Why Singapore Purposefully Releases 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
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US: War on terror
Australia: War on Emus
Singapore: War on Mosquitos
War on Emus?
@@fast1nakus yeah search up I think they also did appears on a few other animals
@@itismethatguy I'm sad to report that we lost that battle
US: War on Drugs would work pretty well too
I think right now (or earlier this year) Australia is waging a war on rats
Did you just assume that I didn’t know that scientists in Singapore are building factories to breed diseased mosquitos?
Yes, yes they did
No I don’t think he did………
No, but they predicted you would watch it.
Don't worry, they didn't.
They did, however, assume your gender.
@@maldivirdragonwitch all Americans who use Twitter within a 420 mile radius just died
The way this channel finds random stock footage for nearly any and every situation is nothing short of amazing.
Buys a shit tonne of stock footage. Search mosquito
???
Profit
*includes stock footage of a woman depressingly giving a condom to another woman in a video about mosquitos*
500th like 🙃
skillshare?
@@salmonellq2981 Pretty sure they find those footage in the Nebula bundle deal with 10% off [insert rest of the sponsorship]
Calling Singapore "a pacific island nation" is infuriatingly technically correct lol
It's way closer to the indian ocean though
@@juch3 depends if you count the south china sea as part of the pacific. Oceans don't tend to have hard boarders so it's kinda subjective
@@joshmorcombe4907 ”don’t tend to have hard borders” … umm, beaches?
@@trueilarim well duh, I mean when to Oceans connect by water with no land in between, like where exactly under South Africa does the Atlantic become the Indian? And in this case, where in Austronesia exactly does the Indian become the Pacific? Is it the Malay Peninsula? The Philippines? If you wanted to you could argue that there's only one Ocean, because there's nothing separating them from each other
@@trueilarim every ocean is connected no continent completely blocks it off?
Wish he would've mentioned that male mosquitoes don't bite, so you're not going to get bit more when these mosquitoes are released.
Yep. This would probably prevent some people from saying this is quite dumb
Is that why they don’t release infected male and female mosquitos? Cuz otherwise it seems like a stupid idea not to
@@pendhd649 likely to increase effectiveness, since the male and female mosquito will still breed infected or not.
I live in Florida and sell a system that sprays pyrethroids in The yard to kill mosquitos. I just want to offer my endorsement of the content of this video. It’s very accurate based on my knowledge and experience. I’d also emphasize that only the females bite. Lastly, these mosquitos kill approximately 500-600 THOUSAND humans globally each year through disease.
And the female mosquitoes only bite when they're pregnant.
The problem with pesticides sounds eerily similar to the problem that could arise with antibiotics. As we use more and more antibiotics, the fear is that the dangerous bacteria could mutate and survive the antibiotics, thus, creating superbugs.
you can think of pesticides as antibiotics that target large animals instead of microorganisms
A bit the same with pig-farming and high levels of penicillinen. What we eat we become...slowly.
We could start using bacteriophages to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria. Also, unlike microorganisms, larger creatures like mosquitos don't mutate as often.
There are already bacteria which are resistent against multiple antibiotics and the problem is getting worse.
Literal superbugs
When you realize that mosquitos kill twice as many humans as humans and 20 times as many humans as snakes meaning that humans kill 10 times more humans than snakes
I’m more interested that it’s only 1000% more! 😂
@@b40z74 no it's 900% more
1000% of 1 is 10, and adding that to the original 1 makes 11, which is incorrect.
@@h-Films I might be misunderstanding what you are saying, but isn't it 1000%? Twice as many is 200% so therefore 10 times as many is 1000%. 900% of 1 is 9, which is 9 times more than one, not 10 times.
@@inkballer but they said more, which means adding on to the original
@@h-Films both at the start of the comment and in the video they say as many. I think the more was an error in the original comment
'Sad, unproductive sex"
I feel personally attacked.
