27 Replies to “Smallpox Blankets For The 21st Century”

  1. I first heard of the return of tuberculosis,which we had completely eradicated, in the early 80’s,from a health professional. I won’t mention the Country these folks were from as that isn’t PC.
    In the eyes of the lunatic left,this is a good thing,more privileged white people will die.

  4. PRC. I heard about it at the same time. The ChiComs have a lot of HIV and a lot of TB.(the TB is an incurable super-strain)

  5. Disease prevention and quarantine were the whole idea behind Ellis Island and similar islands in the St. Lawrence to which immigrants bound for Canada were brought. Why anyone would believe that unscreened, unfettered, uncontrolled illegal immigration would do anything but import previously eradicated or near-eradicated diseases is a completely mystery. Mother nature doesn’t give a damn for political correctness.

  6. Since sharia will soon replace the Canadian constitution, shouldn’t the diversity we’re supposed to completely embrace also include the diseases as well?
    (sarcasm off)

  7. The six diseases listed in the Breitbart article are not the only diseases to make a comeback or an entrance. There is the disease of progressive/communist thinking that has spread rapidly and the new disease of Sharia law.

  8. If you’re only making comments that are PC, then why post on this forum?
    Try CBC or Huffpo for that sort of thinking.

  9. Obama absolutely HATES American exceptionalism … including our eradication of disease. Obama LOVES “leveling the playing field” … which always means “everyone suffers” … “Everyone goes backward into the 7th century” smh.

  10. Related: The Cdn govt will now let gay men donate blood if they promise they’ve abstained from sex for a year. There’s no way to prove that. Our blood supply is not safe from contamination.
    Nobody should be allowed to donate blood unless it’s tested first to be free of contamination.

  11. tell that blood comment to Hillary C. they (HillBill) made a killing selling HIV tainted blood from Alabama prisons, that killed a bunch of canadians….

  13. It’s hard to believe that at one time immigrants on the east coast had to go through Ellis Island. People with dangerous communicable diseases were rejected and sent back where they came from. If it was thought they might have a dangerous communicable disease, they were quarantined and later released if the suspected disease didn’t manifest itself. It’s even harder to believe that at one time, immigrants had to have an American sponsor who promised to support the immigrant if he couldn’t find a job, and that immigrants for forbidden to appeal for any kind of public assistance for the first five years.

  15. No, Ive been posting here since about 2003, but I didn’t want to mention the Country they were coming from, infected with TB, because I only have anecdotal evidence, nothing that would stand up in Court.
    But,here you go:http://www.cmaj.ca/content/183/12/E939.full
    Suffice to say, they were NOT from Scotland.

  16. Remember what Shiny Pony said before he was elected when asked if “refugees” should be admitted on the basis of religion? Something about it being disgusting, as I recall.
    So, if religion can’t be a factor in barring entry, why should disease, eh?
    Sunny ways, folks. After all, Canada’s *back*!

  18. I’m hardly “making only comments that are PC”, just NOT making one that isn’t PC.
    And I post at CBC and Huffington quite often, and other Liberal and NDP sites around the internet, you should see the opinions at “The Tyee” some time! It helps to know what other views are out there.
    They,like here, can become echo chambers with nary a dissenting voice, unless someone posts a new take on something.
    I find it quite funny that people here, most of whom are newcomers compared to me, are accusing me of PC’ness just because I wouldn’t post the name of a Country where a few medical staff, in B.C. back in the 1980’s told me that TB was being found in immigrants from a certain Country.
    At the time I posted that,I had NO Court-worthy evidence,only the word of a few people I met. Would you have me slander an entire Nation based on the word of a few people ?
    Since that post,I’ve done some research,and found:http://www.cmaj.ca/content/183/12/E939.full
    So I guess NOW it’s safe to say that many of those immigrants were from India.
    And, of course,it only makes sense that any person coming here from a third world Country is likely to have been exposed to diseases we eradicated decades ago.
    The same medical staff also told me many of the same immigrants suffered from medical conditions brought on by poor diet and unsanitary living conditions, as well as not having a basic understanding of personal hygiene.One disease was rickets, rarely seen in Canada,common in third world Countries.
    The massive influx of immigrants from the third world helped to bankrupt our health care system, another un-PC fact no one will allow to be discussed any more,though Dianne Francis did a column on that back in the early ’90’s.
    All un-PC commentary has been thoroughly stifled by activists and pandering politicians who are only interested in voting blocks, the rest of us be damned.

