As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]
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Malaria. Encephalitis. It's going to be brutal.
Cruel and unusual.
Death is freedom according to the NAZI's and the Mad King who runs this country..
Great. Now there will be a West Nile Virus outbreak.
As a physician 1 of my MANY concerns abt this facility is it harms detainees AND it potentially escalates mosquito borne illnesses! Due to climate & international travel, FL is a prime GROUND ZERO location for deadly mosquito borne illnesses to explode into epidemics AND endemicity. It’s STUPUDITY.
Read this thread!
Off the top of my layperson's head I have concerns wrt West Nile, Zika, and Malaria, are there others I should also be keeping in mind?
Also Dengue Fever, Chikungunya, Yellow Fever & arboviruses like Eastern Equine Encephalitis & St. Louis Encephalitis, plus new to FL is Oropouche virus spread by mosquitoes & biting midges. Every bite increases the potential for spread which increases risk to FL detainees AND to FL residents. 1/
There’s bacterial & amoebic insect borne diseases such as Lyme disease & others from ticks; sand flies can transmit leishmaniasis; fleas can transmit murine typhus & plague; Chagas’ disease & armadillos can carry leprosy. I’d like to think the State is taking strong measures to reduce risks, BUT…?!
Ticks = lyme, TBE, babesia and 15 more illnesses!
Yes! Ticks can carry bacterial, viral and amoebic diseases.
Ticks are the literal worst. Last year I saw a case of tick paralysis in person. It was terrifying (the dog -not one of mine- fully recovered)
Yikes! Ticks & their diseases also seem to be spreading… I had a patient who developed alpha gal syndrome (an allergic type reaction—NOT a contagious disease) after a tick bite & even though it is not a “vector borne disease”, it has been life altering for her. We call our dog the Tick Taxi...🤦🏼♀️
I know two people with alpha gal, and I NEVER want it.
I honestly think I was more afraid than the owner was, because I knew how far it could progress and that none of our local facilities are equipped for prolonged respiratory support. The full recovery was incredible to witness though, truly modern medicine performs miracles.
Now combine that with RFK`s fight against vaccines.... All of this will end so, so bad.
They're all MAGAts who are literally incapable of connecting dots... like small children ARE capable of doing.
I think Trump & the GOP would just love to see another out-of-control pandemic to sweep the nation.
Or they’re so obsessed with their insane ideology they’ve lost (or never had) the capacity for critical thinking & rational consideration of their actions…
Such a good point. Allow a Zika reservoir to devop in the camp and wait for an east wind to blow the skeeters into pool cages of rich white Trump fans in Naples. Morons.
I reckon Farage wants to leave the ECHR to deport any critic in the UK to the US camps, run by firms he'll have shares in.
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The most likely bad diseases that will appear in the camps are yellow fever and malaria which could spread to other parts of Florida because they are creating a breeding ground for infected mosquitoes. People will die.
Well,, ok. A bunch of people die then I guess voting and vetting and not being in a stupid motherfucking cult will matter huh??
I hate this regime and the inhumane conditions it has imposed on people!
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Don’t forget the new player on the team, Zika.
Pro lifers targeting for all those pregnant immigrants.
not to mention covid.
Don’t forget west Nile
Add in dengue, chikungunya, West Nile and more. And the more it spreads the more it will spread everywhere. Check out this reference from Florida DOH: www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and...
Florida will be a hellhole…even Mar-a-Lago. That shit doesn’t stay in man-made borders. $300m I security won’t keep mosquito-borne illnesses away.
Chikungunya is one of the long term consequences diseases. I've known two people who had it. One had eye complications that required surgery and the other had persistent joint pain and possibly heart problems.
Agreed. It’s only a question of when.
The whole thing is 🤮.
WHERE ARE THE REAL CHRISTIAN CLERGY ??? NOT the NAZI MAGA goon "evangelical-christian PRETENDERS" who ENABLE the 'trumpy dumpy NAZI REGIME' . . . GET OFF YOUR LOUNGE CHAIRS & SPEAK UP & OUT !!!
