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“The spread of disease from European contact was not always accidental. Europeans arriving in the Americas had long been exposed to the diseases, attaining a me
by alwillis 9y ago
“The spread of disease from European contact was not always accidental. Europeans arriving in the Americas had long been exposed to the diseases, attaining a measure of immunity, and thus were not as severely affected by them. Therefore, disease could be an effective biological weapon.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_ep...
The quote is from the section Disease as a weapon against Native Americans
- jdminhbg 9y agoThe second two sentences in that quote do nothing to support the first. It's a total non sequitur.
- dmix 9y agoJust because it was used on a few isolated occasions, but even then it was already well advancing on it's own. It was already a natural phenomenon. The westerns saw the absolute devastation by their mere presences was causing unintentionally and occasionally decided to use it to their advantage purposefully...but I highly doubt that absent those occasions that we would have seen much different outcomes. Absent total non-contact for the next two centuries...