This did happen and it was a brutal and vile act by any measure. I'm not sure about the extent of these acts but my father would know and I'll ask him. He's studied Canadian history for 60 years, especially the fur trade era.
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Didn't the English give the natives infected blankets. The journals of men at the time describe as much. I'll ask someone who has spent a lifetime scouring the times. If I'm wrong,then I'm wrong.
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When I visted New York last year you guys passed mumps onto me. So according to some of the theorys I can expect an apology then.
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Seedy Sid is using seedy sources...
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Was germ theory even a thing at that time?

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No, probably not. Let’s not forget the Vikings who cane here first and the other entrepreneurs who cane seeking fortune.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1483570 All the way back to the 1400s. Most latter settlements claim the native encampments were abandoned when they came across them.
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Late 1400s lol
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Oddly enough John Jacob Astor singlehandedly helped start the wars against most of the plains tribes and though a 'christian' he was descended from members of [protected religious group] of Bavaria.
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Wow, check out where this whole myth came from. A communist professor from the University of Colorado in 1991, Ward Churchill. An activist radical of the left. I rest my case! https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/plag/5240451.0001.009/--did-the-us-army-distribute-smallpox-blankets-to-indians?rgn=main;view=fulltext …
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I remember Ward Churchill. Guy called 9/11 victims, “little Eichmanns”
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Realizing that blankets used by sick people could make other people sick isn't germ theory. And it did happen on purpose back then.
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