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:
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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.
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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!
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It was first recognised in Massachusetts in 1831 when 75 horses died.
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Florida gets 1 to 2 cases in humans a year with over 60 equine cases.
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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.
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we all know that for every Archer or Sisko, there's nine, ten, dozens of plodders or absolute shits
The problem with the main cast is most of them are the literal best Starfleet has, more so than the general elite nature of the organisation. Even just the captains highlight the to the extreme.
Archer is the first warp 5 captain. The flashback episode regarding Robinson shows it was an extremely competitive contest as it was so important to Starfleet and humanity as a whole.
Picard commands the flagship of the fleet. His face is basically Starfleet at that point.
Sisko is taking over a still smouldering powderkeg with Bajor immediately after the end of the Cardassian Occupation.
Kirk is considered to be a tactical genius by both Starfleet and other alien empires.
Of the main lineup Janeway ends up being the only one who isn't someone special. She's meant to be tracking down her tactical officer and gets stuck 70'000 light years away because of it. While the idea of how other captains might have faired is brought up a few times, like with Captain Ransom and the USS Equinox that was in the same situation, it was still people that weren't meant to be there so we're out of their depth a lot of the time by design.
Everyone else is still meant to be highly competent even if they end up being one of the background crew or the actual lower decks as the TNG episode did first. Those crewmen showed they weren't just brainless cogs in a machine when one of them figured out the bridge officers were setting up a secret mission instead of just testing phaser fire on a shuttle because the blast patterns were being done in a way to fake live fire damage.
Instead Lower Decks ends up with a crew that should be arrested for treason at a minimum, court martialed, and probably spaced for the safety of everyone else in Starfleet.
Wesley failed the entrance exam the first time he took it, as did Picard, then later fucked up with the flight maneuver that killed a fellow cadet and set Wesley back a year. The started him down a path that ended with him quitting Starfleet before graduating. Picard at least stuck through all the shit he went through at the academy, and that included being stabbed in the heart!
Picard didn't pass the first time, either, however he did graduate from Starfleet unlike Wesley who quit then wandered off with a creepy old man offering candy The Traveller who offered to show him the back of his van mysteries of reality.
And the other reason is why I'm happy to hear rumours Tulsi Gabbard is helping Trump with debate prep for Kamala..
If this were a WWE style event the best possible way for it to play out would be for Kamala to enter the ring first to whatever music her handlers she picked, then when Trump came out he'd not only be in a full suit which is not the attire for wrestling, but also simply stroll down to the ring, then keep strolling around it to the commentary box and sit down. Then Tulsi would show up to her own music, run down to the ring, and the world would get a Kamala vs Tulsi 2: Bitchin' Boogaloo.
Nobody in the Lower Decks crew should have made it past the academy. Starfleet is meant to be the best of the best, not an extended gap year for a group so belligerent and incompetent they shouldn't be put in charge of raking leaves in autumn let alone being stationed on an intergalactic starship that a handful of safety features from going back in time and/or destroying localised space.
People value intelligence
Also, side note. People value intelligence when it benefits them. Nobody likes being on the receiving end of an intellectual beat down but plenty enjoy being on the side that do it. See modern media and it's portrayal of "smart is sexy". It's almost always a smart character using their brain to outwit everyone else in the room while showing off to a love interest. Dr Who has done it for decades, Sherlock did it, Disney and Marvel have done it, and always with a support group in tow made up of pretty and pretty dumb characters who love to see their smart champion play wordsmith with everyone else and emerge as the biggest brain in the box. When someone else is smarter and this gets used against both the champion and his cheerleaders then suddenly smart isn't sexy any more, it's creepy, or weird, or ominous, or whatever.
tl;dr People value intelligence for selfish reasons.
If I had an axe for every time I warned "smart" people not to do certain things and they had listened to me I'd still have an axe because the retarded MD I told not to do something then did it anyway and broke the axe!
The longer answer I would give is: It depends on a lot of things such as how much smarter you might be compared to those around you, how frequent any differences may be demonstrated, and how, if at all, said differences improve over a period of time.
