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Ticks are nasty but you overestimate their damage greatly.
They can indeed carry horrible diseases but if you do things right the chance of catching one is minimal.
I get ticks all the time every summer, the key is to every night, sometimes several times a day undress and locate them and pick them off your body before they bite.
They can crawl over you and your clothes for days sometimes before biting, like 9/10 on me I always get before they bit me.
The ones that do bite me I pull out at least the same day, usually before bedtime but often before that for checking regularly in heavy-tick areas.
Also just because a tick is carrying some disease and they bite you doesn't mean 100% you're infected, it doesn't work like that.
First of all it may take a long time for them to transfer whatever they're carrying, it takes hours for them to dig through your skin until they even get to the blood vessel they want.
Secondly you have an immune system, just because you get a few bacteria in you doesn't guarantee they have free reign over your body do to what they want so even that isn't 100% infection rate.
Anyway it's all in prevention work, I've gotten so used to picking them off me mostly I feel when they bite me somewhere and get them immediately despite their numbing saliva(guess I developed some superpower after enough bites).
Had so many bite me and never got sick.
Then there's this guy I know who NEVER goes /out and got ONE tick in like his whole lifetime and it gives him lymee.
Well he had it on him for a week until he found this huge knob on his body eventually and crushed it, even that is considered very unlucky despite doing everything wrong.
Use tick spray on pants/shoes and like 90% of the ticks will run away from you but I've never even had to do that with my regimen to stay safe.