Really? Only the first two parts of that statement apply to me! ... wait...
are you a mosquito
@@minikipp8549 Are u serious or a 8 year old?
@@TG-uj5fp no i am neither serious or an 8 year old
@@TG-uj5fp He was just being sarcastic, friend :D
I remembered learning about this in a magazine published here in Singapore called Young Scientists. I read it when I was in primary school, so I have no clue if it's still being printed, but the stuff they included were really interesting, especially for a younger me.
oh man I remember those, I used to love reading those but now I sold all of mine to another kid
They were actually interesting? Not just half as
Holy shit I remember Young Scientists too
Omg I remember subscribing to it as well. It's so nostalgic to remember them, they're so interesting to read. So much so that 50% of my magazines don't make it home from school because the teachers had to confiscate them to stop me from reading in class
@@adorablecatmaid that says a lot about the teacher's lesson or school in general... (as flatly as possible ) whoora singapore !
"...and a million times as many humans as Caitlyn Jenner that one time"
Holy shit I'm dying
just like the guy caitlyn jenner hit with her car
Brutal
@@oliviersavard8676 his*
@@oliviersavard8676 *bruce jenner
@@KobbleGobbler 🤓
I have to say, fighting mosquitoes makes more sense to me than fighting emus and sparrows
Emus were wrecking agriculture so it wasn't that insane.
@@matthewleong2726 all the farmers had to do is erect taller and sturdier fences so the military don't have to get involved.
Add fighting humans to that list too
@@triadwarfare all they had to do was eat the emus.
Malaysia is in a political mess, and just when I thought it couldn't get worse, I see a video of our overacheiving neighbour that we kicked out so many years ago.
You think Malaysia is a mess?
Bharat mein padharo sa
@@heh2393 lol, In bharat we are worse than a political mess
@@neoindiamapping9162 Lol
@@neoindiamapping9162 Eh, it could be worse. Atleast we are not Afghans.
I feel very bad for what they are having to go through. May God give them the strength to endure, the light will pierce the dark clouds.
@@heh2393 yes, even though our bharat is very diverse, patriotism still brings us together
Mosquitos: You have freed us!
Singaporean scientists: Oh, I wouldn't say free. More like...
Inserting Wolbachia: *UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT*
“Mosquitoes are much like an unattended 4 year old in a Dave and Buster’s: they’re nearly impossible to restrict, slow down, or kill” this is one of the best jokes on this channel
“Nearly” 😂
Haha, there's a spelling mistake at 4:01! Now you'll have to make another mistakes video when the time comes!
The title has a misspelling as well
Are you Indian mate?
@@vishalsinghbaghel No, I'm an American Jew
it should be i/uninfected
Coming next week!
2:00 Can confirm - 4 year olds can't be killed with pesticides.
Pesticides do tent to have "keep out of reach of children" on the labels, have you tried putting it in their box filled with toys?
sounds like you're using the wrong pesticides then
there are new tech called calling his mom
Just use more
(Sadly)
Not a Singaporean citizen here, but living in one of the countries experimenting with Wolbachia infections here. Had the privilege of living in one of the areas where the govt experimented with such a release and cases of dengue in the area afterweards dropped so far down that it no longer gets declared as a dengue danger zone when the usual dengue season came by. I dare say our area got safer than control as a result even.
I mean it's not impossible to kill a four-year-old child it's just that our patience level is relatively higher I'd kill it anytime tho
Sometimes it's not patience, it's just the law.
@@shuttlecrossing1433 We must revolt, and rise above the law!
@@shuttlecrossing1433 sometimes is not even about the law, is about not being savvy enough to not be caught
@@matheussanthiago9685 is it really illegal if you arent caught? Laws only apply when they know you broke em
@@HawkstrikeEdu well one time i flashed a school bus my 🌭 never got the caught 🤫 🌭🌭🌭🌭 🚌 👀🙌🏻🤯😭😭😍
I like this channel as it highlights the weird and wonderful world of stock footage.
