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By going back and meeting them, you just got them sick even earlier.
So show up in a biohazard suit.
Yeah, because people in 1700s would know why you're wearing that, and not attack you for being a witch.
A 16th century native American would think this is normal?
A hazmat suit would be such a foreign concept to them, I sincerely doubt their conclusion would be witch.
I would have to be carrying disease to spread it
Even if you aren't carrying any diseases, the fact remains that you are carrying germs that are completely foreign to their ecosystem, and as such they possess no resistance to. Something harmless to you can be deadly to an immune system that never had to deal with it.
Come to think of it, I've never seen a time travel story that addressed this. I guess most writers either don't know or feel the story would be too tedious with that detail included.
"So I made a time machine and went back in time, gave them the flu and wiped out the entire human species." The End.
I guess when you put it like that, it sounds kinda stupid.
A more creative person than me might be able to do something with it
This could be a perfectly fine film, the thing is that plot isn't really that important. Pacing and emotional stakes are way more important. Add some characters and make the audience give a shit about them. Maybe also make the flu a metaphor for something, then you have a film.
Yes you have. You've heard of covid, right? Whole world stopping pandemic about 5 years ago. Remember that?
That's what you just described.
Covid was a time travel story?
Would not be the dumbest conspiracy to come out of the pandemic.
There's a huge difference between the flu which kills 5% and smallpox which kills 95%.
If all foreign germs were equally deadly then European colonizers would have all died from Native American germs.
Yeah, but the Europeans were also bringing diseases on top of that. And make no mistake, plenty of Europeans died pointlessly trying to colonize the new world. It was a harsh and brutal affair and if not for the whole genocide thing I'd have felt sorry for them.