE to mammals.
Some quick searches suggest Culiseta mosquitoes are active in the evening however this might not be the case for all of them and regardless even if it is the presence of other genera/species in the mix means it doesn't matter because if they are active outwith the times being suggested for the curfew then it won't fucking matter!
It was first recognised in Massachusetts in 1831 when 75 horses died.
Florida gets 1 to 2 cases in humans a year with over 60 equine cases.
This can rise to over 200 when conditions favour the virus.
So it's been going on for at least 200 years, because it will have been around before the first reports just nobody realised or cared, and never caused anything more than a few hundred horse deaths, which yes would be financially significant to those affected and moreso 200 years ago but not to the point it should shut down an entire city in 2024.
Also,
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even if it was as bad as they're making it out to be, there's plenty of natural and (if you really wanna go that route) chemical repellents to keep skeeters at bay...
as an example, my family uses (real) vanilla extract. seems to work pretty well.