Like seriously where the heck does this stuff come from?
@loonasthinker huh, that's pretty neat
@loonasthinker yeah i remember that there was a stock footage of a skeleton talking to his wife as well as a stock footage of a dog making a call
Sam mentioned in his not-main channel that he uses Storyblocks (then Videoblocks back when he mentioned it) for his stock footage.
This was way back when.
Anyone can sell videos or photos to stock image sites. There's some odd stuff
My friends dad is a professor who headed most of this, he's still studying the "disease map" of how effective it is.
Wow, must be interesting to know one of the leading experts on mosquitos going at it.
Gay
RustyShackelford6 sorry this ain't a mirror
Areas have been mapped by mosquito cases too, green for mosquito safe-ish to red for Toa Payoh
Why not ask him to also release females, which will give birth to incel males and thereby reduce the population of mosquitos??
“Males that spend too much time on Reddit to fertilize an egg” I FEEL AGGRESSIVELY ATTACKED
Yea me too i like greek salads you want see my 🌭 ??! 🙌🏻👀🤫
Ill be await for the you
Greek salads ?
🤫🤫🤫🤫🌭👍🏽🌈🤫🙌🏻🙇🏼🧖🏼👠🍆🕸💦🧏🏻♀️👨🏿🍳 yea you get that yea i get that
@@jessielastern3064 r/ihadastroke
Singapore keeps surprising me everyday but then again we sometimes drink reused toilet water to hold a middle finger to Malaysia
Nah Singapore surprised for doing something this dumb, otherwise Singapore is very intelligent, I did watch the video and I said this statement bcuz more mosquitoes bites and what if something goes wrong
@@imakeeditsiwillbeatevil9346 did you watch the video lmao
Why don't u try invented a machine to 100℅ purified the ocean, I see there is a lot of water in ocean and not many try to invented it, so it's a huge win
@@randomthing9712 Ocean is still a poo and pee water,but with oil,corpses,and etc for flavour
@@moonlightyong1924 yeah, shame it's to expensive, but what i mean is the cheaper one but has the same capability,
u can rich asf
As a kid I always asked why do mosquitoes exist, like their sole purpose is to spread diseases at worst and bother the shit out of you at best (I live in the tropics, mosquito is a year-round occurrence).
Nowadays I just swat them with those electric swatters.
Exist solely to keep human populations low and ruin picnics.
A good parasite / virus wouldn’t kill its host so the disease spreading is quite a flaw. Maybe they’ll evolve to sterilize themselves to keep from accidentally killing their food source. Or just get really really big
As far as I know mosquitoes are sort of useful because they help with pollination (when they are off feeding on flower nectar and fruits instead of our blood).
@@DoABarrelRol1l Kyochuu Rettou Flashbacks...
Ecological studies have revealed that mosquitoes do not fill any ecological niche that couldn’t be filled by other species. So... yeah, they’re just a nuisance.
@@FlyingSagittarius Unfortunately for us, we could probably say the same about humans.
"this dumb everybody wins Mister Rogers BS"
The generations who grew up watching him: *Them's fightin words*
Me who has zapped and slapped several Asian tiger mosquitos, known to carry Zika:
*Maybe I am a hero*
I don't usually write in the comments section but that Caitlyn Jenner's joke (just like Caitlyn herself) really killed me.
Another victim
You know, today and today only, I’ve heard jokes about Caitlyn Jenner deleting someone off of the Earth with her car lmao, RIP though
Can someone explain me what happened?
@@user-sn1bb8yq9f I second this
@@user-sn1bb8yq9f en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlyn_Jenner#Fatal_car_collision
"Mosquitoes are like an unattended child in a Dave and Busters, impossible to restrict, slow down or kill" I didn't expect that to be so dark
I wish they'd do something similar with ticks to get rid of Lyme disease.