The Pope can make significant changes also.
WHERE ARE THE HUGE CROWDS TO PROTECT CITIZENS AGAINST ICE? WHERE ARE THE MEDIA? WHERE ARE THE CROWDS AGAINST THE USA TORTURE CAMPS?
How convenient that there is no CDC to warn us when the inevitable outbreaks are on the move.
Mosquito borne diseases were the first think I thought of when I heard “tents in the Everglades."
*thing dammit
don't forget people were getting leprosy in that area too, beside it's carried by armadillos which are everywhere. stagnant water at this time of year also has a soup of amoebas and flesh eating bacteria too, people die from that every year here
Those poor people..................... 😢
Thank you for calling it by the correct name. Everglades Interment Camp
Or Dachau.
Donnie's Dachau. Let's be real.
Shameful!
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The invasive Burmese python has disrupted local mammal populations, altering mosquito host use and potentially increasing the transmission of zoonotic diseases. This ecological shift may enhance the risk of mosquito-borne diseases becoming more prevalent or virulent within the camp setting.
They will shift corpses out by night. Start watching for mass graves.
Thanks for this reference
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One thing to keep in mind is that building in the Everglades was a deliberate choice. The administration wanted a punitive, dangerous camp. The shoddy, temporary facilities (at far above permanent-facility per-bed costs) exacerbate the conditions. Mosquitoes apparently have free rein. [2/17]
well, with all the kickbacks going to the fascist overlords it is no wonder the per-bed cost is exorbitant. that may well be the real reason for rounding up "illegals" another grift
“Punitive”. I have only one question: are all detained people convicted?
No.
Another thing to know is that mosquitoes are brutal in Florida. The state has a long history of lethal illnesses spread by mosquitoes. No one in government is unaware of the constant battle and treatments that have worked to keep mosquitoes at bay in an incredibly inhospitable climate. [3/17]
I can attest to this the mosquitoes are brutal and they have a host of other bugs like the flying cockroaches they call palmetto bugs not to mention the snakes and Gators and other reptiles that live in the Everglades
no-see-ums are the worst, some tiny biting gnat that comes out at dusk you can barely or not see at all, it drives you crazy. palmetto bugs eat other bugs, they are probably doing them a favor
A very hospitable climate for mosquitoes — hot and wet, plenty os standing water.
Mosquitoes have likewise long had a starring role in concentration camps around the world, starting with the first reconcentrados in Cuba in the 1890s. Forcing families out of the countryside and behind barbed wire was *meant* to punish civilians by depriving them of food and shelter. [4/17]
With reconcentrados surrounded by standing water in overcrowded and unsanitary settings, mosquito-borne malaria became a leading cause of death. Encephalitis deaths were also common. More than 100,000 civilians died in squalid conditions in these camps, from hunger and disease. [5/17]
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That was quite the series. Is there a second season? There should be.
cruel and unusual punishment?
In the Philippines soon afterward, the U.S. set up its first overseas concentration camps. Mosquito-borne malaria surged among detainees. As one soldier wrote: "Now this little spot of black sogginess is a reconcentrado pen, with a dead-line outside, beyond which everything living is shot..." [6/17]
Surprising no mention of Japanese POW camps in WW2?
"Upon arrival I found 30 cases of small-pox and average fresh ones of five a day, which practically have to be turned out to die. At nightfall clouds of huge vampire bats softly swirl out on their orgies over the dead. Mosquitoes work in relays, and keep up their pestering, day and night." [7/17]
I know this is tangential, but can I pls point out that (1) bats do not occur in Cuba (though a now extinct species did during the Quaternary), (2) vampire bats do not scavenge on or take blood meals from dead animals and (3) this is an inadvertent example of the long history of vilification of 🦇s.
