september 17, 2008 06:28pm – in Korea
There's a heat wave on, and that's why the mosquitoes are thriving into Autumn. It's 6:00 or so, and today I've killed eight. They come out at night, so it's inevitable that I'll kill more. Eight in one day doesn't phase me, but today is excessive. I expect to have done in fifteen or so by the time I go to sleep.
If every sentient human in Gwangju kills one mosquito every day (That's very conservative) then that means a million die in a day in this one city. Stretched out over the hot part of the year, that's a hundred million (100,000,000) mosquitoes killed every year by a very reasonable estimate. For what it's worth.
Here's another illustration with numbers:
It's day 231, or 7 months and 18 days.
136 days remain.
or:
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start now end
For what it's worth.