Well there are more mosquitoes in Earth than bullets for guns. Currently all the countries are in the process of making as much as ammunition as there are mosquitoes. We can’t attack now as it would alert them and lead to a mass retaliation(with dengue, Chikungunya ect). We have one shot at this and in the near future (i think in about 4.5 years) we are going to shoot them down.
Few reasons.
1 They’re different branches of science
2 “Talking robots” aren’t super common everywhere, not on the scale of stopping millions from dying, and self driving cars have a commercial value, people pay for them, most of the people dying from mosquitoes can’t really afford much.
3 It’d be easier to kill all mosquitoes than to keep them alive while still not being safe from them, we don’t kill them because it could really have negative impacts on the ecosystem that could be worse than the mosquito problem
> Why can we not stop mosquitoes from killing tens of thousands each year?
I invite you to ask yourself the following two questions:
1. How much USD have you spent on tech gadgets?
2. How much USD have you donated to malaria prevention charities?
I’m going out on a limb here and assuming #1 is at least an order of magnitude higher than #2, probably two or three if you’re more like the average citizen.
Also: evolution. There have been pharmaceutical interventions that take out the mosquitos susceptible to that drug (or pesticide or.. ) and the ones that survive and make more mosquitoes can tolerate that treatment and then it no longer works. And it takes time to develop the next treatment or intervention.
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