Yeah, my first thought was that the bats were out hunting the mosquitos, but a visitor from more temperate areas might have a visceral reaction to clouds of bats pursuing clouds of mosquitos.
Plus I don’t know about 🦇s hunting in clouds. The main time they form dense groups is when they are emerging from and (less so) returning to their roosts. And temperate zone 🦇s form the densest groupings of mammals on 🌍. 🦇s are 😎 !
It's possible some degree of unknowing negligence with specific regard to mosquitoes reigned when Spain imposed reconcentración on Cuba, as scientists were just establishing a direct link between mosquitoes and malaria in those years. But in the 1920s, the USSR would weaponize the insect. [8/17]
Both Emma Goldman and Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote about the mosquito torture of the early Gulag, in which people were forced to stay outside naked, to allow mosquitoes to feed on them unimpeded. Here's Goldman denouncing the Bolsheviks in 1925. [9/17]
Jesus fuckin Christ, man. Humans are EVIL. And now, it's repeat on steroids. I don't want to pay for this.
Mosquitoes as deliberate torture caught on elsewhere. In Cuba when UMAP camps were imposed under Castro, "Jehovah Witnesses were subject to all manner of cruel treatment: beaten; deprived of food, water... tied up naked outside and left for the mosquitoes and sun." [10/17]
I call it Genocide by Mother Nature for plausible deniability. The fkg monsters are euphoric about torturing the people who provide their food. All of them are psychopaths.👹
Not a concentration camp, but 1715 to 1733 the survivors of Spains Treasure Fleet shipwrecks would bury the children up to their necks in the sand at dusk so they would be able to sleep the mosquitoes were that bad. This is by the ocean, not a swamp.
DeSantis is has defended torture.
In Chinese concentration camps, mosquitoes were also used to administer punishments that would not violate official rules against assaulting camp prisoners. There are several examples, but here's part of the testimony Liu Xinhu gave before Congress in 1995. [11/17]
Its torture. Same as waterboarding. Inhumane and barbaric.
I wish I had any faith that these monsters would face any kind of consequences for their actions
Guess Stephen Miller keeps up on the Techniques of Torture literature Putin, Orban and Bukele provide…
IIRC mosquitoes tormented Dostoevsky in the 1840s prison camps too
My father mentioned this. Siberian mosquitos were apparently huge and feared.
This quote is from a book about a camp that was in the White Sea.
>> A snippet from the NYT, which reads, "In Kholmogory, prisoners are subjected to the "mosquito torture": that is, the victim is stripped naked and, at a signal from the gang, placed in the yard, where swarms of mosquitos immediately attack him. << IIRC, a buried concept, head free, also existed?
Malaria: brought to the New World with enslaved Africans, it quickly became such a huge killer of white colonists that they had to constantly ship in fresh ones
Who undoubtedly knew many things due to similar inhumanity practiced on plantations throughout the Caribbean and West Indies.
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Is it wrong to hope the employees get a good case of Malaria, West Nile, or some other mosquito borne disease? They chose to be there. They chose the cruelty. What's fair is fair🤷♀️
That area is a hellhole.
Is this true even in the Everglades?
Americas Concentration Camp.
America's *newest* concentration camp. Not its first.
dengue fever
This Florida internment center (Let's ditch the cutesy name "Alligator Alcatraz") captures what's destructive about Trump's agenda: brutal treatment of human beings; denial of civil rights; degradation of the environment; violation of treaties with the indigenous peoples: www.ehn.org/florida-trib...
And there will be no efforts to evacuate them during hurricanes. This is absolutely a choice.
Also, wasn’t the governor a supervisor of torture at Guantanamo? so he was completely on board with an internment camp in his state.
yes...we still don't know the whole story on that I read today that desantis used money that was supposed to be used for weather emergencies for this prison....
The Trump team are racists and sadists, and when a person is a sadistic racist, the worst qualities humans have will be expressed. It’s outrageous torture and human rights abuse, and it stains my country.
