Vermont Says Tick Season is All Year Now - Of Course it is, The Place is Run by Democrats - Granite Grok

Vermont Says Tick Season is All Year Now – Of Course it is, The Place is Run by Democrats

Im with Joe Tick

The headline at VT Digger is, in my amateur opinion – a bit misleading. “Officials say tick season is now all year,” Officials did say it, so it’s not on Digger, but I call BS. In Vermont, November, December, and January are inhospitable, even to ticks.

Unless, of course, by ticks, you mean Democrats. Those bloodsucking parasites are a scourge every day, no matter what the season. And Vermont is plagued with them. But that’s not what they meant, so I’m also calling BS in the general sense.

If you live where there are ticks, which are everywhere around here, you’ll know the cycle. Once they start in spring, they are all over and on everything. I have a short-haired white dog for a reason. He is crazy cute, but it is also easier to see and remove the critters before they drop off him (he’s on preventatives) and try to climb on me.

There’s nothing quite as satisfying as placing a live tick on the mosquito racket and pressing the power button. Snap! No more tick.

Burial “at sea” is good too. Crushing them against a stump or a rock works. Or just with a fingernail. Good times. You can’t do that to Democrats despite them being bloodsuckers, too, and not just because it’s illegal and immoral. Democrats may whine like bratty pig-tailed schoolgirls when you get the pronouns wrong, but they can still be saved, ticks – not so much.

And the typical season is spring, followed by a lull, and then again in the fall. Most summers, we don’t see ticks on the white dog, but in Vermont, they are saying it’s going to be an all-year thing, and it’s all confusing because of climate change.

 

There are many factors that have made it difficult for experts to make predictions about the severity of tick season, Casey said. One factor making tick season especially unpredictable is climate change.

“We were never really comfortable making predictions, but climate change has thrown everything to the wind,” she said.

 

 

Vermont’s not super hot. Even in the age of rising climate change dogma, the annual average temperature is around 41.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Blacklegged ticks can be active above freezing in any year, but you don’t see them much when there’s snow on the ground. Most of your other varieties prefer the temperature at 45 degrees or higher before becoming a nuisance.

The assumption, therefore, is that since it’s warmer because of climate change, we’ll see more ticks. Forget all that business about climate change, also saying it can get colder and snowier. That only applies when it is colder, and we have more snow (and no ticks), you racist.

And credit where it’s due. Climate change has “thrown everything to the wind,” which means no one will want to explain why after peaking in 2013, the average daily temperature in Vermont has been on a 7-year slide or what that means with regard to ticks.

The critters, not the Democrats.

We know what those Dems are about, and they are doing a fine job of making America inhospitable to people no matter what the weather.

One final note. Once March stopped being cold, the ticks started up, and April was pretty fierce. A lot of activity. We’ve seen few, if any, in May, so Vermont’s problem probably is Democrats. The ticks are just trying to shoehorn their way in on the year-long bloodsucking parasites in elected office.

 

 

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