ELI5: How does the entire city of NYC not have bed bugs?

Yes, yes they do. I work at a pest control company and have panic attacks when I ask the customer how long they have been seeing them and they say “oooh about six months.”

So for the past six months this person has been delivering bed bugs/eggs to every soft surface they have come into contact with, every unknowing friends house they have visited, every persons car they have sat in. Every theater they have visited.

Bed bugs spread like wildfire once they get a foothold. People that have had them for months that don’t care are actively giving them to others. We’ve had children’s daycare centers call because one child had them and now everyone does. We’ve had a bling guy who had no idea he had them and continued his normal life until someone visited him and saw them. Had a guy who worked for a church who found bites on his child all because he gave a homeless person a ride in his car and his home became infested.

Bed bugs ARE SERIOUS and spread VERY EASILY!

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