Boing Boing has a picture of a “Disney-logoed DDT-impregnated wallpaper for the kids’ room” c. 1947.
No. words.
Enjoy.
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How many weeks until some buck-eejit releases a children’s wallpaper impregnated with pyrethroids?
Never mind, they already have.
It just isn’t being marketed at us, yet.
Yeah? I haven’t seen anything, but some of these other products where the same principle has been attempted, blankets if I recall, are much the same.
No — it was premature. There’s a permethrin-based liquid you can “paint” over your child’s walls… (I hesitate to post the link for fear of encouraging people…) but I have not seen any wallpaper.
New versions of the blankets and mattress pads are still appearing.