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.
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.
Their name is enough
Honestly not as bad as I thought it would look.
My apocalypse bingo card is filling up fast.
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.
This is the one that kills cattle?
yes, and infect pets and can infect people, though that’s not it’s primary target.
it’s fucking awful. and it’s easily preventable. but we simply stopped doing the hard work of prevention because of cost-cutting.
At least we have all the ivermectin?
Screwworm all out attack!
