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tenderfoot

(8,982 posts) Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:33 AM Oct 2021

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Betty Bowers... 😂

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Betty Bowers... 😂 (Original Post) tenderfoot Oct 2021 OP

Who says they are ignorant of history? cyclonefence Oct 2021 #1

This is playing on local radio as I type malaise Oct 2021 #2

Thank You! Tommymac Oct 2021 #6

Need this one too: johnp3907 Oct 2021 #7

Nice malaise Oct 2021 #16

K&R LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2021 #3

Drum roll. Ta Da! eom LittleGirl Oct 2021 #4

A joke about smallpox - which was eradicated with a vaccine lame54 Oct 2021 #5

Smallpox was not the only bio-weapon loosed on the Native populations... Wounded Bear Oct 2021 #10

More native Americans died of the common cold and the flu than any other cause. There was no Martin68 Oct 2021 #12

Except it was 1492 and nobody knew about germs at the time FakeNoose Oct 2021 #13

In 1620 the Pilgrims thought it was Gods judgement. plimsoll Oct 2021 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author plimsoll Oct 2021 #15

Ibn Sina aka Avicenna, had already published on basic germ theory by 1025, almost 500 years earlier. Celerity Oct 2021 #18

Wow, that one will leave a mark! 2Gingersnaps Oct 2021 #8

No kidding! SheltieLover Oct 2021 #9

This is ironic, hilarious, and horribly true. Martin68 Oct 2021 #11

Not a single one of them will get it. dchill Oct 2021 #17

Indeed, it is historically accurate N/T Moebym Oct 2021 #19

cyclonefence

(5,167 posts)

1. Who says they are ignorant of history?

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:46 AM

Oct 2021

malaise

(298,011 posts)

2. This is playing on local radio as I type

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:49 AM

Oct 2021

Tommymac

(7,334 posts)

6. Thank You!

Reply to malaise (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:43 PM

Oct 2021

Chris would have fit right in with today's Rethugs. Bet he and Madison would have been best beer buds.

johnp3907

(4,341 posts)

7. Need this one too:

Reply to malaise (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 01:03 PM

Oct 2021

https://m.

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malaise

(298,011 posts)

16. Nice

Reply to johnp3907 (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:49 PM

Oct 2021

Thank you

LetMyPeopleVote

(182,093 posts)

3. K&R

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:54 AM

Oct 2021

LittleGirl

(8,999 posts)

4. Drum roll. Ta Da! eom

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:31 PM

Oct 2021

lame54

(40,108 posts)

5. A joke about smallpox - which was eradicated with a vaccine

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 12:41 PM

Oct 2021

Wounded Bear

(64,647 posts)

10. Smallpox was not the only bio-weapon loosed on the Native populations...

Reply to lame54 (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 01:32 PM

Oct 2021

possibly the best well-known, but hardly the only.

Martin68

(28,080 posts)

12. More native Americans died of the common cold and the flu than any other cause. There was no

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #10)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 01:49 PM

Oct 2021

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reason to "weaponize" anything, just communicate with them face to face without wearing masks. They had no natural immunity.

FakeNoose

(42,435 posts)

13. Except it was 1492 and nobody knew about germs at the time

Reply to Martin68 (Reply #12)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:09 PM

Oct 2021

They thought it was bad luck or witchcraft.

plimsoll

(1,690 posts)

14. In 1620 the Pilgrims thought it was Gods judgement.

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #13)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:12 PM

Oct 2021

They know what had happened, and viewed it as predestination.

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plimsoll This message was self-deleted by its author.

Celerity

(54,895 posts)

18. Ibn Sina aka Avicenna, had already published on basic germ theory by 1025, almost 500 years earlier.

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #13)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 05:39 PM

Oct 2021

His The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi't-Tibb) was used as the standard medical textbook in the Islamic world and Europe up to the 18th century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna

2Gingersnaps

(1,000 posts)

8. Wow, that one will leave a mark!

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 01:05 PM

Oct 2021

SheltieLover

(81,731 posts)

9. No kidding!

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 01:31 PM

Oct 2021

Martin68

(28,080 posts)

11. This is ironic, hilarious, and horribly true.

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 01:47 PM

Oct 2021

dchill

(42,660 posts)

17. Not a single one of them will get it.

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 05:24 PM

Oct 2021

The joke, I mean.

Moebym

(1,033 posts)

19. Indeed, it is historically accurate N/T

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Tue Oct 12, 2021, 01:20 AM

Oct 2021

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