The short answer is: it ranges between tedious and infuriating.
And now for the sperg of text. When others can't do things that you find easy enough to be trivial it brings up questions why it's so difficult for them as well as why they can't improve, even when you already know the answer which is: everyone is different and has different capabilities.
Being able to look at a puzzle, or a mix of letters, or some other potential pattern and "just get it" is as pointed out elsewhere in the comments just a trait. It's how someone is and how they interpret and respond to stimuli. But when you then add various context to that situation it can go from solving a puzzle in seconds just because you can, to being told everyone else has spent the last 15 minutes trying to solve it and failing. Thus creating the comparison. You're not just "smart" at this point for solving the problem, you're now also "smarter" then others which leads to various issues from both sides of the comparison.
Frustration at others inability to do what you can and/or consider trivial will lead to resentment which can in turn lead to distancing and isolation. This can also come about by others feeling intimidated or put off just how much someone outshines everyone else and more so when it's clear through less effort than everyone else needs to put in. Even though it may be known it's not intentional or malicious behaviour the result is still the same, and there is very little that can be done to solve it.
If it's allowed, yes. But it's going to be so revolutionary it will either need banned or its own category made.
tl;dr this is unironically going to lead to real world Deckers from Shadowrun.
Response time is going to drop significantly with this. The thought of doing something is going to be the input command, not the current thought which then needs an appropriate neural command sent to the hands to perform various actions that provide the input, those actions as I mention in the other post being subject to fuckups and delays.
RSI, twitches, itches, outside interference, shitty controllers, keyboards, mice, WiFi, and more, all replaced with the integrity of signal interpretation, which will have to be paramount in the first place, and transmission.
It's entirely possible this results in player performance leap frogging current game challenges, too, because right now games are designed with the limits of both user and hardware limits in mind.
At best we can learn to input/type faster alongside using additional input devices but we are still limited by physical features of both the user and the devices present. A mouse and keyboard means you can do several things at once, but we still only have 2 hands. So we can move in a direction, jump, turn, interact, and do so all at once or in various combinations. But we will still be limited by the game design just how much we can input those commands.
With a 20+ year old ps2 controller a user can use the left analog stick to move in any direction along the horizontal axis. But even if a second analog stick was provided that permitted true 3D movement within an environment, air or water, we don't have the dexterity for that level of finesse. A direct neural input however would because without needing to calculate how hard a button needs pressed or how much a second analog stick needs turned a human brain can interpret spatial data and create a vector to move along. Every single game that exists right now which offers superpowered flight is going to be redundant overnight with this type of input device.
It's Batman, some of his rogues gallery would do that regardless of any money involved.
Joker: for the lols
Two Face: coin landed tails
Ra's Al Ghul: you're part of his next depopulation project
Riddler: you failed to answer a riddle, Jigsaw style from Saw
Penguin: probably one of the few that is motivated by money for moneys sake, but still psychotic enough to snap and take it out on a room
Poison Ivy: you stepped on a plant
Mr. Freeze: whether or not his latest experiment is working or not and whether you stand in the way of it or not
Kite-Man: hell, yeah.
Killer Croc: wants to eat you
King Shark: wants to eat you
Bane: probably the widest range of reasons but unlikely to ever be because of money
And the various henchmen for all of those are often enough more than happy to be violent for the sake of violence, otherwise they'd probably pick other jobs for money that didn't involve carrying enough firepower to level buildings.
Would make sense, both the delay and range of fuckups from and including decision making to hand action are all but eliminated by something like this. So on the one hand it will do wonders for anyone with dyspraxia, but on the other it ups the ante on competitive input peripherals.
There's always a solution to the problem
Tell that to Solitaire 🤬
Edit:
Not all Solitaire games are winnable, but the great majority is. On average, around 80% of every Solitaire game is winnable. FreeCell is the variant with the best odds, as around 99% of all games are winnable, for instance.
This is why I started playing Freecell instead.
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It is estimated that 99.999% of possible deals are solvable. Deal number 11982 from the Windows version of FreeCell is an example of an unsolvable FreeCell deal, the only deal among the original "Microsoft 32,000" which is unsolvable
I was angry enough with Solitaire being unwinnable at times I ended up teaching myself how to play Freecell.
