Democrat scare stories 2019-2020, Coronavirus..."'Murder Hornets' Are Now In The U.S., What Does This Really Mean"

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/05/03/murder-hornets-are-now-
in-the-us-what-does-this-really-mean/#335f7bf94969

OK. The word murder is rarely a happy-go-lucky word, except in perhaps
“murder mystery dinner party.” So when news broke over the weekend that
“murder hornets” have been spotted in the U.S. for the first time, it
caused quite a buzz. Not a good buzz as in what comes with some wine or a
new BTS song. But more of a “what-else-can-go-wrong-in-2020-while-the-
COVID-19-coronavirus-is-still-spreading-and-who-the-heck-keeps-buying-up-
all-the-toilet-paper” buzz. Here’s just a sample of the response on
Twitter:



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In his tweet, actor Patton Oswalt went from bad to worse. Sure a fecal
blizzard would be a (enter your favorite curse word for poop here) storm.
But a Cats sequel like Cats: Endgame? That could be disastrous. As you can
see, Oswalt referenced an article by Mike Baker in the May 2 edition of
the New York Times, which is what generated the social media buzz this
weekend and not the actual initial arrival of the hornets. This is
actually slightly old news as a few of these hornets had been spotted in
the northwest corner of Washington State this past fall. Perhaps the
hornets could use some better public relations agents.

Having “murder” in your name certainly isn’t going to help your public
face. It’s certainly worse than “nudge hornet” or the “would you like some
pumpkin spice with that latte hornet.” It isn’t clear who did the
negotiating for the hornets as this tweet asked:


Nevertheless, the hornets have earned their nickname. These hornets, which
are the largest hornet species in the world, potentially growing to over
two inches long, can be extremely aggressive. Just look at how they
decapitate bees in mid-air in this BBC Earth Unplugged video:


Yep, the “Bee Afraid” headline in the video is right. Flying the “headless
bee bodies back to their own nests to feed their own young,” is pretty
gruesome.

These murder hornets are otherwise known as Asian giant hornets (no, Asian
Americans have nothing to do with them), Vespa mandarinia or yak-killer
hornets.

Before you start equating the murder hornet threat with the COVID-19
coronavirus, don’t. The two are not comparable. The murder hornet is much,
much, much less of an immediate threat to human life. The murder hornets
are not big enough to decapitate humans, thank goodness. Instead, human
deaths could occur via a sting that carries a venom, called mandarotoxin,
which is a neurotoxin. It usually takes multiple stings to deliver a
lethal dose for humans. However, if you are allergic to the venom, your
risk of death can go much higher.

The murder hornets are probably not an immediate threat to health in 2020.
Currently, there aren’t enough of them around. And they don’t seem to seek
out humans to sting them like in some horror movie. Each year in Japan,
several dozen people die from the hornet stings. That’s not insignificant
but it certainly isn’t over 66,000, which is how many the COVID-19
coronavirus has killed already. While you should stay as far away from
these hornets as you can, you don’t have to clutch your blanket muttering
“murder hornets” repeatedly.

The bigger concern is what the murder hornet will do to the bee population
in the U.S. As the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) website explains,
“pollinators, most often honey bees, are responsible for one in every
three bites of food we take, and increase our nation’s crop values each
year by more than $15 billion. However, honey bees have been in serious
decline for more than three decades in the United States.” Having new
Jack-the-head-rippers around certainly isn’t going to help this situation.
Thus, the invasion of these hornets poses a longer term threat to human
health. If the hornets were to take hold in the U.S., it could eventually
dramatically change the available plants and food here.

The key then is to stop the spread of these hornets and get rid of them
and their nests before they reproduce and spread enough to the point that
they can no longer be eliminated from this country. Therefore, speedy
decisive action is required to make sure that this doesn’t become a
broader, more difficult to deal with threat. Otherwise, lack of action
today could take their toll on human health and many other things in the
future. Sound familiar?

Go hide in your closets.

Don't eat.


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