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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get the caution about unintended consequences but damnit of all the crazy planetary issues we're dealing with right now, I'd rank

"oops, got rid of West Nile and Malaria as well as annoying little red bumps from wandering too far from big cities"

As a win, the consequences of which we can probably figure out how to deal with when we come to it.

I know it doesn't work that way but I'd trade all the world's mosquitoes to keep the polar bears or pangolins or something any day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Mosquitoes are the bottom of the food chain. There's reason to be worried about this getting out of hand