As the rat infestation in New York City has gotten so out of hand, and as economic conditions worsen both in the city and across the nation, NYC is now offering “rat tours” as part of a new trend and tourist attraction that highlights the rats as a real-life exhibit.
As explained by the New York Post, ‘Kenny Bollwerk maps out late-night rat routes near Rockefeller Center and in Flushing and Sunnyside, Queens. Luke Miller, owner of Real New York Tours, adds a stop to Columbus Park near Chinatown for tourists with a yen for vermin.’
They are like the new celebs in New York City with all the press they are getting.
Miller said
Rats are like a New York City mascot. People want to see it for themselves.
Bollwerk added
Last December The WinePress highlighted how the rat infestation had gotten so out of control the city began incentivizing residents to kill the rats, and turn in their carcasses for a small cash reward. At the same time as the cost of living continues to only increase some New Yorkers could be seen cooking up rats rotisserie-style on the streets.
But it appears the city has decided to embrace them and make money from the spectacle that they have now become.
The NYP goes on to write: ‘Bollwerk’s free walking tours of rat hotspots include busted-up sidewalks and construction sites where the rodents squeeze themselves under fences and through sidewalk cracks, and restaurants in Sunnyside and Forest Hills where garbage is piled high, and abandoned outdoor dining shacks provide rodent refuge.’
Nearly 10,000 viewers tune in on TikTok to watch his virtual tours live.
However, “Rat Tok” has still advocated that people report some of these infestations that have overtaken businesses, which are a clear risk and threat to people’s health.
Commentors still enjoy watching the rat race on TikTok. One fan who came to visit one of the hotspots praised the venue:
I loved it ever since I started watching it. It made me want to go there and actually see the setting and the scenery and, you know, ‘What’s behind this corner? What’s behind that corner?’
It was awesome.
RatTok fan Patrick Norris of St. Louis, Missouri, said
Aaron Lidwell, another spectator, told the NYP: “It’s one of those things you just have to see.”
In a separate report The Guardian reported that Bollwerk said, “I was like: ‘Damn, this is bad.’”
People are walking by, there’s rats running across people’s feet, there’s piles of trash on the sidewalk.
It’s crazy how much this brings people together.
I’m scared of them. Any time one comes running at me I jump. I don’t want them anywhere near me.
He added
The NYP noted as well: ‘There were over 60,000 reports of rat activity citywide in 2022 — a shocking 102 percent increase from 2021, according to Health Department data. So far this year, there have been over 39,000 reports of rat activity.’
Of course, rats can carry a plethora of diseases with them, and it was rats that caused the Black Plague via fleas that hitched a ride on the rodents, eliminating around 25 million people in Europe by 1351.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:5
Ah, but Covid is going to kill you, so mask-up, get juiced-up, and go run and hide: but take pictures and selfies with the rats, as they infect everything run in between your feet, and go where you sleep and eat.
If you could sum up the sorry state the U.S. is in right now, this is a good picture of it. People being overtaken by rats, trash, and filth, and people actually embracing it. Welcome to the New America.
This passage is not dispensationally correct but it is still befitting for instruction in righteousness:
They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 66:17
Moreover, as we all know, rat and mice infestations bring deadly diseases with them. But hey, like I said, be very afraid of Covid, but you can go take duck-lip selfies with the rats in the city!
This story comes to mind:
[6] But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. [7] And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. [8] They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither. [9] And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. [10] Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people. [11] So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. [12] And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven. [4] Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. [5] Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land. [6] Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed? 1 Samuel 5:6-12, 6:4-6
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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The perfect way to start off the fall of the U.S. Empire, and what better place to start off the worst of it than in New York – The Empire State.
New York City was the capitalist, business, and American Dream bastion and the first thing people thought of when they heard the word “America.” Now, it’s a rat infested nightmare and a trailer of things to come for the rest of America. God’s judgement is just, chilling, and also beautiful and gives me peace of mind.
America’s days are numbered!
And if anybody thinks other states like Florida, Texas, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, or any other state (conservative ones included) won’t be affected by God’s judgement, they’re fooling themselves!
If it’s not rats and liberal devil possessed heathens, then guess what: God will use other methods to destroy the other states.
Whether it’s Direct Energy Weapons, Weather Manipulation Weapons, Man Made Disasters, Economic Collapse, Increased Crime and Unrest of any sort, or any other tools Jesus will use, America is Done!
Mice are a blessing in disguise. The lord sent some to my household as part of my chastening, and because of that, I didn’t have much time to sin- my days were spent killing the mice. Thankfully, I was able to overcome the sin.
NYC is known for the sluggards and party folks- either they’ll become proactive in killing the mice ( giving up their sins and pleasure in the process), or they’ll continue to party and become consumed by the mice.
That’s a very good testimony about the Lord’s chastening.
As for the sluggards and partygoing heathens, like the old saying goes: they made their bed now they can sleep in it!