Used to be SoCal was a haven for those of us with a history of mosquito saliva intolerance, but seems we have the Chinese to thank again for an end to that. (Alright, globalization, climate change, whatever.) Still, for all our vaunted advances, we’re no less at their mercy: one fucker ambushed me in the car footwell this afternoon and the viral load was so overwhelming I had to stop and get out. Lucky for me I had just vacuumed the carpet so it was easy to spot and drunk on my range-exceeding blood that vengeance could be exacted, and while I’m no longer susceptible to the kind of hideous swelling I experienced until college or the kind of bubbling that might be even worse en masse, I’d like to think we’re not too far from developing dragonfly-sized drones to dogfight them.
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