jessica
hi.
i've been dealing with some pretty severe headaches for the last few weeks, and i'm kind of putting together a hypothesis. now, i think it goes without saying that the most important thing is everybody's health....
i went to a concert on the evening of monday the 4th. the first headache hit me on the afternoon of wednesday the 6th. i became aware of the bed bug concern on thursday the 7th. i was nursing one when you came down on the evening of the 8th. what i've noticed since then is that the headaches have something to do with the air quality in the basement, and that i'm going to need to air the basement out (probably tomorrow and monday). in the mean time, i have the fan running nonstop. i've tried to turn it off a few times, and the headache always comes on very strong. so, i'm pretty sure about cause and effect with something in the air in the basement.
now, who knows, right. it could be anything at all, really. but, i'm just having a hard time shaking the possibility that there may have been some spraying done in the basement when i was gone. i mean, it all adds up. while it's true that the basement is overdue for an airing out, and i could just be reacting to stale air. why did it just start to affect me a few weeks ago?
if there is something to the hypothesis, and i'm *still* reacting to the pesticide, there must have been an awful lot of pesticide sprayed down here. and, i think i ought to be concerned about long term effects, at this point, due to continued exposure.
either way, the reality is that i've had almost two weeks worth of migraines, now. i'm going to need to seek medical attention one way or the other. that's going to involve taking blood tests and other things - if i'm dealing with chemical exposure, i'm going to figure that out. so, if you can help me figure out of there was spraying down here, it's just saving me some time, really.
i've been thinking about it a long while and trying to get my head around it. how could anybody spray a unit and not tell the person?
that seems insane. so, i've been putting this email off, maybe to the detriment of my own health. but, i've clued in that there's a kind of child-like concept of punitive effects at play. i could imagine that he might have been afraid that he'd be "caught" with bed bugs, and so wanted to spray to make sure nobody found out.
and, then he couldn't tell me, of course. it sounds inconceivable. but, to a child, the possibility of not getting caught with bed bugs would outweigh everything else. or, at least that's the best i can make sense of it.
it's all horribly negligent and everything, but i'm really more concerned about my health, right now. if there was something sprayed down here, figuring out what it was will help me in determining what kind of exposure i've had, how much i've got in me, how to clear it out, etc. and, i'm going to get to the point through testing, eventually, anyways.
i trust you'd tell me, if you knew, because you're a responsible adult and everything. i'm more presenting arguments for you to throw at paul to get an honest response out of him. i really don't think i'd get one out of him, myself.
even if i can air the place out tomorrow and it works in eliminating the headaches, i think i need to know if i'm possibly reacting to something or not.
i need to be clear that i'm not exactly making any accusations. as mentioned, it could be anything. but, i can't shake the suspicion - and i'm consequently going to end up testing for it. if i can get some confirmation, it's just going to allow me to reduce exposure faster and reduce risk factors quicker.
the landlord
Jessica, I have asked repeatedly that My brother and niece catch one bug or bugs so that I could verify there are bed bugs. my niece started this scare originally with what she thought were bites on the back of her hand. That turned out to be Xema. She had recently visited her Doctor and was told she had XEMA on her hand and not bites. Up to this point they have not caught one bug to show me that Bed bugs are identified as a problem. At this point I am convinced there are no bed bugs at all. If there were bed bugs they would have multiplied and there would be evidence of many bugs and actual bites. I have not seen one bed bug to this day. I know you research things quite well and I have done my share of reading and researching! bed bugs spread and multiple quickly. I have not seen any evidence that there are bed bugs in my niece's place or any other place. ..... I was told that my niece's boyfriend, killed a bug crawling up the wall and which they determined it to be a bed bug. Still they did not keep it to identify it as a bed bug.. The other point I want to make is that the thought of bed bugs does make people panic and do not want to be associated with this problem. SO, people to panic and react without verifying. So please be empathetic to this reality.
SPRAYING. I do know that they did spray in my niece's place about a week ago which was about 1/4 to less of a spray can; my brother did the spraying, one time along the bed boards and baseboard in one room. This was isolated to their apartment only. I do not believe this product could have migrated to your apartment, since they followed the instructions to keep all their doors closed while this product settled. Please keep in mind each units ventilation system does not mix their air to the rest of the air in the building. All exhaust fans purge air outside the building. Please, also keep in mind anything is possible when door s open and close, but I would say that any migration of the product would have been minimal to the existing hallway and they did keep doors shut for the appropriate time. The other point that I must make is that I cannot stop any tenant from spraying in their apartment. I cannot even stop you from buying a can of spray and you spraying your apartment. All I can do is educate everyone to be mindful of any bug situations, think clearly of what they should or should not do and that they must contact me before they act. Additionally, I have been specific with my niece and my brother, there will be no further spraying in the building for bed bugs, since we have no proof of bed bugs. They must have my permission to spray anywhere in the common hallways and basement!!!!!. ....
jessica
yeah. and, i've done a little more research and it does turn out that the symptoms i was experiencing - aphasia (difficulty speaking) and auras - are actually common symptoms of severe migraines. the thing is they're *also* symptoms of pesticide poisoning. i mean, i initially thought i was having a stroke. there was a point where i couldn't speak. so....it's more like i wanted to rule it out.
consider this: i suppose you could imagine how a fumigation in here might have also created those symptoms. that's what i wanted to be sure hadn't happened.
i really don't have a history of migraines either, so it's not like i could say i was expecting something from a trigger. but lots of things cause migraines. it turns out the number one trigger is in fact environmental conditions. so maybe i just had a bad reaction to the stale air, after all.
i know it's a crazy thing, but thank you for determining whether there was spraying down here or not, just so i know what had happened.
in case you're curious, this describes the attack:
https://migraine.com/blog/migraine-symptoms-transient-aphasia/
it's maybe easier to see why poisoning is something that's in the distinct realm of possibility. and, so, given the circumstances...
