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MLB All Star game TV ratings are in the dumpster !!!
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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4929836" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>In order to use blankets laced with smallpox they had to have someone who had the disease. Then they had to transport it to the Indians and give them the blankets by walking or riding a horse some distance. Assuming the Indians weren't hostile. There are just too many obstacles to this working but because one case happened, got attention of scholars, was passed around, it's assumed that evil white men did this all the time. And back then people wrote to each other all the time. It was the only means of communication outside of the spoken word, books, and limited newspaper readership. To only have one case documented says to me this wasn't a common practice. Not to mention the danger to the person bearing the blankets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 4929836, member: 24302"] In order to use blankets laced with smallpox they had to have someone who had the disease. Then they had to transport it to the Indians and give them the blankets by walking or riding a horse some distance. Assuming the Indians weren't hostile. There are just too many obstacles to this working but because one case happened, got attention of scholars, was passed around, it's assumed that evil white men did this all the time. And back then people wrote to each other all the time. It was the only means of communication outside of the spoken word, books, and limited newspaper readership. To only have one case documented says to me this wasn't a common practice. Not to mention the danger to the person bearing the blankets. [/QUOTE]
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