are you sure you werent reading a thread here ;-)
Because I saw the same thing earlier today here.
rats taking over NOLA. Seems like a good time to try to kill them.
New Orleans streets are overtaken by RATS as tourists stay away from the city and Louisiana is hit by 3,315 coronavirus cases and 137 deaths
NOLA Mayor full of blame game and NO responsibility.
I did find it interesting that the DM included this bit of history - that we’ve oft talked about, here, on these threads...
..Worrying parallels are being drawn between the Mardi Gras and the 1918 parade in Philadelphia which has been touted as one of the main causes for the state’s spread of Spanish Flu, which devastated the area more than most and cost 16,000 lives in Philadelphia and wiped out about a third of the world’s population.
In 1918, when World War I was coming to a close, US cities held Liberty Loan parades bringing in thousands of revellers.
When the Spanish Flu pandemic ramped up, St. Louis canceled its parade but Philadelphia decided to plough on with its celebration in the city of 1.7 million people.
The virus had reached Philadelphia on September 19, 1918, infecting 600 sailors within a matter of days.
The parade took place on September 28, with 200,000 people in attendance.
Just three days later, there were 635 new cases in Philadelphia and every bed in the city’s hospitals was filled, according to UPenn.
Six weeks later, 12,000 people had died and there were 47,000 cases.
By the end of the pandemic, at least 16,000 had died and more than half a million had fallen ill.
By contrast, Saint Louis’ death toll reached 700.
I think the conspiracy theorists may be some of the folks who get on a cruise on March 7.
In the zerohedge article it said they kept using the gym even after the first cases were publicly announced on board.
They just don’t believe the virus thing is real—and nobody is going to convince them it is.