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Speaking of bed bugs. This is really fucking creepy.
They are an epidemic here in Vancouver too, due to the failrly mild weather and high density. The became a real problem after they started showing up in low-income, subsidised housing for the drug addicted and mentally ill: people who are too ill to take care of the problem themselves.
I have several friends who work as support workers in these buildings and they take extraordinary precautions to avoid getting bed bugs. Designated couches for guests in their offices. The legs of all chairs and couches are dipped in vaseline. Wearing one set of clothes to work, changing after a shift and putting the work clothes in a garbage bag that immediately goes into the wash when you get home. Clean-up and exterminator businesses are making a fortune. They even have sniffer dogs to find them. From all the stories I have heard you never ever want them as they are sooo difficult to get rid of. Ick.
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