Can it be hundreds of thousands of deaths a year?

This is one out of the old box but therefore no less useful. About half a century ago, a large-scale campaign began to ban a particular chemical. The campaign was successful, it was adequately responded to anxiety. Science was applied selectively. Politicians approached. Opponents authenticated. We know the procedure in the meanwhile.

Politicians who have banned as an asset had a short-term positive political electoral effect by banning this substance. The activists have proved their progressivity to their comrades. That's the asset. Who carries the costs of bans? And how big are these?

This is DDT. DDT has pros and cons. DDT has been widely used against insects as a deterrent since WWII. Here and there maybe too enthusiastic. Together with other pesticides that accumulated in body fat from prey animals, this threatened predators in particular.

DDT's biggest asset concerns the effectiveness against malaria mosquito. Kill the malaria mug and malaria does not get a chance. DDT has eradicated malaria, or at least played a role in eradicating malaria, in the US, the Balkans, parts of North Africa, northern Australia, Taiwan, and major parts of the Pacific. These are areas where, in addition to administering DDT, it is usually a well-developed healthcare to treat disease cases.

Following the ban on DDT in the US in 1971-1972, DDT became an infected product that was used less and less in the United States. Even a worldwide ban was considered. There is a great danger that DDT loses its effectiveness because insects become resistant to DDT's use. In Sri Lanka, this was the case. The WHO was very successful in reducing malaria on this island. A decline of 3 mln patients a year to only 29 patients in 1964 is no different than to qualify as a spectacular success. And shows the power of DDT. One stopped the DDT program, and 4 years later there were 600,000 patients again. Meanwhile there were resistant mosquitoes in the meantime. And DDT was far less effective than before.

The total number of infections and deadly malaria victims is difficult to estimate, figures range from 200-300 million patients a year and between 800 thousand and 3 million yearly deaths. It totally forbids this insecticide in the United States, and beyond, to authenticate this drug beyond which makes it much less used than otherwise would actually be considered one of the larger crimes of the last century. Robert Gwadz of the National Institutes of Health (US) mentioned a number of 20 million deaths due to non-continued use of DDT.

In my title I am somewhat more conservative. In India and in some other areas, the use of DDT has continued, despite all the fuss. However, especially as insecticide for the country. Consequently, there are resistant mosquitoes in the meantime, and the effectiveness decreases. If you want to overcome malaria then you can not do that with DDT alone, there's more to it. On the other hand, it becomes a lot more difficult to overcome malaria without DDT. DDT is now used indoors in Africa where the inner walls of the house are sprayed. For her blood consumption, the mosquito rests on a wall and dies.

What I am talking about in this post is the immorality of morals of moral superiority activists and politicians. The unintended consequences of DDT policy are no different than catastrophic. Time after time this kind of moral knight rises. Those parasitize on our fears. Whether it's fear of terrorism, Islam, DDT, CO2 or unemployment. These anxiety mowers combined with the suspicion that a government can protect us through enforced measures engender society. And we cost millions of dead and a lot of prosperity. Also the slightly milder form of collectivism we have here costs a lot of people's lives. Mao and Stalin are known as massacres. Milder forms of collectivism also require their annual dose of victims. As I try to show in this post.

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