That's...not how the sterile tactic works. Anywhere in the world.

For starters, you think they're just going to release everything in winter because last fall there were a couple of cases in proximity of the border? It's insect ecology. Always wait for late-spring to summer before anything. Most generational breeding starts peak-summer period.

When we do this for mosquitos in SE Asia, African Lakes, South America, etc. you prepare, then go it at the right time.

"We had a case in Texas now! Unleash the horde!"

Aaaand you're fucked.

Again, the main concern is about how infestation breached through north of South America and Central America to get to North America. There were proxy cases to the US border over the last six months which obviously meant it'd be in the US come warmer months—and that's been factored for—but why did it get that far up the continent over the last two years?

These are things way outside of Trump's wheelhouse and apparently Lemmy users that only come in here for US politics articles.