JimmyJ Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 Walking along a narrow Soi I heard a very noisy vehicle behind me. Turning around, I saw it was painted red, had a revolving light over the cab, looked roughly similar to a songtaew, and had a few guys on the uncovered rear. I then saw it let loose a spray and at first thought CM is spraying water in the air to "combat" the dangerous air here. It then let loose some more blasts and the smell of insect repellant followed. No warning. Bathing all sitting in the open restaurants and coffee shops, pedestrians, infants in strollers, etc. Thank you, Chiang Mai. Perhaps the insect spray will get the residents before the PM 2.5 air. Well thought out, with safety paramount. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiSePuede419 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) Depends on what they were spraying. What did smell like? Patchouli? Wait. That's a Phish show I'm thinking of. Edited January 16, 2020 by SiSePuede419 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post steven100 Posted January 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) It's an insect repellent smoke mixture, smells a bit like diesel to kill off mosquito's. It's been done every year for as long as I can remember. Bangkok, CM and many other towns and villages. Edited January 16, 2020 by steven100 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Estrada Posted January 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2020 These days I have my suspicion that they cheat and there is only scent and smoke with no active ingredients to kill mosquitos. They fogged us two weeks ago and now there are many more mosquitos around our houses. Been like that for years. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiFelix Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 They come around my village a couple of times a year...smells like kerosene. I wont let them in the gate as I have fish and frog ponds. Some people actually invite them in to spray inside their houses?? The thing that surprises me is that they never spray in the khlong behind me nor any of the wet swampy areas in town where most mosquitoes gather? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Max69xl Posted January 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Estrada said: These days I have my suspicion that they cheat and there is only scent and smoke with no active ingredients to kill mosquitos. They fogged us two weeks ago and now there are many more mosquitos around our houses. Been like that for years. It works perfect where I'm staying. The condominium management puts up notes next to the elevators about date and time for the spraying. Much less cockroaches and other bugs since they started doing it on regular basis. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beggar Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 They do this sometimes in my condominium. Afterwards endless cockroaches run arround like crazy. Seams to be something that effects the nerves of indects. Harmless for humans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnkleGoooose Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 28 minutes ago, Beggar said: Harmless for humans? No, not harmless for humans. Most insecticides work by inhibiting the cholonesterase that carries messages across the synapses in your nervous system. If it kills insects, it will kill you too. Same function, it's just a question of doses and scale. Most insecticides are cumulative within the human body too. Spray too much Doom in your house and you will start feeling quite poorly quite quickly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) Come on! You don't enjoy it. And it's free As above: happens about yearly depending on mosquito/Dengue occurrence. Edited January 16, 2020 by KhunBENQ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilltom Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Used too do that in Turkey years ago.all the shops hotels etc closed their doors and windows.must av been a reason for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJ Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Max69xl said: It works perfect where I'm staying. The condominium management puts up notes next to the elevators about date and time for the spraying. That is a sane way to do it. Driving slowly down narrow sois and blasting everyone in sight, enveloping all in a poisonous mist, is not a sane way to do it. Edited January 16, 2020 by JimmyJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max69xl Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 10 minutes ago, JimmyJ said: That is a sane way to do it. Driving slowly down narrow sois and blasting everyone in sight, enveloping all in a poisonous mist, is not a sane way to do it. Not to mention when they're spraying the sugarcane fields with pesticide tanks on their backs and using the cheapest white face masks bought in the nearest pharmacy which is made for quite big particles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natway09 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 If mixed properly fogging works well. The idea is to spray around the perimeter of the property & mozzies will not fly over the barrier. Frequencey of spraying 5/7 days A good rain will make spraying again necessary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricTh Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Most Thai people have zero knowledge that mosquito spray is also poisonous to human. There is a Thai eatery in Chiang Mai called Teng Neung who even supply mosquito spray to customers while eating. Some of the chemicals would drop onto the plates of other customers. The smell was nauseating to me as I am sensitive to any poisonous chemicals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CygnusX1 Posted January 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2020 Sprayed outside of my condo block a couple of weeks ago. I’ve never had dengue fever, but from descriptions of people who have, I’d vastly prefer inhaling a tiny amount of insecticide occasionally. