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Smallpox Blankets
Smallpox blankets were given to Native Americans intentionally by invading Europeans in an often successful attempt to deliberately infect them with this devastating disease. In the war of 1763 between England and France for control of North America, the British troops were asked, could it not be contrived to send the smallpox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? That's a direct quote. And wait a second, it's not done yet. Oh my god. Here's the time, bottoms up. It's just going to get worse.