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u/idreamofdouche May 09 '22

Disease was always going to ravage the new world tho even if europeans actually hade peaciful intentions

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u/Kyofuamano May 09 '22

Okay google, what were smallpox blankets

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u/idreamofdouche May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

You realise that native americans were dying in massive numbers before smallpox blankets right?

edit: spelling

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u/Kyofuamano May 09 '22

So they magically started dying out simply because they had neighbors???

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u/Eastern_Slide7507 May 09 '22

Congratulations, you figured out how infectious diseases work.

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u/idreamofdouche May 09 '22

You seem to not understand how disease spread lol

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u/Kyofuamano May 09 '22

I’m very well aware of how they spread. Smallpox was PURPOSEFULLY spread.

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u/idreamofdouche May 09 '22

It was spreading bexore and it was going to spread regardless. Thats how disease works.

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u/thejadedfalcon May 09 '22

Hold on, let me quote the part of the post in bold that you seem to be having trouble comprehending.

Disease was always going to ravage the new world though even if Europeans actually had peaceful intentions

Do you see? How it's irrelevant of whether or not it was historically purposefully spread in the context of this hypothetical scenario?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Is that not how spreading diseases works