@silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 day agoThe Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health.www.nytimes.commessage-square53arrow-up1199cross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1199external-linkThe Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself. As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health.www.nytimes.com@silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 day agomessage-square53cross-posted to: climate@slrpnk.net
minus-square@silence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilink13•1 day agoThe notch is the useful part; it lets you lift the tick off your body without squeezing it. Skillful use of good tweezers does the same. (The ones on a Swiss army knife dont really work for this)
minus-squareBoomer Humor DoomergodlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 day agoSo what you’re saying is my dad held a smoldering match against my leg while I screamed for fun?
minus-square@silence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilink4•1 day agoOr he didn’t know how to do it without that. The match-as-best-approach was conventional wisdom for a lot of people for a long time
The notch is the useful part; it lets you lift the tick off your body without squeezing it. Skillful use of good tweezers does the same. (The ones on a Swiss army knife dont really work for this)
So what you’re saying is my dad held a smoldering match against my leg while I screamed for fun?
Or he didn’t know how to do it without that. The match-as-best-approach was conventional wisdom for a lot of people for a long time