Hey me talking here
This not cool of the you
When you experience cold temps: Panik
But as a result there's no mosquitos: Kalm
A small price to pay...for salvation
You wouldn't have to deal with mosquitos when you don't have any in the first place
*This post was made by Iceland and Antarctica gang*
You sure Iceland doesn't have mosquitos? The Far North has shitloads of biting insects during the summer months
This is very much real! A few months ago, the National Environmental Agency released a lot of mosquitos near my school! My classmates and teacher killed a few though, so we could’ve possibly reduced the effectiveness of this project-
HAI: Deadly mosquito borne disease are found most commonly in Sub Saharan Africa and in smaller pacific island nations like Singapore.
The Caribbean and Central America: You know for once I'm ok being left out.
All I keep thinking is Homer Simpson going “Mmmmmmm Mosquitos” after he says 3,500 flavors of mosquito
There's research on the possibility of engineering a "gene drive" that would cause mosquitoes to only have male offspring. Of course, that would cause them to go extinct, but in that case it would be a good thing.
"While they can seem pointless and purely irritating to us humans, mosquitoes do play a substantial role in the ecosystem. Mosquitoes form an important source of biomass in the food chain-serving as food for fish as larvae and for birds, bats and frogs as adult flies-and some species are important pollinators." copyed from a google search but its not like we need all the 3500 typs of mosquitos for that so killing the ones with deadly disease should be fine
This is a tricky one and requires the thought process of us verses them
There are over 3,000 species of mosquitoes yet only around 200 carry malaria, so less than 10percent. Is it fair to destroy a whole ecology for ten percent, arguably yes due to them being one of the largest vectors for human disease. But what would be the consequence of eradicating mosquitoes, stepping away from morality
But what if we stepped away from humanity and looked at the ecosystems that are dependent on these creatures for food… while they may adapt our world is already struggling with animal populations dropping… why add another problem to that? Fish, birds and flowers are dependent on mosquitoes.
Why not invest in better infrastructure to support people who are struggling, distributing wealth providing research, medicine and hospitals?
Our solution cannot be to kill them because where will we draw the line in our already dying world
@@Joshua-br7mc You would have to do that for each species separately..
“iuninfected females”
What do I win?
I always start these videos being like, “there’s no way, this has got to be clickbait” and ending the video like “oh, that’s interesting, I’m going to share this to random people”
I have seen tens of thousands of CZcams thumbnails/titles and I think this is the best I have ever seen
THAT WAS THE SICKEST CAITLYN BURN. I actually gasped haha
How is nobody else pointing out that he called Singapore a "smaller pacific island nation" ?
What else would it be?
That's right! We are.... smaller indian island nation...? Not right.... We are.... smaller Singapore Straits island nation.... which is also the only island nation in Singapore Straits, hence Singapore.
@@wut7640 it's a small island nation but it's definitely not in the Pacific ocean
@@Bob7Bob7Bob7 if your point is oh it's part of the south China sea, you do realise oceans are made up of many little seas.
It's all fun and games until the bacteria itself backstab us hoomans
Yea me agree
@Jessie lastern me too pal
Yea theses comments are litty broski
Hoomans HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHA
Am i wright guy or Am i right hahaha
I've been intending to buy a brilliant subscription for a few weeks now but I've been waiting for your next video
"Ohh so THAT's why i had 20 mosquito bites after my layover in Singapore!"
Use insect repellent next time lol
Okay ill admit this never actually happened to me, I just imagine someone watching the video and thinking this so i posted it lol
@@cedricye1767 oh whoops didn't notice it was a quotation lmao
@@moonlightyong1924 its fine my fault for not specifying
No.. Male mosquitos don't bite. Female mosquitos only bite to become fertile or something like that. Male mosquitos are like fruit flies they just eat sugary stuff.
Singapore: *creates 5 million mosquitos*
The exterminator who just got off a hard day of work:
HAI: mentioned COVID in this video.
CZcams monetization: so u have chosen DETH?!
