[Windflier]

Scary stuff.

[Palio di Siena]

Ashes to ashes
All fall down.

[Jonty30]

If you’re not going to clean the poop off the sidewalks, things happen.

[Fiji Hill]

The rats here in Southern California are the same species of rat that carried the bubonic plague in Europe. They love the dead fronds hanging from the trunks of palm trees that provide a habitat similar to the thatched roofs of medieval European houses.

[i_robot73]

Just wall it off so it doesn’t spread out of Mexifornia & we’ll be good

[southernindymom]

Yes it is but they get what they deserve, IMO. I hope all of the good conservatives get out for awhile and then once the dust has settled, go back, clean it up and make a change for the better. The only problem is these idiots tend to travel about and they can spread it.

[eyeamok]

I’m surprised some enterprising conservative with a bunch of money hasn’t turned this into a Tourist Attraction.

Come see Progressive Row, be a witness to the Beginning of the Plague in Modern Society. Hell set up Betting lines in Vegas as to when it will Happen and how bad it will be. Make Garcetti and the City Council STARS!!!

[Bonemaker]

"...And we now have somewhere between 12 and 20 million rats in Los Angeles..." And that's before counting the democ

RATS

!

[central_va]

somewhere between 12 and 20 million rats in Los Angeles

The two legged or four legged kind?

[Bon of Babble]

And we now have somewhere between 12 and 20 million rats in Los Angeles..

And the biggest rat is mayor Eric "yoga pants" Garcetti.

[trisham]

Indeed.

[Pajamajan]

Keep voting democrat California.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Surprise,surprise,surprise!

[Sivad]

Those poor souls in downtown LA should move their
homeless encampments to cleaner areas like Beverly Hills
and Bel Air. Let’s hear from the Democratic presidential
candidates on the matter.....

[Billthedrill]

Scary indeed. It isn't as if we weren't warned. LA police coming down with typhus should have sent up flares the size of a Fourth of July show.

The good news is that plague is readily treatable by antibiotics once diagnosed. So what happens when the antibiotics run out? Take a look, for example, at what the CDC says about treatment (scroll down a bit). That little notation "not widely available in the United States" is a clue that maybe we're not as equipped to address a disease breakout as we assume.

Plague isn't transmissible directly between human beings in the early stages of an epidemic. It becomes so when it proceeds to the pneumonic form and is blasted into the air by coughing. Note from the World Health Organization: "the pneumonic form is invariably fatal unless treated early." Serious stuff.

[Jane Austen]

Sure is scary. Have friends who have complained about rats in San Francisco, and the homeless situation there is getting worse.

[Jane Austen]

Sure is scary. Have friends who have complained about rats in San Francisco, and the homeless situation there is getting worse.