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minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 years agoI have a suspicion that if it weren’t for all the disease the colonizers would have destroyed them anyway. Also nobody intentionally made them deathly ill? Smallpox blankets.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoYou’re not wrong. However, it is worth pointing out that the documented “smallpox blankets” stuff happened in the 1700s and 1800s, which was already a century or two after the continent had been greatly depopulated by diseases spread unintentionally.
minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoGood point, I didn’t think about that.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoMeasles, syphillis, rubella, mumps, chickenpox even. chickenpox is especially dangerous to adults who never had it.
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I have a suspicion that if it weren’t for all the disease the colonizers would have destroyed them anyway.
Also nobody intentionally made them deathly ill? Smallpox blankets.
You’re not wrong.
However, it is worth pointing out that the documented “smallpox blankets” stuff happened in the 1700s and 1800s, which was already a century or two after the continent had been greatly depopulated by diseases spread unintentionally.
Good point, I didn’t think about that.
Measles, syphillis, rubella, mumps, chickenpox even. chickenpox is especially dangerous to adults who never had it.
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