This is definitely an advanced, and complicated solution, to a problem I never thought existed
Wow whoever wrote this episode, wow. Good work, had me laughing the whole time when usually I just chuckle
I have *no* idea what to make of this... but historically, all the best HAI videos start like that :D
hello good people of youtube ! here i have sp,e unsolicited opinions i have about the people of singapore[...]
Que???
Oh no
Mosquitoes are much like an unintended four year old in a Dave & Buster's--They are nearly impossible to restrict, slow down, or *KILL* ?!
Mosquitoes: *exist*
Singapore: Ooooh submissive and breedable
why does this sound so cursed..?
@@ricojes it is
NO
That Reddit reference hurts…
Don’t use Reddit then
@@mansoorahmed1256 how?
7 yo me after killing a mosquito: maybe I am a hero after all
Definitely gotta have a part 2
Absolutely fantastic video
I feel like Alex Jones would have been a better bot rather than Rush lol!
yeah, but it wouldn't've led to as good a pun.
@@Rot8erConeX lol lol yes yes it was a beautiful pic of it and you did not even see me what ever happened to you and I just got the same pic you sent you like that I was just mad lol you got it all good lol I just woke you so I just got home I got home from my moms and my mom said she got a big boy and I didn’t know what to say 😂😂😂😂🍆💦
Look at the recent lab leaks and affiliations declining with darpa with eco health and the whistle blowers working at the virology institute in wuhan. It was manufactured!!!
singapore: Purposefully Creates 5 Million Mosquitos a Week
africa: b r u h
I actually go to a university here in the US that is studying Wolbachia! I was in a microbiology lab last year that studied it. This bacteria can’t hurt humans or the environment so it’s pretty much a best case scenario. However, if you’re like me and hate mosquitoes with a burning, fiery passion, then you’ll be sad to hear that Wolbachia doesn’t hurt the mosquitoes either. This leads me to the video idea I just had: What would happen if all the mosquitoes on Earth disappeared?
Whenever I see an HAI or Wendover Productions video, I always wonder how the stock video actors were told how to act for the stock video footage.
Bruh half as interesting always got the most funniest jokes lol
yo sam at 4:05 you put an extra i in front of uninfected female
I somehow read it as "surprise mosquito factory"
4:43 that hit too close to home for me and my body pillow
Holy crap I remember being on the phone with some American friends on the day this started happening and was trying to explain to them what was going on! My mum just took out some old stuff to test if the equipment was still working, when out of nowhere the living room was infested with mosquitoes. We all panicked and tried to kill all of them, before my mum went downstairs for some reason that I don't remember and saw a notice board informing us of this very thing! Meanwhile this one mosquito was flying around my ear and I heard a high-pitched buzzing sound that I never heard in real life before. The next time this happened, there was one in The lift/elevator and kept coming to my hair. It's, quite an experience alright
why did i watch this while eating
Great video. Rush would be proud!
You should check the release of tons of flies in the border of Guatemala and Mexico too, interesting stuff.
cant wait for more rush limbot
Gotta say this again, shoutout to my hometown for coming up with the weirdest solutions
Oh cool. The university I work at in Singapore has a mosquito lab and I'm very sure they're working with Project Wolbachia. Cursed but amazing.
4:06 Sam has a new addition for his mistakes video
(Iuninfected female, bottom left mosquito)
3:34 I'm pretty sure HAI hired Hideo Kojima instead of Rush Lim-bot
I am glad someone else thought of MGS when watching this video.
So my brain didn't make that one up
It’s all fun and games until Skull Face gets his hands on the Wolbachia to create a vocal chord parasite…
Should’ve listened to Code Talker
Been scrolling for a reference to metal gear. Its sad that it took me a minute to find it
the stock footage on this channel makes my depression worse
I can't see any reference to Wolbachia without immediately thinking of vocal cord parasites.
Wouldn't this be a better time to plug Brilliant's stuff on population genetics instead of computational biology?
