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To: pepsi_junkie

It’s a wonderful read, I think you will enjoy it!

73 posted on 05/06/2019 7:23:49 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)

To: null and void

Just a thought, a forty day sea voyage is little different from a forty day quarantine.

What diseases could they have brought in a ten hour flight?

Paging Ebola Nurse Kaci Hickox...

77 posted on 05/06/2019 7:32:10 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)

To: null and void

Thanks. I looked it up, my memory was off. He wrote for Discover and the column was from 1992, not the 80s. But hey, nearly 30 years ago anyway so I did okay remembering as much as I did. Here it is online for those interested:

Discover Magazine: The Arrow of Disease

He does indeed make the linkage to domestication of animals though not with much in the way of evidence, more of a conclusion he's drawing based on some other relevant material. But basically he's implying that the indians simply didn't have diseases because diseases all come from animals. And of course Europeans were riddled with them because ... animals. I'd like more evidence before I just buy into that. Maybe with a whole book to make the case he's able to put more behind it.

84 posted on 05/06/2019 7:46:57 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)

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