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 I had Dengue Fever ... cry me a river bro ... hold your breath and be grateful you don't e-v-e-r get that hellish fever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beggar Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 55 minutes ago, CygnusX1 said: Sprayed outside of my condo block a couple of weeks ago. I’ve never had dengue fever, but from descriptions of people who have, I’d vastly prefer inhaling a tiny amount of insecticide occasionally. Dengue fever has a reason and doesn't depend so much on the amount of mosquitoes. I got Dengue in the middle of Pattaya and I am very careful. This daytime mosquito just needs to be infected by an other PERSON bringing Dengue next to you. And if it takes the next blood meal at your body you might get Dengue. So if you really want to get rid of Dengue eliminate all persons carrying Dengue to your area. The mosquitoes are not really guilty ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VocalNeal Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) I used to do the beach house in Malaysia. The old ones are like a pusle jet engine that runs on kerosene as has been said mixed with insecticide. A bitch to get them started. Edited January 16, 2020 by VocalNeal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 25 minutes ago, Beggar said: Dengue fever has a reason and doesn't depend so much on the amount of mosquitoes. I got Dengue in the middle of Pattaya and I am very careful. This daytime mosquito just needs to be infected by an other PERSON bringing Dengue next to you. And if it takes the next blood meal at your body you might get Dengue. So if you really want to get rid of Dengue eliminate all persons carrying Dengue to your area. The mosquitoes are not really guilty ???? I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you have never seen the inside of a statistics textbook, know what a Venn Diagram is, or attended any lecture on Logic. Let me give you a hint ... imagine two villages ... one with no mosquitoes, and one with clouds of them. Each village is visited by a person infected with Dengue. OK, you go ahead and give that some thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beggar Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 7 minutes ago, bangkokequity said: I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you have never seen the inside of a statistics textbook, know what a Venn Diagram is, or attended any lecture on Logic. Let me give you a hint ... imagine two villages ... one with no mosquitoes, and one with clouds of them. Each village is visited by a person infected with Dengue. OK, you go ahead and give that some thought. The problem is not the mosquitoes but the infected person visiting such areas. It is the same with pretty much all of such diseases = flu, measles - whatever. People transport such diseases from one area to a not infected area very quickly. Mosquitoes don't fly long distances. They can't do this. They normally stick to the area where they have been born. Of course you can kill all mosquitoes and hope the best. But perhaps it would be more successful to eliminate the real source of the problem - put people into quarantine who are the source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 4 hours ago, Beggar said: The problem is not the mosquitoes but the infected person visiting such areas. It is the same with pretty much all of such diseases = flu, measles - whatever. People transport such diseases from one area to a not infected area very quickly. Mosquitoes don't fly long distances. They can't do this. They normally stick to the area where they have been born. Of course you can kill all mosquitoes and hope the best. But perhaps it would be more successful to eliminate the real source of the problem - put people into quarantine who are the source. OMG. What can I say? OK, i can't say, because the moderators will delete the post. Let's just say your reply is "amazing" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beggar Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 1 hour ago, bangkokequity said: OMG. What can I say? OK, i can't say, because the moderators will delete the post. Let's just say your reply is "amazing" Why should the moderators delete your post? I respect your opinion and you should respect mine. Nothing special - just different opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Beggar said: Why should the moderators delete your post? I respect your opinion and you should respect mine. Nothing special - just different opinions. OK .. listen. Your thesis is that the solution to a disease is to simply quarantine all the people who have it. Does that sound just a wee bit stupid to you? Because it does to me! Since that is IMPOSSIBLE, and the methodology of transmission is via mosquitoes, then some people (all people except you???) would see a relationship between insect control and disease transmission. I said ... if there were two villages, and each were visited by a person with Dengue ... and one village had ZERO Mosquitoes , and the other had clouds of them .. and then I left it up to you to "fill in the (obvious?) blank" ... In ... the village with Mosquitoes has a great chance of a dengue fever outbreak, and the other ... just about zero chance. And here is where you went. The problem is not the mosquitoes