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Paris Olympics aims to be mosquito-free (www.insidethegames.biz)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it really as easy as emptying standing water from potted plants and saucers?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lmao paris and it's promises I can't

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It reminds me of Rio, when they claimed their polluted water would be clean in time for the athletes to swim in during the Olympics. Spoiler (but not really): it wasn’t.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well guess what paris promised

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Spoiler: it won't be either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m almost afraid to ask. What?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Let's just say according to sem you'll be able to swim along the ducks and beer bottles

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I've already been blue-balled on a mass genocide of mosquitos so many times that i'm not going to get my hopes up again.