4:57 This is really only a 4-minute video. The 1st minute is a bad joke setup and the last minute is an ad.
If they can remove the noise genetically then i wont mind.
The noisy ones in denmark disturbs my beauty sleep.
"...that's great! Because I just so happened to have already made the rest of this video be about that exact topic!" 😂🤣
2:00 coming from experience, I can say that it is, in fact, easy to kill unattended kids in Dave and Busters
3:07 That stock video is PTSD-triggering. I can hear "TRAINING TO BE SOLDIERS" echoing through the internal working of my brain.
I'm still in this nightmare. Kill me.
FreSch Left Left Left Right Left, ECHO AFTER ME AH!
@@tanqs789 1.2 more years then I'm finally out (posted tekong)
@@FreSch_Dude MY CONDOLENCES HAHAHHAHA
Posted as what? Chocolate bar? 3 chevron or just a man
@@Spartan-sz7km LCP medic...
The fact that the subsahara area is colored gray (and the not affected area white) but the smaller pacific island nation white instead of both being the same color makes me sad. So confusing. @1:30
Guess we will know where mutated mosquitoes came from ten years from now.
"How to get rid of insects"
Virgin Singaporeans: By releasing infected males so they can't breed
CHAD Abuelas: *C H A N C L E T A*
ah yes la chancla
Ok but getting rid of mosquitoes 🦟 like all of them or really just any species because that will most likely have huge problems on the environment in which that species or any species really of that mosquito lives in and because although this is an option the extinction of ANY species is a bad thing!
That is a risk i am kind of okay with taking, if shit happens, shit happens, but at least there will be no mosquitoes, if as a consequence we cause a mass extinction event that is also okay, no price is too expensivee to get rid of mosquitoes
One small correction, mosquito diseases are found all around the tropics, from Central and South America, to the Caribbean, Africa, Southeast Asia, etc.
Orrr, or just hear me out…dragonflies 😂😂. LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOW GOOD DRAGONFLIES ARE AT KEEPING MOSQUITOES UNDER CONTROL
Yeah..they are tasty too after being baked in bamboo..
Dragonflies W
sadly we don’t really have that much dragonflies here. Also dragonflies could only live near water but mosquitoes are pricks and spread everywhere so
Aren’t all vaccines developed in a lab.., that’s how most medicines are developed… what
That's the joke, he was stating things that sounded like conspiracies but were actually just obvious information
Congratulation for 10 million subscribers advance 🥳
Just hear me out Flame Throwers
Here are some unsolicited opinions I have about the people of Singapore:
* They are Asian
* I don't know much about them
* I hope they don't get annexed by China or something
* There is a Singaporean lady at my workplace and she's really nice.
need this in whole world 🌍
The rush limbot thing was kinda funny but he is dead so chill
"I stopped feeding my writers to afford you"
rush limbaugh died bro
little too soon
They are doing cool stuff, but I'm a bit scared of living near this factory LOL
The male mosquitoes don’t bite, so it’s not like they’ll bother anyone. Living near them would actually benefit you because there will be less and less mosquitoes every week
Thanks for featuring Singapore!
Wait no, you do that everyday.
"How do we fight fire?"
"We burn down all the buildings"
You really should make Rush Lim-bot a recurring character
I like how every Limbaugh conspiracy is either true or up for debate 😄
Nah they just cliche
They’re all literally true, just misleadingly worded:
- Obama wasn’t born in the contiguous US, but that’s because he was born in Hawai’i
- COVID-19 vaccines are made in labs, but that’s because every vaccine is
@@EnigmaticLucas But Obama wasn't born in Hawaii.
@@RabbiHerschel And the sky is neon green
@@EnigmaticLucas The sky is blue, and Barack Hussein Obama was not born in the United States or any of its territories.
I remember reading this as an SAT passage
I'm having some weird metal gear solid v flashbacks hearing about wolbachia again.
1:00 something racist