I worked in a large hospital in an affluent Florida city with an aggressive mosquito suppression program. Still saw all kinds of tropical and semitropical mosquito borne diseases every summer.
The administration deserves to end up there
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I hope they bring disease back to the families of the guards and that communities all suffer from the plague that they create.
Unfortunately a lot of innocent people are going to die also
I know this too. I’m so angry. 🥺
That was my first thought, but I'm sure they're all lathered up in deet.
Miller is responsible for all of it.
😭😭😭 these are human beings for Pete's sake. This is sheer wickedness.
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Shameful. Evil. The US has a long history of brutality against the poor and the weak. It is not the good guy.
Yellow fever, then spreading throughout South Florida.
When america sent people into Panama to build.the canal, white people, had mosquito netting, and the bipoc (who was also segregated) did not
Never seen Cool Hand Luke???
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A brilliant thread, I can't thank you enough for the information.
We had play high school football games in Central Friday during day light hours instead of evenings because of encephalitis carrying mosquitoes in the early 90
It's one thing to enarcerste people, its entirely another to torture them especially when they haven't been accused of anything and are not being given due process.
I'm sure that was the plan all along. It is easier to dispose of a corpse. West Nile virus will surely aid in the escalation of disposing of those pesky immigrants. Awkward to have bodies lying about. GOOD GOD.
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The swamp, it’s always about the swamp with these guys but I don’t think they’re draining it…
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Sigh. Republican voters, donors, politicians and Trump are using any means necessary to kill us. If you think a good chunk of us aren't going to end up in similar camps wake the fuck up!!!!!!! No one is safe from Fascism!
That's right. 😡
Wait for cholera to start because of sanitation. Mosquito borne disease is going to waste these poor people to nothing, along with proliferating dengue fever & other diseases into the community surrounding the detention camp. The guards are getting bit to & going home. So much for the citizens
The guards will contract the contagious diseases themselves. They don’t realize they’re absolutely as disposable as the prisoners to the people that pay them.
Exactly! How long before they find out that mosquitos and cholera do not discriminate between immigrants and guards and decide that even $65 or more an hour is not worth their lives... who will guard the immigrants?
Truth right there...
My heart hurts for this. My soul yearns for #justice
Using mosquitoes as a means of torture and genocide is a plan of calculated cruelty by the psychotic MAGAT extermination crew of Noem, Homan, and Miller, assisted by DeathSantis.
I lived in a major metropolitan area and contracted West Nile Virus from a mosquito bite. Two week coma, a nursing home and many months of lack of mobility followed. That was with the best of medical care. Sweltering heat, confinement, lack of food and water is not all they have to worry about.
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Lots of mosquito borne diseases in FL
Thank you for this, Andrea.
Make Yellow Fever Great Again
No one to work the crops or meat packing factories. Food about to become outrageously expensive all to torture the people who worked these jobs. Diseases will run wild. This administration is so far beyond stupid.
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I suspect this is the biggest torment of the camps. My family visited the Everglades years ago, and my mom, having missed a spot on the back of her legs when applying mosquito repellent, was bitten by dozens of mosquitoes within a few minutes.
ugh
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I earnestly hope (against all hope) that all Americans will read this series of posts from Andrea Pitzer, an expert on concentration camps. Yes, we have concentration camps. In the US. Now. Many of our compatriots approve. It is no longer a question of whether it could happen here.
Further scandals around the sloppy and rushed construction and use of the Everglades detention camp — Florida officials sent a teenager there! Meanwhile, last night the @aclu.org and partners had to file a lawsuit just to ensure that people detained there can talk to their lawyers. #FuckTrump
Thank God for the @aclu.org! If anyone can spare a donation, I do recommend. Their website makes it super easy! They have certainly had their work cut out for them under this regime!
Thank you for sharing. Something has to done about this blatant cruelty.
LIBERATE THE CAMP it's what our grandfathers did
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We are a very sick nation right now.
