Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Joe Rogan | The Amazon is a Colossal Mystery w/Graham Hancock" video.

  1. Correction: it wasn't Small Pox. It was Rubella. Yes, it WAS deadly in the New World. Europeans can carry Rubella, and transmit it onward, be 'vectors' -- yet not carry Small Pox. It's just too lethal to transmit by ordinary human transfer. If ANY fellow showed evidence of Small Pox during his transit from the Old World -- he would be promptly thrown overboard as a Jonah. If this was not done, the entire crew was lost. Note the utter lack of contemporary accounts of Small Pox transmission by crews. (Small Pox would make its victims (visibly) instant lepers if they should even make it to the New World. ) When Rubella hit Hawaii -- the epic destruction shocked all. When Rubella is piled on top of other, trivial, Old World diseases (namely Chicken Pox), the result is genocide by nature. The Small Pox theory was just a guess by non-experts. They simply transferred their own horror of the pox -- and assumed it had done the deed. It simply never occurred to them that 'mild' diseases for Europeans and Africans were normally lethal in the New World.
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