This is a critical issue that could throw the whole economy into a recession. Fixing this and the recent prevalence of foreign, disease carrying mosquitos are the two biggest policy issues, that if fixed will cause a world of good.
This is a weird idea. Are you arguing that native mosquitos carry fewer diseases?
Also... I can agree that health care is #1, but mosquitos are not number 2... more like number 900 or so. The amount of disease caused by them is tiny compared to e.g. smoking or obesity.
Of course all of this can be debated, and perhaps it's not the 2nd most important, but it's much more important to me and all my friends than most policies.
Native mosquitos on the west coast (Culex) do not carry west nile or zika.
The new Aedes species does and is extremely hard to control. https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-aedes-m...
Further, it caused everyone I know in the Los Angeles area to stay inside during this last summer. My kids and friends kids stayed inside all summer. It was like night and day compared to every other year.
Fear of Zika has spread to pregnant mothers around my neighborhood. People are literally choosing not to get pregnant because of the fear of this new mosquito in the area.
The amount of fear caused by these new mosquitos has been extreme. They are very hard to control, I think this new invasive species can only be eradicate with government intervention. There are no cost effective trapping solutions.
Nets and Deet aren't 100 percent effective and is not something we should settle for being the new normal when government intervention is possible.
The sooner it's dealt with the more realistic it can be fixed.
I would literally vote for any local politician if this were a primary policy issue for them.
https://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/xl/netsmen-wearable-mosqui...