http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2009/04/13/nyc-doh/ A bed bug policy advocacy group Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:37:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2009/04/13/nyc-doh/comment-page-1/#comment-35494 Bed bugs make the home page of the NYC Department of Health — New York vs Bed Bugs Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:31:51 +0000 http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/?p=2379#comment-35494 [...] this is such important progress. You have no idea. Or maybe you do, and so I hope you will appreciate what this [...] [...] this is such important progress. You have no idea. Or maybe you do, and so I hope you will appreciate what this [...]

]]> http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2009/04/13/nyc-doh/comment-page-1/#comment-6631 The great bed bug story of New York City — New York vs Bed Bugs Sun, 24 May 2009 00:41:25 +0000 http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/?p=2379#comment-6631 [...] Council Member Brewer’s point, that bed bugs finally came to affect everyone in New York City, has that terrible force of an uncomfortable truth and suggests something yet more distressing, that the inexorable spread of bed bugs was in fact our only hope, the equivalent of a slow Bill Gates-like release of insects in our city. I’m not sure to what extent this dynamic will hold. I think perhaps there is a limited window before the impact of bed bugs on people with resources ceases to be the life-altering experience that it still is. The saving grace of this moment is that no one can easily eradicate this problem. The challenge will be to ensure that any solutions that are developed are widely distributed and leave no one behind. But there are opportunities here as well, opportunities to defeat the stigma, to revisit and find the missing pieces in the history of bed bugs, and to gain new understanding of public health approaches to urban pest outbreaks. (It helps tremendously that the NYC Health Department is now on the side of the good guys.) [...] [...] Council Member Brewer’s point, that bed bugs finally came to affect everyone in New York City, has that terrible force of an uncomfortable truth and suggests something yet more distressing, that the inexorable spread of bed bugs was in fact our only hope, the equivalent of a slow Bill Gates-like release of insects in our city. I’m not sure to what extent this dynamic will hold. I think perhaps there is a limited window before the impact of bed bugs on people with resources ceases to be the life-altering experience that it still is. The saving grace of this moment is that no one can easily eradicate this problem. The challenge will be to ensure that any solutions that are developed are widely distributed and leave no one behind. But there are opportunities here as well, opportunities to defeat the stigma, to revisit and find the missing pieces in the history of bed bugs, and to gain new understanding of public health approaches to urban pest outbreaks. (It helps tremendously that the NYC Health Department is now on the side of the good guys.) [...]

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