We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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You very briefly mention that the incompatible insect technique (IIT, i.e., the release of male mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia) has been used before, but go on to imply that this is a highly risky, experimental technology that is being used on a much larger scale than ever before in Hawaii, with its people as unwilling test subjects.
IIT has been used many times all over the world, including China, Australia, and the mainland United States (Fresno, CA, in 2018 was a particularly notable exam…
This project is an experiment. The southern house mosquito used in the Maui project is a species that has never been used before for Wolbachia IIT stand-alone field release. At 64,666 acres, the East Maui project area is the largest Wolbachia mosquito release of any kind globally to date. Peer-reviewed studies have shown Wolbachia bacteria to cause mosquitoes to become more capable of transmitting avian malaria ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar… and West Nile virus (bird and human) journals.plos.org/plosn…
Thank you for this very well-informed reply. You know far more about local Hawaiian politics than I do, so I will defer to your judgement about the makeup of Birds, Not Mosquitoes.
With regard to the proposed IIT, my understanding is that both avian malaria and the southern house mosquito are invasive species that were artificially introduced to the islands by colonists. It’s also my understanding that the only mosquitos that have been approved to be released by the EPA (and biologically the onl…
Mahalo for your response. The Application for Section 18 FIFRA Emergency Exemption for use of the lab-altered mosquitoes ("DQB Males") hawaiiunites.org/wp-con… specifies that the "DQB line of mosquitoes was developed through transfection of Wolbachia pipientis wAlbB isolated from Ae. albopictus KLP strain mosquitoes originating from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia into Culex quinquefasciatus Palmyra strain mosquitoes originating from Palmyra Atoll." These are foreign organisms.
This mosquito release plan…
Dr. Lorrin among my oldest heroes & favorites Biotech Mafia opponents! <3
