fake news - Tylers are comped and regurgitate 4am points quite often
I haven't done ANY digging on tick borne illness. The reason I haven't is that ticks have been biting me all my life (half century) and I never contracted anything except the occasional pimple where I left their digger parts in when I yanked them out. With 40 acres to take care of, ticks are just a thing, like mosquitoes, that you have to deal with.
When I first started reading about all this 'tick stuff', I just switched it off because it does not match my reality at all. My reality is that ticks are a nuisance, but not threatening my life. You get one or a few, and you yank them out and life goes on. This smells to me of more fear mongering and push to get more pesticides sprayed and doctor visit made.