Sinistra delenda est. on Nostr: Not retards, the "smallpox blankets" era was long, _long_ before we realized the germ ...

Not retards, the "smallpox blankets" era was long, _long_ before we realized the germ theory of disease was correct.

Long before Jenner did his thing starting in 1796 with rigirious testing, and that was important since smallpox _on already filtered populations_ has a 30% death rate, and per Wikipedia was generally killing 10% of the world's population and 20% in urban areas back then.