# Coronavirus Ratpocalypse

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-ratpocalypse/851759>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-ratpocalypse/851759 "2020-04-14T12:24:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-ratpocalypse/851759/21 "2020-04-21T20:51:43Z")

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And then there are the sea turtles.

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**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-ratpocalypse/851759/22 "2020-04-21T21:05:41Z")

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> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> I once had a professor list out the 10 plagues of Egypt. If you look at them with a reasonably open mind and an understanding of how historical events would have been documented at the time (there were no real prohibitions against historians making history interesting), they actually start looking a lot like a rational cascade of events: unusually big red algae bloom has some effect creating a highly favorable habitat for breeding frogs, the massive numbers of frogs die off leading to a feast for scavengers and flies, the livestock get sick from the algae water & festering frog corpses, etc… It’d be fun to take a look at the world today and write a biblical saga about it.

Lol, someone watched Yul Brynner in The Ten Commandments.

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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-ratpocalypse/851759/23 "2020-04-21T23:53:48Z")

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Rats won’t catch CV from kitties if cat-owners are as cautious as a century ago: [During the 1918 Flu Epidemic, Pet Parents Put Masks on Their Cats](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pets-during-1918-influenza-epidemic)

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-ratpocalypse/851759/24 "2020-04-22T00:07:47Z")

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> [@RioRico](#):
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> Rats won’t catch CV from kitties if cat-owners are as cautious as a century ago: [During the 1918 Flu Epidemic, Pet Parents Put Masks on Their Cats](https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pets-during-1918-influenza-epidemic)

[Already on it](https://jpost.com/international/pets-outfitted-with-makeshift-masks-to-protect-them-from-coronavirus-617806).

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