Wearing protective clothing doesn't discourage ticks, it places a barrier between your skin and the ticks. Similarly, using insect repellent doesn't discourage ticks, it repels them. The only way to discourage a tick is to catch it when it first gets on you, swat it on the nose with a rolled up newspaper*, and say, "Bad tick! Bad Tick!" *If you still have such a thing as a physical newspaper handy, that is. If you get your news online, hitting the tick with a laptop, tablet, or cell phone will generally work just as well.
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