Posted on 03/28/2020 2:18:21 PM PDT by Libloather
Precautions put in place to slow the rise of coronavirus cases in New Orleans has inadvertently led to a rat problem for the Louisiana city. With restaurants closed save for take-out service, far less food waste is being discarded in the city's alleyways, driving the local rodent population out into the open to search for scraps.
New Orleans' famous Mardi Gras celebration brought thousands of tourists to the city, and medical experts believe it might be a big factor in the city's COVID-19 outbreak. Now with Bourbon Street's famous bars all closed and people social distancing, videos show dozens of rats scurrying through the empty streets.
"I turn the corner, there's about 30 rats at the corner, feasting on something in the middle of the street," one local restauranteur told CBS News' Omar Villafranca. He said he had "never" seen anything like it before.
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lol
If i was still good with graphics i’d put the 4 bimbettes and pelosi on rat bodies in NO :)
City below sea level. Whatta you expect. The low lying parts should have been condemned after Katrina. Dont think those rats arent there when the citys packed with people. They just hide.
“Same as worms.”
Same as buzzards
(To completel the quote from the Outlaw Josey Wales
Nicely done. LOL!
This virus has exposed something really awful about our country.
We once were a great nation but the corruption at all levels of government, the filth, the degeneracy, the decline in morals, the condition of democratic strongholds, is something to behold.
I can only hope and pray that people are shocked by what they are seeing revealed and that something changes next election cycle.
This country needs a good housecleaning in many ways, and if that doesn’t happen in NOV, we might as well kiss this country goodbye.
NOLA...needs another Sheriff Harry Lee (RIP) to claim open rat season like he did with the nutria in Jeff Parrish.
The only difference now is that the rats are four-legged.
Great Plague of 1665-1666 How did London respond to it?
Remember it all started with rats out of control:
Great Plague of 1665-1666 How did London respond to it?
National Archives ^ | Indeterminate | National Archives, London
Posted on 3/28/2020, 2:12:17 PM by SmokingJoe
This was the worst outbreak of plague in England since the black death of 1348. London lost roughly 15% of its population. While 68,596 deaths were recorded in the city, the true number was probably over 100,000. Other parts of the country also suffered.
The earliest cases of disease occurred in the spring of 1665 in a parish outside the city walls called St Giles-in-the-Fields. The death rate began to rise during the hot summer months and peaked in September when 7,165 Londoners died in one week.
Rats carried the fleas that caused the plague. They were attracted by city streets filled with rubbish and waste, especially in the poorest areas.
Those who could, including most doctors, lawyers and merchants, fled the city. Charles II and his courtiers left in July for Hampton Court and then Oxford. Parliament was postponed and had to sit in October at Oxford, the increase of the plague being so dreadful. Court cases were also moved from Westminster to Oxford.
The Lord Mayor and aldermen (town councillors) remained to enforce the Kings orders to try and stop the spread of the disease. The poorest people remained in London with the rats and those people who had the plague. Watchmen locked and kept guard over infected houses. Parish officials provided food. Searchers looked for dead bodies and took them at night to plague pits for burial.
All trade with London and other plague towns was stopped. The Council of Scotland declared that the border with England would be closed. There were to be no fairs or trade with other countries. This meant many people lost their jobs from servants to shoemakers to those who worked on the River Thames.
You mean the Rats will switch their convention from Milwaukee to New Orleans?
It should be noted that Harry was a Democrat.
Send the rats to China.
Theyz considered good eatin there.
They’re why I love PCP air rifles.........
Rats, fleas, yrsinia pestis rises again.
The city has always been loaded with Leftists - nothing new.
Josie Wales agrees.
No need, the snakes , coyotes and owls will be there shortly. Coyotes have already been starting to move in there for a while now.
No, in that humid air the stench of dying rats in the walls would be horrendous. They don’t dry up and mummify down here.
I thought the title was about the Dems.
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