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[โ€“] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

germs that are completely foreign to their ecosystem, and as such they possess no resistance to

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.

[โ€“] Jomega@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.