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Originally Posted by zaney
Well Scott, maybe you should take up a safer hobby like chess or stamp collecting and buy your vegetables at the store instead. Don't think for a second that getting bit by a tick = Lyme's disease. I've been an outdoor enthusiast my entire life, pulled hundreds of ticks off myself, and I don't have Lyme's disease. Instead of poisoning OUR lake, why don't you just wear a hat, long sleeves and pants, apply some bug spray around your cuffs, and check yourself often when you're working outside(or better yet, have someone else check you). Do you truly believe that YOUR health and safety is more important than the health and safety of a huge ecosystem like Winni? How about all the fish, insects and other marine life that have to ingest YOUR poison because you're afraid of getting a few bug bites? It's elitist attitudes like yours that will slowly contribute to the decline of this beautiful ecosystem.
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Stamp collecting does sound like fun. It's doesn't feed my elitist attitude and ego as much as I like, though.
I believe ones health and safety should come first. Flame away, but I'm sorry that I value my health more than a fish's. Regardless, I really don't think the sprinkling of this stuff will bring the lake to it's knees unless an overwhelming majority of people do it, which is highly unlikely.
Sorry to ruffle any feathers.
As for your hundreds of bites, 50 percent of deer ticks carry Lyme disease, among several other awful disease, in areas not all that far from here. It will eventually make it here, and those odds will catch up to everyone eventually.
Hats, pants and long sleeves do nothing to protect you from ticks. They only serve to increase the chances of the tick finding a spot in you hair where they are nearly impossible to spot until it's engorged. I prefer the complete opposite, shorts and short sleeves so that I can spot them before they find a suitable spot to feed.
I wouldn't put too much faith in bug spray...I've still watched ticks crawl across treated skin (35% deet) unless you've recently applied.