but the infected person visiting such areas. It is the same with pretty much all of such diseases = flu, measles - whatever. People transport such diseases from one area to a not infected area very quickly. Mosquitoes don't fly long distances. They can't do this. They normally stick to the area where they have been born. Of course you can kill all mosquitoes and hope the best. But perhaps it would be more successful to eliminate the real source of the problem - put people into quarantine who are the source. The fact I need to spell this out is literally mind boggling, but I am patting myself on the back for not using certain words to describe your intellectual capacity or ability to predict simple outcomes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill97 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 On 1/15/2020 at 4:03 PM, JimmyJ said: Well thought out, with safety paramount Yes Jimmy well thought out, you expected Thailand to be safe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beggar Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 7 hours ago, bangkokequity said: OK .. listen. Your thesis is that the solution to a disease is to simply quarantine all the people who have it. Does that sound just a wee bit stupid to you? Because it does to me! Since that is IMPOSSIBLE, and the methodology of transmission is via mosquitoes, then some people (all people except you???) would see a relationship between insect control and disease transmission. I said ... if there were two villages, and each were visited by a person with Dengue ... and one village had ZERO Mosquitoes , and the other had clouds of them .. and then I left it up to you to "fill in the (obvious?) blank" ... In ... the village with Mosquitoes has a great chance of a dengue fever outbreak, and the other ... just about zero chance. And here is where you went. The problem is not the mosquitoes but the infected person visiting such areas. It is the same with pretty much all of such diseases = flu, measles - whatever. People transport such diseases from one area to a not infected area very quickly. Mosquitoes don't fly long distances. They can't do this. They normally stick to the area where they have been born. Of course you can kill all mosquitoes and hope the best. But perhaps it would be more successful to eliminate the real source of the problem - put people into quarantine who are the source. The fact I need to spell this out is literally mind boggling, but I am patting myself on the back for not using certain words to describe your intellectual capacity or ability to predict simple outcomes. Let's take your person and a city like Pattaya. The person with Dengue goes from one area to other areas here in Pattaya and so spreads Dengue around the whole town. If he stays at home he will not be able to do this. But your idea to fight against the problem is to get rid of all mosquitoes in the whole area of Pattaya - completely impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill97 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 49 minutes ago, Beggar said: But your idea to fight against the problem is to get rid of all mosquitoes in the whole area of Pattaya - completely impossible. Yeh and getting rid of 85% of them would not reduce the problem. Good thinking, all or nothing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGThompson1 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Beggar said: Let's take your person and a city like Pattaya. The person with Dengue goes from one area to other areas here in Pattaya and so spreads Dengue around the whole town. If he stays at home he will not be able to do this. But your idea to fight against the problem is to get rid of all mosquitoes in the whole area of Pattaya - completely impossible. Dengue fever is NOT contagious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beggar Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, PGThompson1 said: Dengue fever is NOT contagious. It is. The vehicle from one person to an other are the mosquitoes. Every healthy mosquito who bites a person with Dengue will have now this virus inside his body and can transmit it to other people. This is how this virus works. Edited January 17, 2020 by Beggar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Beggar said: Let's take your person and a city like Pattaya. The person with Dengue goes from one area to other areas here in Pattaya and so spreads Dengue around the whole town. If he stays at home he will not be able to do this. But your idea to fight against the problem is to get rid of all mosquitoes in the whole area of Pattaya - completely impossible. I thought it was so obvious that quarantining a carrier of a disease was LITERALLY a "no brainer" The PROBLEM is people get Dengue and don't know it for days, and some in the outset think they just have a "flu" and soldier on. For the Love of Sweet Baby Jesus .. am I REALLY explaining this to you?????????????????????????? In that window of "transmission opportunity" ... the less carrier species of mosquitoes ... the BETTER! YES??? (Please, so my head does not explode, just say "Yes, LESS disease carriers is good" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ54 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 They come through the village twice a year. I close the house up but neighbors leave front door open and let them spray inside. Two times ago I walked across the street and took our Pom Pom. one of the sprayers was taking a break surprisingly he spoke English... Chatted a bit then he said your black dog I shot and killed it was getting into his chickens... I said fair enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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