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From comments about the fall 2023 bedbug outbreak in Paris, as recorded in news reports.

Having bedbugs is no laughing matter.

No one is safe.

Bedbugs do not rest.

They run over us in broad daylight.

I spent my days searching for them, killing them, trying to make them flee, but it didn’t work.

I lifted up my mattress, and they were there.

I lifted up my sheet. There was one there.

Even in the train there are pureed bedbugs.

The state must urgently bring together all the stakeholders concerned in order to deploy an action plan commensurate with this scourge.

Bedbugs are not a right-wing or a left-wing issue.

All major cities are concerned.

We need a collective mobilization.

We must not fall into madness.

Everyone is panicking.

I’ve had nightmares.

I consulted a dermatologist and two GPs.

I won’t say that I’ve had PTSD, but it’s not far from the truth.

I will undoubtedly try hypnosis.

There is no threat to the Olympic Games.

Bedbugs existed before and they will exist after.


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