Quite interesting video from Mark Rober about bedbugs: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAOTJxYqh8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAOTJxYqh8</a>
Bedbugs have been a problem for years in Paris, but of course the government starts to think about it for the Olympics. Regular people can rot in hell for what they care
Paris subway is and has always been an horrible pathogen nest. My life in the winter changed when i stopped having to use it everyday, i basically stopped being sick.<p>Now with the record high amount of homeless in the street at the moment i'm pretty skeptical this is going to get any better.
So true. I am very very often on France and had to throw away my bed and couch in France and Germany because of those shitbugs. We tried products and professional help but they came back or where still there. Since we changed interior and take precautions when we travel they are gone.
But it’s hell.
Because I also rent apartments for holiday, that I own, and there I change the mattress regularly and everything else is leather now.<p>Many of my friend have them also. Didn’t realize it was a problem on national level but it feels like it.
Btw Germany has them also .
My grandmother dealt with bedbugs in 1950s Paris. I always thought of them as a thing of the past that couldn't possibly resurface in the present day. Clearly, I was wrong. Given that this is France, the likely solution is to commission a task force to spend five years working on a white paper that ultimately concludes more taxes are needed.
This is why I don't mind the spiders so much.<p>They do a really good job of vacuuming up the smaller insects around my home. You can tell how well they're working by the density of crap in their webs. I go out of my way to <i>not</i> harm them if possible. I used to spray for everything but I think that just makes things worse in the long run.
I encountered a bedbug-like problem and used a two-pronged approach:<p>a) ivermectin and<p>b) permethrin, which I added to laundry and sprayed on clothing and bedclothing.<p>Permethrin <i>could</i> harm pets so I keep them away from any application until clothing is dry.<p>Ivermectin kills most bedbugs, fleas <i>et al</i> and stops the young from molting, but they have to bite you first usually. Nonetheless, there's something satisfying about being the bait and knowing that each bite means another bug dies.
knowing the current french government, i would say their response is going to be:<p>1- create a green number with an automated response that tells you “you should have paid better attention”<p>2- blame immigrants<p>ps: this is not limited to paris , a friend of mine found one bug in her train near Cannes
It mentions various downsides of bedbugs but doesn't mention blood borne diseases... Isn't that how it works, if it bit a guy with hepatitis then bit you, you will probably get it?
Paris could try being less filthy. New York has the same problem. After getting bed bugs from the Sofitel, the remediating of which involved plastic bagging literally everything and nuking the place with insect killer, I refuse to stay in Manhattan anymore. I stay in Westchester or sometimes Jersey.