The Plague was unheard of until we started letting millions of people into the country from 3rd world hellholes.
Lived in Albuquerque between Sandia Base and Kirkland in the 50’s. There were always bubonic plague warnings in Spring and Summer. Baby Rabbits were always cited as carriers.
This is nothing new.
The Chinese laborers imported for cheap labor brought in the Plague from China.
An American doctor detected the outbreak in San Fransisco’s Chinatown.
He reported it to the city, along with recommendations for quarantine and a rat catching program.
The San Fransisco city fathers and Governor Henry Gauge simply refused to believe that their was Plague in their fair city and state, and refused to do anything until it had already spread to the native ground squirrel population, and become uncontainable.
Any parallels you may wish to draw to, say, the AIDS epidemic are left as an exercise for the reader.
Wrong. The plague has been in the South-West for at least 3 decades. It’s now a treatable disease, so you don’t hear much about it.
The plague has been in the United States since the 1890s. It has nothing to do with illegals, and everything to do with infected rats coming off international trade ships at that time.