Armed and not using it properly.
The mosquito is the world’s deadliest animal. Spreading diseases like malaria, dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya, and lymphatic filariasis, the mosquito kills more people than any other creature in the world. www.cdc.gov/global-healt...
"The greatest predator in the world."
thanks for the invaluable thread. it's such a worldwide method of cruelty. in the camp where Dutch held communists in Papua (Digoel) mosquitoes and malaria were also everywhere. this guy I.F.M. Salim contracted malaria there & later wrote his memoir in the Netherlands because no one believed him.
Salim was interned there till WWII and spent a lot of the 1930s on mosquito eradication duty. his health was ruined & he had to work till the 80s in the Indonesian embassy in the Hague trying in vain to get the Dutch govt to pay compensation for what we he went through.
#Devil’sIsland
Imagine that the US had an actual functional media that did not act as uncritical stenographers and publicists for the Trump Administration.
It's called public broadcasting and they are trying to defund it and label it liberal bias leftist media. It is fact based journalism and Republicans hate facts and truth because it shines a light on their fraud and corruption.
the biggest myth is that there ever was a liberal media, they just used to call bullshit on anyone that needed it, so by not kissing republican's asses they called them biased. bunch of fucking nazi clowns and nothing but for my entire life, i don't understand non wealthy ever voting for them
Part of the problem is that most US history is mythology.
Exactly. The GOP depends on the corporate media to promote the GOP narrative, and any questioning is seen by conservatives as prima facie evidence of liberal bias.
foreign journalists should have contacts that are just locals from around these places. the people of Collier county had no idea what they were doing there, they asked questions and were stonewalled. the county had oversight and was not let known what they were doing. local tribes are pissed
And a Congress that actually limited the executive branch and held them to account. And a Supreme Court that did their job. We might have a functional democratic-republic
The GOP has been accusing the media of bias since 1968. And conservatives have been building an alternative media platform on radio and television, and now on social media.
So true. I forgot to add a unbiased free to speak the truth press is also missing these days.
I am old enough to remember that time. 🤣
You must be at least 10 years old then. 😄
Also my IQ.
I Q westion IQ, as a poor choice of ability. Missed her Drumpf is proven that low IQ can still make money and things to happen at the same time. Have fun. 😊
Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley; broadcasters of the US news groups I felt were most honest, at that time. My dad and I watched boxing at 10:30 pm after the news. Brylcream, Schick and Gillette were advertisers for the fights. My mother and I would then watch "Dark Shadows". 😊 IM older than 10.
This is crimes against humanity being perpetrated by truly soulless people.
Straight-up torture.
Congressional Dems need to launch a no-knock systemwide ICE detention audit during recess. Multiple members at each site, wearing body cameras, with photo drones, demand access, census, interviews. Livestream everything. Blitz the news and run ads in all red districts. Hit them before the buildup.
Visitors will be exposed to any illnesses that are present. I hope they can protect themselves in their efforts to shed light on the horrors.
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Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) recently said she and four other members of Congress were able to inspect an ICE facility outside of Los Angeles last week and found conditions “horrifying.”
Congressional Dems have been trying to inspect ICE facilities, have not been allowed in. Some have been handcuffed.
That's why it should happen en masse, across the system, at once, D-Day style. Don't let the Trump regime isolate small groups of members. Make them answer to the whole caucus at once. Have members in DC pressing leadership. Have others in TV studios messaging.
With security. Lots and lots of personal security.
I pray for the release of all immigrants
I don’t see how they expect to contain these diseases to just the camps. It’s disgusting the lack of care for their fellow man and I blame every Republican politician who is enabling this
They don’t. They don’t care.
I have no idea how this isn't cruel and unusual punishment.
They don’t care about any part of the Constitution. Why would they care about this. Cruel and unusual punishment is EXACTLY the point with these fascists because it instills the fear they need to stay in power!
That's my point but in different words?
