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To: Dog Gone
The Europeans may not have acquired a lot of new diseases in the New World but they were still dying from the old ones. Before and after Columbus, smallpox, typhus and the other killers were running hot through the major cities of Europe, Berlin, Lisbon, London, and others, sometimes killing as much as half of the population.

Even in the New World white mortality from these diseases was high, though not as high as the Indians'. Word of a small pox outbreak was feared nearly as much as rumor of Indian raids. It meant that some people were going to die.

78 posted on 05/30/2008 8:16:59 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: MARTIAL MONK
Even in the New World white mortality from these diseases was high, though not as high as the Indians'. Word of a small pox outbreak was feared nearly as much as rumor of Indian raids. It meant that some people were going to die.

I understand that, but that was then and this is now.

These people probably have nothing at all to contribute to our understanding of the world. By definition, they are primitive.

I don't really care whether they can avoid us for a couple hundred years or not, but eventually this planet will become totally civilized.

Whether we want to keep some pet humans under glass and feed them crickets is a decision the leftists will have to make.

81 posted on 05/30/2008 8:28:03 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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