Credit where credit is due:
In the 1850's there was a Plague outbreak in San Fransisco's Chinatown.
It was detected early on by a local physician, who promptly reported it to City Hall, and recommended a rat catching program, quarantine, and general clean up of the area.
The city fathers refused to acknowledge that there was Plague in their fair city. It festered until the problem could no longer be ignored, and finally a cleanup of Chinatown was instituted.
But by then Plague had spread from the rats to the ground squirrel population. Now one can be exposed to the Plague anywhere in the western US.
Feel free to draw parallels to any more recent plagues...
“But by then Plague had spread from the rats to the ground squirrel population. Now one can be exposed to the Plague anywhere in the western US.”
Sometime in the mid 90’s I was shooting ground squirrels in my area to try and reduce their numbers. That particular summer their population seemed to explode. Anyone who has vegetable or fruit crops in an area where ground squirrels are located knows the devastation they can cause. They are somewhat of a challenge to shoot, because as soon as they see a threat, they tend to disappear into their burrow, woodpile, or where ever they have made their nest, therefore requiring the need to shoot them at a distance. That summer, on numerous occasions, I’d pick one or two off with a .22 and then walk over to ensure that I’d actually hit them rather than them having just disappeared into the woodpile. What I repeatedly found was a rodent teaming with dozens or hundreds of fleas which had eaten away at their fur or skin, causing large areas of the rodent to be not only hairless, but the areas where the hair should be had turned black! Back then I didn’t have easily available access to information regarding plague, but I just guessed that with those signs they probably were infected. It was SO disgusting and I almost felt sorry for the dang rodents having to live that way, and that I was doing them (and myself) a favor putting them out of their misery.
The hard thing was to keep my dogs away from them. The dogs loved to dig in the woodpiles or ground to try and catch them, as well as run to the spot immediately after I would take the shot, in hopes of finding a treat to eat. But the fleas were always around the nests too. I had to keep the dogs well treated with flea protection and I would always bury to rodent immediately after shooting it. It’s not hard to see how this disease could rapidly spread given the right conditions. And if the disease made the jump to a more virulent version, we could see another modern day large scale outbreak. The region where all this took place was southwest New Mexico, which does have recorded plague cases. Heading directly north from here one starts to enter various tribal reservations where many people live in impoverished conditions, ‘living with nature’, increasing the likely hood of the disease spreading to humans. It’s also the same areas where the Hantavirus made its largest show.
If some devious ‘true believers’ and supporters of Agenda 21 were so inclined, and had the expertise and labs like they do at Ft Detrick and other ‘black’ facilities, they could release a virulent/weaponised version of the plague here and it would be difficult to ascertain if it occurred naturally or was created.
I’ll just stick with picking off ground squirrels when the opportunity presents itself. They like to stand on the tallest thing around their nest area and let out repeated loud chirps. I like to joke with fellow shooters that in ground squirrel language, that piercing loud chirp translates to “shoot me!” “Shoot me!” “Shoot me!” Which I happily oblige them on.