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29 March 2013, 22:32
and once plague appeared it was also not uncommon to wall up entire families inside their houses until no sign of life remained, then burn the house!
Over here smallpox, cholera and Yellow Fever were our big killers. Until the advent of modern drugs it was expected that 50% of all new immigrants would die within their first year in North America, espically in the southern regions of the U.S.
It was not unusual for entire cities to be quarenteened during more severe pandemics.
As late as 1878 Memphis TN was quarenteened during a Yellow Fever epidemic, sorrounded by Militia with orders to shoot anyone attempting to leave the city.
At that time they were not aware theat misquitoes carried the disease, or what carried most of the other pandemic diseases.
Was anyone aware that the last great Cholera pandemic began in 1961 and is still in effect world wide today. It is just not on your block at the moment.
Never fear, all those surging hordes comming through Heathrow and slipping in on small boats will bring it soon enough.
Over here they can simply walk across the border with it.
Over here smallpox, cholera and Yellow Fever were our big killers. Until the advent of modern drugs it was expected that 50% of all new immigrants would die within their first year in North America, espically in the southern regions of the U.S.
It was not unusual for entire cities to be quarenteened during more severe pandemics.
As late as 1878 Memphis TN was quarenteened during a Yellow Fever epidemic, sorrounded by Militia with orders to shoot anyone attempting to leave the city.
At that time they were not aware theat misquitoes carried the disease, or what carried most of the other pandemic diseases.
Was anyone aware that the last great Cholera pandemic began in 1961 and is still in effect world wide today. It is just not on your block at the moment.
Never fear, all those surging hordes comming through Heathrow and slipping in on small boats will bring it soon enough.
Over here they can simply walk across the border with it.
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Without it you can not tell who the idiots are.