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Sunday, February 20, 2022
A Royal PITA For The Narrative
Let us know when the penny drops, ma'am.
If the smallpox vaccines had "worked" anything near as poorly as the Kung Flu vaxx does, the entire planet would be unpopulated by human beings by now.
Almost like there's some sort of plan involved here...
Her Majesty could call to account the folks running the show. Variola has been with humans at least since we crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia to Alaska some 13,000+ years ago: if it was with us prior to that, it apparently didn't make the crossing, allowing both herd immunity and innate immunity to variola in Native Americans to dwindle - over a generation or two for herd immunity and over the millennia for innate immunity. That is if variola was with us before the crossing: if not, there was nothing to dwindle in the New World.
Nevertheless variola had spread throughout the Old World and was rife before the adventures of Christopher Columbus. Mortality was substantial with variola minor, and a great majority died in case of the less common variola major; however survivors of either form had lifelong immunity to both. Smallpox scarring of the face in survivors was so common as to be considered the norm. The "pretty" in the nursery rhyme "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" ""I'm going a-milking sir" she said" was attributed to the fact milkmaids were mostly free of the disfigurement. It was milkmaids who pointed out to Dr. Edward Jenner that they did not get smallpox because they had cowpox. Jenner instituted the safe practice of inoculation with cowpox, superseding the prior variolation, inoculation with smallpox scab material which ran a very substantial risk of full-scale smallpox. Indeed the word vaccine is derived from Latin vacca (“cow”).
When Europeans showed up in the New World, the natives had a 95+% mortality to all forms of smallpox: unplanned Lebensraum!
Her Majesty could call to account the folks running the show.
ReplyDeleteVariola has been with humans at least since we crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia to Alaska some 13,000+ years ago: if it was with us prior to that, it apparently didn't make the crossing, allowing both herd immunity and innate immunity to variola in Native Americans to dwindle - over a generation or two for herd immunity and over the millennia for innate immunity. That is if variola was with us before the crossing: if not, there was nothing to dwindle in the New World.
Nevertheless variola had spread throughout the Old World and was rife before the adventures of Christopher Columbus. Mortality was substantial with variola minor, and a great majority died in case of the less common variola major; however survivors of either form had lifelong immunity to both. Smallpox scarring of the face in survivors was so common as to be considered the norm. The "pretty" in the nursery rhyme "Where are you going, my pretty maid?" ""I'm going a-milking sir" she said" was attributed to the fact milkmaids were mostly free of the disfigurement. It was milkmaids who pointed out to Dr. Edward Jenner that they did not get smallpox because they had cowpox. Jenner instituted the safe practice of inoculation with cowpox, superseding the prior variolation, inoculation with smallpox scab material which ran a very substantial risk of full-scale smallpox. Indeed the word vaccine is derived from Latin vacca (“cow”).
When Europeans showed up in the New World, the natives had a 95+% mortality to all forms of smallpox: unplanned Lebensraum!
Why couldn't it take out Markle instead?
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