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Re:Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, th... by alwillis on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @05:15AM (#16419175)
“The spread of disease from European contact was not always accidental. Europeans arriving in the Americas had long been exposed to the diseases, attaining a measure of immunity, and thus were not as severely affected by them. Therefore, disease could be an effective biological weapon.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_ep...

The quote is from the section Disease as a weapon against Native Americans

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Re:Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, th... by dmix on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:15PM (#16424271)
Just because it was used on a few isolated occasions, but even then it was already well advancing on it's own. It was already a natural phenomenon.

The westerns saw the absolute devastation by their mere presences was causing unintentionally and occasionally decided to use it to their advantage purposefully...but I highly doubt that absent those occasions that we would have seen much different outcomes.

Absent total non-contact for the next two centuries...

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Re:Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, th... by jdminhbg on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @10:58AM (#16421264)
The second two sentences in that quote do nothing to support the first. It's a total non sequitur.
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