Conservative policy cut funding to keeping these away. Conservatives should be seen not heard when it comes to any policy.
IIRC, they were being stopped at the choke point in Central America. Now that they’re past it, they’ll be almost impossible to contain even if funding were restored.
Just one of many cases where the damage being done is permanent.
It can be stopped again but god damn will it not be cheap.
The public health boomerang
RFK Jr. should keep them to himself.
It’s impressive that many of us immediately went there. He’s made a name for himself.
He’s certainly a striking character. Dude sounds like a wheelbarrow of rocks falling down a hill.
his is braineating worms. hence the raccoon fetish.
Just the peen Robert, just the peen.
RFK Jr. has immediately flown to the area to play with, and possibly eat them.
Do you think he’ll bring his grandkids, like as a snack for the screw worms?
Praise Shai Hulud!
If you haven’t seen the image of what these things can do to a deer, I’d highly advise against looking for the pic unless you have a strong stomach.
Edit: Seriously, folks. Imagine Uzumaki’s “Spiral” story in real life and how fucked up that would be.
I took that bait and can confirm you should not look up the images. I need to lay down.
Pffft wimps.
Mother of God… what even… why did I do that!!!
Right? I mean, I guess that’s pretty much where I saw 2026 going anyway. 😅
You warned me and I still did it.
Can we have covid back instead?
Their name is enough
I have seen the damage they do to cows and horses in real life and it’s nightmarish. My father got one in his arm once, this was before I was born but luckily he got it out before it did much harm.
Honestly not as bad as I thought it would look.
The article talks about cattle, but these things infest humans, too.
Oh hell Jimmy, I don’t care for that notion one bit.
But people can usually seek help, sucks for wild animals
My apocalypse bingo card is filling up fast.
Don’t worry, they’re dismantling all the monitoring agencies so these warnings will stop coming
Haven’t they already been in the US for a while now? I recall hearing about an infestation in Texas some time ago.
they used to be rampant in the southern States. a huge multinational effort pushed them back down south.
Was that something cut by doge?
iirc, they fell behind during COVID, the increased funding and facility expansions needed to actively push them back down into the chokepoint never got approved, and the trump administration would rather spend 10x more moving all the infrastructure up to the US-Mexico border than do anything that would help other countries “for free” (even though they already chip in).
More or less.
1/2 as Interesting also did a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olj8arvfYj4
I’m all for humanity waging a bio war against all human parasites that if decimated would have no biological impact.
If we ever want to gene drive these fuckers out of existence, cutting science funding was probably a bad call.
People think the sunbelt population boom was all about AC becoming widely available. Yes, AC played a huge role. Also, not having extremely painful fly larva burrow into any open wound, mucus membrane. Believe it or not, that was something of a turn off for people prior to the eradication campaign of the 50s. Time to start wearing long sleeves and layers again.
But hey, at least we saved a few million dollars by not adequately funding the facilities that kept screwworms south of the Darien Gap. It should only cost a few billion to repeat the eradication campaign this time around.
Do You Want To Know More? https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8e4617f337af41b1a083ab17deb95e2a
To anyone confused as I was, they are talking about a location in Mexico roughly 31 miles away from the USA border, not 31 miles of border length.
That sumbitch!!!
5 earthquakes in the past 7 days, a meteor OVER a volcano, pestilence…
We’re cooked.
Meh. The human race is a plague in general.
It definitely does seem to be that way.
This is the one that kills cattle?
