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RE: What I learnt this week 27: Shale's unsustainablity, The Fat One, Black Death Fake News, Dirty microwaves & Eternal Life!
"How many rats do you think were lingering around people close enough for fleas to simply hop from one to the other?"
Way more than you want to think about. There is a movie called "Rats" that is truly disturbing. There is currently a plague outbreak a lot closer to home, in the Southwest US.
It's actually quite surprising some of the footage I've seen with rat swarms coming out of barns and such, but for the most part it does seem far more reasonable that human-sucking fleas would have far more success, being constantly around other humans and the like. Rats don't typically lie around next to you by the fire reading scrolls to your kids!
This show was filmed mostly in NYC and they showed how you can poke a camera into any crack in the sidewalk or any void and they are just loaded with rats. And how the rats there have been found carrying almost every disease known to man, even like bot flies which are not supposed to exist in North America.