"Before Huey came along, the mosquitoes were kicking our ass. Mosquitoes love the Greenhouse future. When it got hotter and wetter, they came in tidal waves. Carrying malaria, dengue fever, encephalitis.... After the big Mississippi floods, mosquitoes boiled out of every ditch in the state. It was a major health emergency, people were dyin’. And Huey had just been sworn in. He just wouldn’t have it, he said, ‘ Take action, get rid of ’em. ’ He sent out the fogger trucks. Not insecticide, not that poison gas like before—DDT and toxins. That screwed up everything—not doable, everybody knows that. But Huey figured it out—he didn’t gas the bugs, he gassed the people . With airborne antibodies. They’re like breathable vaccinations. The people of Louisiana are toxic to mosquitoes now. Our blood literally kills them. If a mosquito bites a Cajun, that mosquito dies on the spot."