COMMENTARY - Monday's Post-Gazette published an article pooh-poohing the idea that this year will be especially bad for ticks. They quoted a Penn State Extension agent and county health department official who said there's no solid evidence that more ticks survived the mild winter this year.
How much do you want to bet they were sitting in a tick-free office when they were talking to the reporter? It's easy to downplay them when you're not outside. Meanwhile, I had two ticks in three days last week.
The public is right to want to call out the National Guard to annihilate the disgusting buggers, an idea which Bill Todaro of the health department mocks. I think I speak for the masses when I say it's time to deal with the terrorists in our own backyards. The only good tick is a dead tick, and the sooner Penn State and the Health Department figures that out the better.
