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rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

tsa posted:

Like something like 90 percent of the deaths were unavoidable so long as Europeans existed on the continent
It was basically guaranteed when all large domesticated animals that were useful ended up in the old world.

Imagine if they'd been split evenly, then you'd have pandemics going both ways.

90% of the world, just gone.

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rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
The Nazis intentionally created the conditions that lead to the spread of typhus, knowing but not caring about the results. The spread of smallpox into the new world was not by design, nor under the control of a people who did not know what causes the disease in the first place, nor did they create the conditions that lead to that susceptibility of disease (total isolation). Calling that genocide makes just as much sense as saying it was China that genocided Europe with the black death - it's totally absurd.

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