Coronavirus Pandemic Brings Out Rats In Boston

Boston city councilors say the pandemic has made a disturbing rodent problem go from bad to worse.

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Trash piled up in Boston
Image via CBS Boston

Coronavirus pandemic brings out rats in Boston.

In a problem all too familiar to many Quincy residents, the Allston and Brighton neighborhoods in Boston have been overrun by rats.

A key suspected contributing factor to the rat population explosion is a considerable uptick of food refuse and especially food scraps laden takeout packaging in area residents’ trash given that many people are dining in given the COVID-19 pandemic.

Construction underway in Quincy Center
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive file photo

And as is also all too familiar to Quincy residents, this rat population explosion is further viewed as fertilized by a massive uptick in construction in these Boston neighborhoods.

That and perhaps less than aggressive rodent management efforts by developers to duly mitigate how their project sites can give rise to a massive increase in rodent residents before the anticipated influx of human tenants.

Further open to suspecting was a likely less than rapid full court press response by the City of Boston.

Way too small a rat trap at Quincy City Hall?
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Boston officials claim that active rodent reduction efforts are (now, ed.) underway to address this public health hazard; however, those in the know know that knocking down population explosions of four-legged rats can take many months to years to accomplish regardless of what two-legged ones in City Halls might say – especially when prophylactic efforts could as well as should have been more aggressive in the first place.

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