Indigenous peoples who are going to be the labor force here are dying like flies from multiple causes. And these people make great slaves or whatever, but they start dying quickly and in large numbers. The germ ctastrophe is, it's mind boggling science fiction, like twilight. So it's got all those elements that fascinate someone like me. But there's a little guilt in the fact that it's a holocost. In his book, the slave trade, author hugh thomas calls it a population collapse. There's never been anything like that.

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