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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by Nasrudith on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @05:35PM (#21208388)
I don't think that was even a lie - disease doesn't respect tidy social boundaries of guilt and innocence. Especially with unscreened blood at the time.
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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by anon1m0us on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @08:39PM (#21209768)
Yeah, I don't think it was a lie either. It was an expectation about the future. We worry about diseases jumping demographics all the time, sometimes even from one species to another.
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