Swtor came up with a good way to get around weekly lockouts and dry loot runs. All gear, all of it, weapons included were shells which contained 2-4 components that have an item its stats. Wrists and waist only had 2 components IIRC while most armour had 3 and weapons had 4 where the 4th would also alter the colour of weapon fire and lightsaber blades.
Eventually BoA shells were added so that you could freely move things between alts, the only things that remained character bound were non BoA shells that came from content of which there were still many. These actual content shells also didn't usually have their appearances added to a collections tab like WoW does with transmog. While there is a similar system it's mostly limited to unlocks done with MTX currency, so raid appearances would only be something for the character present for the kill and lot.
However what the system did mean was that if you had more than one class, be it a dupe on the same faction or mirror class on the other faction, you could then gear them with BoA shells fitted with components sourced from alts, who could in turn continue gearing those shells to send back again later. This would include Tier components.
The only limits to this were the differences in primary stat some components would have so Str gear would be fine for JKG to JKS, or even SWJ and SWM, but any other class and subclasses would be using something other that Str.
Additionally the Swtor equivalent to rings and trinkets weren't BoA so those you would still need to source but in general it meant you could use alts to take care of sourcing and improving something like 10 of your 14 or so gear slots.
And I didn't always hate rogues. Its just that once Mangle was removed, and Brez was spread to multiple classes then every raid had no reason to bring a Feral over a rogue, because a bad rogue could outpace all but the best Ferals in almost every tier.
This is why I disliked Locks and Hunters from TBC onwards while maining a mage :p both ended up as literal 1 button spammer classes and with Sunwell offering a zone wide Int buff that made ArcInt redundant mages found themselves benched for what was often dogshit players but playing braindead and OP specs.
WoW Raiding taught me a long time ago about the importance of someone willing to "step up" and be the bitch that deals with problems, because sitting around saying "not my job" just ends up in wasting everyone's time including yours. So while you might be lower on the chart and looking worse, the job is dead and the spoils remain the same. A lesson just as relevant when it comes to soaking an orb to not wipe on a boss as it does with putting in an extra chunk of work at work before it explodes into a bigger issue that you need to clean up anyway.
Me in TBC as the dedicated mage tank during t4 and t6.
For those OOTL, there were 2 raid bosses in TBC where a mage had to be the one tanking a particular mob as only mages could grab the defensive shield the mob cast on itself with Spellsteal which was needed to survive the spam of nukes said mobs would exclusively cast. In order to do this role properly a mage would have to sacrifice both raw power and general performance to stack Stamina on gear rather than actual combat stats. Most of the time mages would just grab every green/uncommon quality item they could while still maintaining enough Spell Hit for spells to actually work. Me? I knew all the ins and outs of TBC to the point I didn't have greens for my STA stacking gear, I had blues/rares and purples/epics because I had done both the homework of learning about these better versions but also put in a time grinding them because unlike greens which were random drops from every mob in the game, the rares were from rare mobs themselves. The cloth chest came from a rare dragon named Hemathion that needed flying to even get close to. The drops from Yor needed you to be able to summon the mob which was at the very end of a very long rep grind then an even longer quest after littered with RNG if the right mob would spawn from a cage and then drop the right item with the right set of stats.
Some may ask why I bothered min/maxing this much for just the two fights but the reason was by doing so I had a set of gear that gave far better survival than "just greens" and didn't diminish my combat output nearly as much. Greens would be fine for t4 but the t6 fight needed more health so those blues and purples meant a far smoother attempt than more casual raiders would have experienced.
Also of the 3 other mages we had 1 I wouldn't trust to bring back a wet umbrella when it was raining, while the other 2 were frequently busy so couldn't provide regular attendance therefore I was far more at ease just doing the job myself.
I remember watching that live and the botch was horrifying. He's lucky he didn't paralyse himself or worse. He gave interviews later that he couldn't remember the last few minutes of the match because of the self inflicted concussion.