Saturday, April 16, 2016
j reacts to sanders outperforming clinton against republicans
so, why does sanders consistently beat clinton when matched up against republicans, but at best ties her head-to-head?
well, it suggests that there are some republicans that would prefer sanders to the candidates in their own field. yet, sanders is - by anybody's admission - the most liberal person in washington. wtf?
well, that's just it. you can partition the republican party into a few different components. you've got the religious right that's socially conservative. you've got the upper crust that's concerned about low taxes. these are what people think of as republicans, and compose the bulk of the republican base. but, you've also got a more than measurable, in fact sizable, minority of right-libertarians that prefer the republican party because they see it as being less invasive on civil liberties. the language is confusing and contentious, but these people are ideological liberals.
so, it's because he's so liberal, rather than despite it. and, this is upending all the conventional wisdom of the reagan era, which clinton is so intrinsically woven into. she's spent her whole life trying to appeal to the silent majority of reagan democrats - what the spectrum delusionally calls "moderates". but, they're all dead now. and, what's coming up in their place is a really starkly libertarian electorate, attached to both parties.
if we get nothing else from sanders, take heed of the following lesson: you're going to have to be liberal and proud of it to win an election in a predominantly x/y voting reality. and, sanders may consequently be simultaneously ahead of his time and stuck in the past. unstuck in time, maybe, even.
it's as simple as that right-libertarians prefer him over cruz or trump. and, it's easy to see why, if you think about it for a second.
well, it suggests that there are some republicans that would prefer sanders to the candidates in their own field. yet, sanders is - by anybody's admission - the most liberal person in washington. wtf?
well, that's just it. you can partition the republican party into a few different components. you've got the religious right that's socially conservative. you've got the upper crust that's concerned about low taxes. these are what people think of as republicans, and compose the bulk of the republican base. but, you've also got a more than measurable, in fact sizable, minority of right-libertarians that prefer the republican party because they see it as being less invasive on civil liberties. the language is confusing and contentious, but these people are ideological liberals.
so, it's because he's so liberal, rather than despite it. and, this is upending all the conventional wisdom of the reagan era, which clinton is so intrinsically woven into. she's spent her whole life trying to appeal to the silent majority of reagan democrats - what the spectrum delusionally calls "moderates". but, they're all dead now. and, what's coming up in their place is a really starkly libertarian electorate, attached to both parties.
if we get nothing else from sanders, take heed of the following lesson: you're going to have to be liberal and proud of it to win an election in a predominantly x/y voting reality. and, sanders may consequently be simultaneously ahead of his time and stuck in the past. unstuck in time, maybe, even.
it's as simple as that right-libertarians prefer him over cruz or trump. and, it's easy to see why, if you think about it for a second.
at
15:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
the answer is that we need to use more electricity. the policy assumed we'd be driving electric cars and running high speed rails up and down the detroit-quebec city corridor, by now.
our electricity is clean. you're not helping the environment by using less of it. rather, you'd be helping the environment by using more of it - and less fossil fuels.
i would support a renationalizing of the grid, and a system run at cost.
but it's backwards logic to blame the problem on the green energy act. the green energy act was massively successful - it created a large surplus of clean energy, which was going to be required to help us get off of carbon. this exists. it's in place. what has failed has been the slow adoption of electric vehicles.
...and that's been a failure, largely, at the federal level.
wynne needs to call trudeau up and get him to push some serious tax cuts for electric cars. that's the piece of policy that has been a failure. and, for obvious reasons - we just got out of ten years of petrostate politics.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/electricity-ontario-1.3538157
our electricity is clean. you're not helping the environment by using less of it. rather, you'd be helping the environment by using more of it - and less fossil fuels.
i would support a renationalizing of the grid, and a system run at cost.
but it's backwards logic to blame the problem on the green energy act. the green energy act was massively successful - it created a large surplus of clean energy, which was going to be required to help us get off of carbon. this exists. it's in place. what has failed has been the slow adoption of electric vehicles.
...and that's been a failure, largely, at the federal level.
wynne needs to call trudeau up and get him to push some serious tax cuts for electric cars. that's the piece of policy that has been a failure. and, for obvious reasons - we just got out of ten years of petrostate politics.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/electricity-ontario-1.3538157
at
03:34
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
shit hillary said vol 31
“some critics of public schools urge greater competition among schools as a way of returning control from bureaucrats and politicians to parents and teachers. I find their arguments persuasive, and that’s why I strongly favor promoting choice among public schools.”
at
00:14
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
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