“Virgin field epidemics never infect everyone exposed. That was true of measles in Mexico during the Spanish Conquest period, and it was true of the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, which infected about 35% of the wo”
What, ain’t you woke? European diseases wiped out 90% of the native population of the Americas prior to serious colonization. There is a reason every country in the western hemisphere speaks a European language and not a native one.
How’s your Chinese?
My wild-***ed guess is that the real number of CV19 fatalities in China is @ 10 million, +/-5 million, and the year is young.
This is the end of Chinese Communist dreams of grandeur. They'll be lucky to be in power ten years from now.
excuse me, but it wasn’t 90% European. Hemorrhagic fever was big in pre-colonial indian populations, as were more than a dozen jungle fever and other assorted zoologic pathogens. Caused, similar to China, and, for instance, Amazonians now, by clearing fields for ag. Former Wandering/gathering groups of usually less than 60 joined larger groups to farm, increasing chances of human contact with animal bacteria and viruseseses, and each other.
“Diseases that were probably present in pre-Columbian America included American leishmaniasis, American trypanosomiasis (Chaga’s disease), roundworms, pinworms, tapeworm, treponematosis, tuberculosis, arthritis, cancer, endocrine disorders, dysentery, pneumonia, rickettsial and viral fevers, goiter, and pinta.”
Although New World indigenous disease was mostly of the chronic and episodic kind, Old World diseases were largely acute and epidemic. Different populations were affected at different times and suffered varying rates of mortality.19 Diseases such as treponemiasis and tuberculosis were already present in the New World, along with diseases such as tularemia, giardia, rabies, amebic dysentery, hepatitis, herpes, pertussis, and poliomyelitis, although the prevalence of almost all of these was probably low in any given group
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071659/