Did the Pentagon weaponize ticks?

@shavixmir said
Those links tell you there were ticks in Michigan 30 years and 20 years and 10 years ago.

Seriously. Can you actually read?

No, they don't. Stop lying.
I live in Michigan you moron.

@Metal-Brain said
No, they don't. Stop lying.
I live in Michigan you moron.

From the first link. The very first paragraph:

Lyme disease, caused by blacklegged (deer) ticks (Ixodes scapularis), is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. At one time, blacklegged ticks were rare in Michigan, but their abundance and range has expanded over the past 30 years.

@shavixmir said
From the first link. The very first paragraph:

Lyme disease, caused by blacklegged (deer) ticks (Ixodes scapularis), is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. At one time, blacklegged ticks were rare in Michigan, but their abundance and range has expanded over the past 30 years.

Expanded where? Ticks were not in northern lower MI 30 years ago.
Why do you think you know more than a Michigander? That is like me lecturing you about Europe. Stop your hubris.

@Metal-Brain said
Expanded where? Ticks were not in northern lower MI 30 years ago.
Why do you think you know more than a Michigander? That is like me lecturing you about Europe. Stop your hubris.

Fvck off moron.
It literally claims you are wrong.

@shavixmir said
Fvck off moron.
It literally claims you are wrong.

No, it does not. Post a relevant quote and prove it.

@Metal-Brain said
No, it does not. Post a relevant quote and prove it.

It is a relevant fvcking quote, you moron.

@shavixmir said
It is a relevant fvcking quote, you moron.

Post a relevant quote and prove it.

@shavixmir said
BS Metalbrain.

Of course there were bloody ticks.
You think they just popped off a starship? The CIA introduced them to Michigan to…uh… start red discs on people’s ankles?

Don’t be so paranoid.
We now have hornets where I live. Didn’t have them 10 years ago… and it wasn’t the bloody AIVD that brought them here.

So, even if you were correct about there being no ticks (you are not, you are definately wrong), it still wouldn’t be a CIA plot…

I remember visiting Minnesota sometime around 1988 with my grandfather to visit some of his relatives. There were ticks. Lots of them. And Minnesota is in the Great Lakes region same as Michigan.

Because of climate change the winters are not quite as harsh as they used to be in that area. This is the most likely reason why ticks are proliferating. There may be other factors, again due to climate change, such as declining populations of birds and insects that preyed on ticks.

@Soothfast said
I remember visiting Minnesota sometime around 1988 with my grandfather to visit some of his relatives. There were ticks. Lots of them. And Minnesota is in the Great Lakes region same as Michigan.

Because of climate change the winters are not quite as harsh as they used to be in that area. This is the most likely reason why ticks are proliferating. There may be other ...[text shortened]... gain due to climate change, such as declining populations of birds and insects that preyed on ticks.

Metalbrain seems to be proof that livng in one’s mother’s basement with a tinfoil hat on, doesn’t make one exceptionally aware of reality.