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Asante
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Today, 40 years ago, Smallpox was eradicated worldwide. 1
#26657039 - 05/08/20 10:02 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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One extinction we can pride ourselves in.
it was bigger than the Cold War

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Re: Today, 40 years ago, Smallpox was eradicated worldwide. [Re: Asante]
#26657126 - 05/08/20 10:38 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Sad it's only been 40 years. In 1670 the conquistadors brought smallpox to Constantinople. In 1715 the Turks learned about variolation, by 1720 the outbreak was under control.
Meanwhile across the pond, over half the population of Boston was infected and rioting over smallpox inoculations.
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Re: Today, 40 years ago, Smallpox was eradicated worldwide. [Re: stubb] 1
#26657495 - 05/08/20 01:41 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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For those who have not done so, read the vook sometimes brilliant by larry brilliant. The guy who helped eradicate smallpox was an avid psychedelics usrr and close friends with wavy gravy
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Re: Today, 40 years ago, Smallpox was eradicated worldwide. [Re: morrowasted]
#26657536 - 05/08/20 01:56 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I hope that one day we eradicate bigpox
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Re: Today, 40 years ago, Smallpox was eradicated worldwide. [Re: Patlal] 3
#26657541 - 05/08/20 02:00 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I remember reading a story about how they forcibly vaccinated the last tribe that had been resisting the vaccine. The leader of the tribe ended up thanking the doctors for doing that.
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Re: Today, 40 years ago, Smallpox was eradicated worldwide. [Re: koods]
#26657966 - 05/08/20 05:31 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Trump was probably right when he said this(covid-19) would go away then
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Re: Today, 40 years ago, Smallpox was eradicated worldwide. [Re: bodhisatta]
#26657977 - 05/08/20 05:34 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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jeezus
that poor girl
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Re: Today, 40 years ago, Smallpox was eradicated worldwide. [Re: koods]
#26658481 - 05/08/20 08:47 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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koods said: I remember reading a story about how they forcibly vaccinated the last tribe that had been resisting the vaccine. The leader of the tribe ended up thanking the doctors for doing that.
That was the tribes autism speaking for them.
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Re: Today, 40 years ago, Smallpox was eradicated worldwide. [Re: Niffla]
#26659122 - 05/09/20 03:27 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Niffla said: jeezus
that poor girl 
Can you imagine that the USSR went "we can eradicate this, lets mobilize the West and DO THIS for all humanity"?
We're close to ending Leprosy and Polio is possible too.
We are a genocidal species, lets genocide some pathogens!
TOTAL WAR on infectious disease.
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