A very old BBC article from 2016. Measured by the number of people killed, mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on this planet. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-3...
Floridians know the impact of mosquitos. It's the only place I've lived where there were elected officials to a Mosquito Control Board. It's deliberate, hateful, and evil.
They'll have to stand up screwfly boards soon. www.kcur.org/news/2025-05...
Like covering captives with honey and staking them out in the desert for the ants!
They are making a public health disaster on purpose, to punish brown people, for their own entertainment Not a sign of a healthy society
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"I won't be comprehensive" 1st of 17. I think you're cute. OK. I'll bite!
This is intentional, deliberate torture of people whose sole crime was seeking a better life in the United States while being brown.
*while being brown* is the key. MAGA, of course, was always code for MAWA
Important thread. Concentration camp with torture. Demonize dehumanized dark skinned immigrants. Then throw them into concentration camp w high heat, high heat. Wet Bulb deaths. Cheap unsanitary & mosquito infested so disease & constant irritation. Hell hole for innocence. Sadists get off on this
That is pure torture 😳
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It’s cruel and inhumane. I can understand it having camped in The Olympics as a kid and also just from living in the Pacific NW. They are awful.
Thank you for this thread. Everglades mosquitoes are brutal all year long, and now is high season.
Lotta trouble fighting for democracy. Your weekend plans could be foiled, and people who were attacked on J6 just don’t sense the urgency and I suspect won’t until they leave office. Cream don’t float in politics. It disperses.
Cruel and unusual punishment of indeterminate length for what amounts to an alleged immigration infraction levied w/o Due Process of trial by jury
And many may not realize it, but the Centers for Disease Control's origin was to eliminate malaria in the Southeastern U.S. Really!
People also don’t realize the size of the geographic area in which malaria-carrying mosquitoes live: what gets established in Florida 1 year could end up in Maine the next.
I tried to look up death toll from malaria in 1930s USA, but couldn't find it. Must've been a pretty serious problem, tho, if Congress legislated and funded an entire department dedicated to eradicating it in America!
1/3 I found a map: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/suppl/10...
2/3 the parent article: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
3/3 & Figure 1 in there’s a line graph plotting mortality.
Thank you! Was surprised to see Arkansas so hard-hit! I didn't realize they were swampy (also very surprised to see S GA not high in mortality given the swampy south: may have been a population density thing, tho, as more farming in middle and north GA than in the Okefenokee.)
Oh and for the rendition-ed people stuck in the Denali Gap Panama I can't even imagine.
Deep Dismal Swamp Canal. Lovely place today. Slave labor/ owned by George Washington (part) the people dying from mosq born diseases who built it-it was very ugly. Sanitized history *by the NC/VA Chamber of Commerces* on wikipedia
What 8th Amendment? Cruelty on steroids. trump, Miller, Homan and DeSantis torturing people, some immigrants, most following imm. laws, some ‘criminals’ whose most serious offense is a traffic ticket, in cases years earlier, some citizens and, mostly, not hardened criminals. Speaking of criminal…
I like everyone know that mosquitoes are bad news, but not until I read this book did I realize how deadly they really are and how much they’ve influenced human history.
Oh it would be complete naivety or stupidity to think some sadistic bastards as all of these MAGA NAZIS are would not have discussed the mosquitos with a snickering laughter of joy just after discussing the glorified chomping of an inmate within the jaws of an Alligators mouth as a win!
Survivors of the 1715 fleet wrecks on the Treasure Coast of Florida had to bury themselves in the sand to get any relief from the swarms of mosquitoes - documented fact.
Some more anecdotes in Russian context: - Gulag prisoners would climb into tall trees to pee. They could protect any other piece of skin, but not that one. If they didn't, they would die from infections (malnutrition being a great accelerator for sure). #1/3
#2/3 - In a movie about a group escape from either Gulag or POW-camp (similar to 'The Long Walk Home', but not that one), they see locals walking mosquito-free, and very hesitantly approach them, to find out their secret. Solution: rubbing resin on skin. How to remove/clean: no priority I guess.
