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Starving, angry and cannibalistic: America's rats are getting desperate amid coronavirus pandemic
NBC "News" ^ | April 13, 2020 | Dartunorro Clark

Posted on 05/26/2020 6:37:49 PM PDT by absalom01

America's rats are being hit hard by the coronavirus.

As millions of Americans shelter indoors to combat the deadly virus, which has claimed over 21,000 U.S. lives, many businesses — including restaurants and grocery stores — have closed or limited operations, cutting off many rodents' main sources for food. On deserted streets across the country, rats are in dire survival mode, experts say.

"If you take rats that have been established in the area or somebody's property and they're doing well, the reason they're doing well is because they're eating well," Bobby Corrigan, an urban rodentologist, told NBC News. "Ever since coronavirus broke out, not a single thing has changed with them, because someone's doing their trash exactly the same in their yard as they've always done it — poorly."

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; History; Humor; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: ccpvirus; coronavirus; covid19; democrats; demonrats; dummycrats; kungflu; moogoogaipandemic; rats; whpc; wuhanvirus
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My bad. I thought at first that this was about the White House Press Corps.
1 posted on 05/26/2020 6:37:49 PM PDT by absalom01
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Seemed to me it was about the “‘Justice’ Democrats”, never mind the party in general.


2 posted on 05/26/2020 6:41:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: absalom01

Good way to get rid of rats.


3 posted on 05/26/2020 6:41:13 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: absalom01

You’re not alone.
I thought it was about the DNC and the RAT congress.....
Their “Plan “ (impeachment) failed and it looks like their “Plan B” (the plandemic) is failing as well. So cannibalism and desperate measures must surely be on their minds.


4 posted on 05/26/2020 6:42:39 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: absalom01

The jokes will right themselves on this thread.


5 posted on 05/26/2020 6:44:44 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: absalom01

Only the left would be concerned their sewer dwelling, garbage eating, disease ifested brothers.


6 posted on 05/26/2020 6:44:57 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: absalom01
I agree...the rats are snarling


7 posted on 05/26/2020 6:45:01 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: absalom01

Ratshot. Volunteers who know how to shoot.

Fun and useful. Those things carry disease. Remember disease? It can kill you, or worse.


8 posted on 05/26/2020 6:46:03 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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Quick, put them on welfare and register them to vote. < /DNC outreach>


9 posted on 05/26/2020 6:46:53 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: lgjhn23

I’ve enjoying the drubbing that Kayleigh McEnany dishes out to the press rats on the daily, I have to admit.


10 posted on 05/26/2020 6:47:40 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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The liberals are worried about rats?


11 posted on 05/26/2020 6:47:49 PM PDT by caver
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To: SaxxonWoods

Never wound a rat. It will just crawl into the tighest possible space to die, and stink the place up even worse than when it was alive.

Ya gots to make sure you have a good sight picture.


12 posted on 05/26/2020 6:49:43 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Pic is worth a thousand words:
Vile, demonic Botoxian from the pit of hell....it’s violent and “diseased”


13 posted on 05/26/2020 6:51:32 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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As millions of Americans shelter indoors to combat the deadly virus

Deadly virus? Yes, people have died from it. But the *death rate*? Or more importantly, the death rate for people *without" preexisting health problems?

Deadly? Your drinking water disinfected with chloramine is deadly to people with impaired kidney function. Peanuts are deadly to people with allergies. Pollen is deadly for people with asthma.

Maybe we should no longer disinfect our water, or grow peanuts.
Or allow anyone outside....oh wait we've already been doing that.

14 posted on 05/26/2020 6:59:55 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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And Hattori Hanzo said, “ They must be big rats!”


15 posted on 05/26/2020 7:21:15 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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due to the closed restaurants around here the rats are wandering into our apt complex looking for food. Rat traps all around the outside areas of entry, gates stop the cars not the hungry critters. Even saw a coyote at the park last week.


16 posted on 05/26/2020 7:41:03 PM PDT by Jolla
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Stage 7, 8 and 9 of TDS. Wait til they lose the election.


17 posted on 05/26/2020 7:53:44 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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All these years man has been laboring to build a better mousetrap. Who knew they would eat each other?! 🐁
18 posted on 05/26/2020 7:58:30 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: absalom01
many businesses — including restaurants and grocery stores — have closed or limited operations, cutting off many rodents' main sources for food.

Right, that's the problem with restaurants and grocery stores closing and throwing millions out of work - the rats go hungry. How many pieces has NBC done on the economic impact of these shutdowns on human beings?
19 posted on 05/26/2020 8:02:38 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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We had a brush fire about ten years ago, and that winter, the rats were EVERYWHERE.

We improvised, adapted, and overcame, but now, I’m known as “Matarata, el asesino de ratas” in these parts.


20 posted on 05/26/2020 8:10:45 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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