Betty Bowers... 😂

[tenderfoot]

Link to tweet

[cyclonefence]

1. Who says they are ignorant of history?

[malaise]

2. This is playing on local radio as I type

[Tommymac]

6. Thank You!

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

[johnp3907]

7. Need this one too:

https://m.

&t=0h0m0s

[malaise]

16. Nice

Thank you

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. K&R

[LittleGirl]

4. Drum roll. Ta Da! eom

[lame54]

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

[Wounded Bear]

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

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

[Martin68]

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

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

[FakeNoose]

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

They thought it was bad luck or witchcraft.

[plimsoll]

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

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

[Celerity]

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

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]

8. Wow, that one will leave a mark!

[SheltieLover]

9. No kidding!

[Martin68]

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

[dchill]

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

The joke, I mean.

[Moebym]

19. Indeed, it is historically accurate N/T