#3/3 - IIRC, the psyop method, for interrogation, was to bury the suspect, leaving only head free above ground. NB: if deprived of sleep long enough, you will also die.
#4/4 Thread, on sadists, then & now, Nazi's versus USA. bsky.app/profile/wilh...
WHERE ARE Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International,.. on these developments, Maybe I don't notice but I'd like to know.
Unfortunately, I believe that the current ( and former ) administrations do not recognise a fair few international groups or their jurisdiction, including those mentioned,along with the I.C.C. Probably just me, though. I'd like to see a few hauled up in front of a judge in The Hague.
Yes the U.S. doesn’t recognize the ICC but by them bringing charges/convictions against trump and some of the others they will not be free to travel to any country that does.
@amnesty.org
They do. Look at what Putin++++ has done to ALL NGOs!!
Mosquitoes have been one of mankinds biggest killers. They carry/transmit many severe illnesses. Some are rare some are common. The idea that another pandemic could evolve from them is probably not too far fetched. The concentration camp is a disaster waiting to happen. Not just for those in it.
Wonder if deliberate exposure to mosquitoes would qualify as a biological weapon
This is cruel & unusual, beyond inhumane, and pure evil being committed in our names. Hell awaits those who spread this kind of suffering.
But what else can we expect from a man and a party that is thrilled when emulating Hitler? Some even wish he’d “finished the job.”
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I keep having to tell people that Anne Frank didn’t die in a gas chamber
"In November 1944, Anne and Margot were deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died from typhus sometime in February or March 1945."
Murine typhus can be transmitted via fleas and although rare in Florida, there have been a couple reported cases. Fortunately, the rickettsial bacteria that cause Murine Typhus can be treated with antibiotics.
Would diagnosis—let alone treatment—happen?
A year ago I’d have said very likely it would. But now…? 1)Medical attention to detainees/ prisoners continues to deteriorate under private-for-profit management Trump’s cruel regime. 2)Cuts to funding, programs & staff dedicated to public health has been drastically reduced & replaced by ideology.
And, I would add to that the fact that I, and so many others who support strong public health programs, have no confidence in Florida’s current surgeon general — and I do not expect DeSantis to care about the detainees or to necessarily promote good public health programs in the state...
Exactly
Ty so much!
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Excellent, thorough, and horrifying thread! Thank you!
This could well constitute crimes against humanity.
I don't see why it wouldn't and there needs to be accountability!
I absolutely believe that when this administration is over, ICC will issue arrest warrants for crimes against humanity against these people.
Too bad it cannot be done now while the crimes are current rather than when they are past-tense.
I do too. They will work quickly. They’re probably already working on them,
I hope you are right. A lot depends on how long the oligarchs are in power. The longer the more difficult justice becomes the fewer there are who will act for justice.
I hope so too, but with the US… bsky.app/profile/allt...
I pray you’re right.
Me too
I doubt very much that they're unaware of the danger of mosquito borne diseases. I think it's intentional. Punitive. And what about sanitation? Did they build a sewage treatment plant there? Lack of same will breed more diseases, not to mention polluting the Everglades. Is anyone sane in charge?
Desantis contracted with mobile units for water & sanitation, porta potties also. The victims shower about every 4 days, 1 meal a day w/maggots from a co. w/2 contracts $59 million, Granny Alliance 1.9 review. FL AG put this together, my petition is to remove him & do not elect in 2026. No bids.
That is disgusting beyond words! And $59 million...
SoS Marco Rubio announced an 83% reduction of USAID funding in 3/2025. SOS now struggles to get mosquito nets. Rubio just requested nets for FL, Puerto Rico and TX. US has malaria cases. Rubio ended Malaria supplies to 53M mostly children . Up to 166K may die www.news-medical.net/news/2025060....
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