1. A significant amount had 2. The same way most would: take blankets from smallpox patients. 3. From memory it can take up to 40 days for blankets used by smallpox patients during their shedding phase to become uninfected.
Sigh Most of the natives had sadly already died from smallpox. How did they know which blankets were infected pray tell? Also smallpox doesn’t last very long outside the human body.https://twitter.com/CaliAtheist/status/1159665563792113665 …
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Dr Stefan, I presume....
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How could they have been "intentionally spreading it" before they had a germ theory? When prevailing thought on sickness at the time was miasma theory. If they had intentionally been trying to spread it, they would have forcibly relocated them to white towns with outbreaks.
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The natives gave us the gift of syphilis, so there is that.
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Could have been a few nutcases that tried to do it on purpose. Doubt it was a majority.
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Remember that the Europeans did not know how germs worked until the mid 1800s/?
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Also germ theory was not a thing back then.
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Happy August 8 everybody.
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