Sioux tribe rejects South Dakota governor request to remove Covid-19 checkpoints

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33. Wow, where did you hear a thing like that?

While his crew might have introduced the disease, the Carib tribe had absolutely no use for blankets.

The tactic was discussed in the Siege of Fort Pitt in 1763 but it is unknown if they tried to carry it out. For one thing, smallpox is an incredibly fragile virus that has to be maintained at a constant temperature and preferably encased in scab material to survive at all away from human tissue. Transporting blankets at that time would not have provided ideal temperature and humidity to deliver any live virus. The idea was a dreadful one and it most likely would never have worked.

Smallpox was used as a bio weapon in mediaeval times, bodies of the recently dead lobbed over city and castle walls via trebuchet, and that did work as long as the bodies were fresh.

So that blanket story is historical fiction, along with blaming the American tribes for introducing syphilis to Europe. Archaeology has discovered congenital syphilis in children entombed in Aplontis near Pompeii and in a monastery burial ground in England, far predating New World exploration. It's an old disease in Europe, they were just looking for it in the wrong places. It was centered in port cities and most people didn't live long enough for the tertiary disease to show up on their bones. Examining the teeth of children is where to find it, along with monastery burials when the order specialized in hospice care.