• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    germs that are completely foreign to their ecosystem, and as such they possess no resistance to

    There’s a huge difference between the flu which kills 5% and smallpox which kills 95%.

    If all foreign germs were equally deadly then European colonizers would have all died from Native American germs.

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      Yeah, but the Europeans were also bringing diseases on top of that. And make no mistake, plenty of Europeans died pointlessly trying to colonize the new world. It was a harsh and brutal affair and if not for the whole genocide thing I’d have felt sorry for them.