The locals must somehow become immune to the bugs. I do not understand how anyone could live in those conditions otherwise. I have a couple of friends who have spent time in areas near, and the consensus is that it's f-ing insane in high summer. Hundreds if not thousands of mosquitoes all up in your space, black flies, horseflies, soggy, boggy terrain. Man. Suicide might have been their sweet release after the mistake of not having checked google maps far enough to see that the northern highway ended at Gillam, instead of taking them to northern Ontario and beyond.
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