Topic: Severe Risk Of Tick Infections In Tri-State Area Issued!
Bartenderbonnie
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The Fordham Tick Index is an estimate of the risk of being bitten by a nymphal or adult deer tick in the tri-state area, encompassing southern New York, Connecticut, and northern New Jersey. This index measures risk relative to other times of year.
For the week ending June 20, 2025, the risk of getting a tick bite is 10 out of 10 on the risk assessment map!
Yet our county and state Heath Departments are doing nothing to stop the spread of these deadly and disabling infections, nothing approved for free NEW and improved diagnostic testing, nothing being built for state-of-the-art Tick Born Infections treatment centers and nothing NEW in approved medications!
And still no insurance coverage, treatments and LLMDs are out of pocket!
Call your State Representatives and Senators if you have the time đź’š
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Then counter Health Department sloth. Just wrote to Lyme Away Lodge in Gilman, Wisconsin and proposed an annual memorial day for William D. Geiser which should include Flagging/Dragging for ticks. A forthcoming F/D trek is proposed for Bayfield County before summer's end. Any interested in attending should contact badger2. Search goal is to find Lyme ticks also infected with Powassan. There has been one Powassan Lyme-tick death in Wisconsin in 2025.
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Bartenderbonnie
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My local county Health Department’s last tick drag was in 2016. It revealed 80% of ticks collected were detected to being infected with Borrelia Lyme.
I call a few times every year for the lastest statistics but they refuse to do their job! I am beyond frustrated but continue to hold them accountable. They all know my name and hate taking my calls.
Posts: 3217 | From Florida | Registered: Nov 2016
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Wow, amazingly slothful as well as arrogant. One way to counter this state-agent pathology is to collect ticks (in defense of yourself) and have an independent lab examine them. Only the collector(s) will know the locations and dates when the testing results come back. State-sponsored violence will thus be completely bypassed and only the collectors will have the information. If US state health departments want to continue Chinese-communist-style esoteric virology and dairy farming against US citizens, they should get a taste of their own medicine.
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Several caveats occur: 1) independent labs may have the responsibility to report its findings to the State, as in the case of Powassan,etc. and 2. if the collector(s) themselves had the means of producing results, they too, could be responsible to report, as well as even needing a special license to test. The pathologies of state laws should be scrutinized (the un-law within law), because there's a capitalist paradox here: the capitalist always already owns the means of production, though the citizen-prisoner remains susceptible to something they can't prove is trying to infect them.
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Bartenderbonnie
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Wow Badger2
Very insightful post., made sure to read it twice to fully understand.
I”ll make it simple concerning my county.
I live in a BIG tourist area. Warning signs about TICKS posted every 100 feet, in all the area’s State and Town parks. This took 10 years of Lyme advocacy to happen.
Bottom line: Don’t disrupt the tourism MONEY!
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wow bartender bonnie that is amazing that you keep calling, I would like to do more work in the legalisation area regarding Lyme disease. I need to learn more first
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that is so true about the tourism, we have a friend in Vancouver who works in tourism, they were advised not to write about Lyme disease because it could affect tourism. this was back in 2015
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