  20. I hadn’t even heard it was such a big problem in India, I had heard about China though.
    From Wiki:
    In China, tuberculosis has been the number 1 cause of death from infectious disease in adults. In 1990, 360,000 people in China died from tuberculosis.
    Tuberculosis is one of China’s major public health problems. According to WHO estimates, China has the world’s second largest tuberculosis epidemic, behind only India, with more than 1.3 million new cases of tuberculosis every year

  21. A family from China was sponsored by a brother who worked in our small town and after they were here a short time, one of the children was found to have TB. She’d already been attending the school for some months.
    This isn’t anecdotal; I worked there.

  22. What if there is no word for “tuberculosis” in Wolof (Senegalese) ? What then ? How do you let the poor Immigrant know that he has a potentially fatal disease … if he has no word for it ? And he has no concept for it … except for what his local Shaman has to say ? Does Obamakkare include coverage for treatment by Senegal Holy Man ? What is the 10-digit computer code for THAT one ? Aren’t these the same people who believe that AIDS is cured by having sex with a 10yo virgin girl ?

  23. dang. murphy’s law eh? what, the ‘authorities’ didn’t KNOW about this? wait until the conspiracysts get ahold of this factoid, you know, along the lines of Bigpharma instigating it to sell billions in antibiotics.
    I first heard of the TB superbug in a news story about the conditions in Russian prisons about, oh 8-10 years ago. the spread is right on track. sign of the times.

  24. Diversity in Disease! Wonderful!
    Next, fear of the Black Death is of course racist.

  25. Calling it the bubonic plague would be, too. There’s bound to be an SJW out there somewhere who’ll claim that it’s prejudicial against Bubonians.

  26. The mention of the supposedly-infected blankets bugs me. Making up the lie that the US Army gave away infected blankets was one of the falsehoods over which Ward Churchill lost his job, IIRC.

  27. Bearing in mind that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, is there any “smoking gun” in the form of documents, eyewitness testimony recorded at the time, or guilt-wracked confessions, to indicate that whites ever really did attempt such a germical holocaust?
    — Philip Torrens, Vancouver
    Cecil replies:
    A common reaction to this story is that it has to be folklore. Giving infected blankets to the Indians — why, that’s awful! That’s disgusting! That’s … ethnic cleansing. Hmm. Maybe this story bears a closer look.
    Fact is, on at least one occasion a high-ranking European considered infecting the Indians with smallpox as a tactic of war. I’m talking about Lord Jeffrey Amherst, commander of British forces in North America during the French and Indian War (1756-’63). Amherst and a subordinate discussed, apparently seriously, sending infected blankets to hostile tribes. What’s more, we’ve got the documents to prove it, thanks to the enterprising research of Peter d’Errico, legal studies professor at the University of Massachusetts at (fittingly) Amherst. D’Errico slogged through hundreds of reels of microfilmed correspondence looking for the smoking gun, and he found it.
    The exchange took place during Pontiac’s Rebellion, which broke out after the war, in 1763. Forces led by Pontiac, a chief of the Ottawa who had been allied with the French, laid siege to the English at Fort Pitt.
    According to historian Francis Parkman, Amherst first raised the possibility of giving the Indians infected blankets in a letter to Colonel Henry Bouquet, who would lead reinforcements to Fort Pitt. No copy of this letter has come to light, but we do know that Bouquet discussed the matter in a postscript to a letter to Amherst on July 13, 1763:
    P.S. I will try to inocculate the Indians by means of Blankets that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to get the disease myself. As it is pity to oppose good men against them, I wish we could make use of the Spaniard’s Method, and hunt them with English Dogs. Supported by Rangers, and some Light Horse, who would I think effectively extirpate or remove that Vermine.
    On July 16 Amherst replied, also in a postscript:
    P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race. I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by Dogs could take Effect, but England is at too great a Distance to think of that at present.
    On July 26 Bouquet wrote back:
    I received yesterday your Excellency’s letters of 16th with their Inclosures. The signal for Indian Messengers, and all your directions will be observed.
    We don’t know if Bouquet actually put the plan into effect, or if so with what result. We do know that a supply of smallpox-infected blankets was available, since the disease had broken out at Fort Pitt some weeks previously. We also know that the following spring smallpox was reported to be raging among the Indians in the vicinity.
    To modern ears, this talk about infecting the natives with smallpox, hunting them down with dogs, etc., sounds over the top. But it’s easy to believe Amherst and company were serious. D’Errico provides other quotes from Amherst’s correspondence that suggest he considered Native Americans subhumans who ought to be exterminated. Check out his research for yourself at http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html
    He not only includes transcriptions but also reproduces the relevant parts of the incriminating letters.
    — Cecil Adams
    http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1088/did-whites-ever-give-native-americans-blankets-infected-with-smallpox

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