Mushroom
Gold Member
In the late 1800s, blankets from smallpox patients were distributed to Native Americans in order to spread disease.
A commonly spread myth, and largely not true. Hell, you can not even get the time frame correct.
It actually happened in the 1760s, and was by the British. They gave two blankets, and there is no evidence that there was any outbreak of the disease from it. Case in fact, the largest disease in the era among Indians was not even Small Pox, it was Measles. You are simply spreading the same old lie that is repeated over and over again, and it has no basis in fact.
In fact, during that era the very theory of "germs" did not even exist yet, and it was most commonly believed that disease was carried by bad air.