Blankets

[Tom Stanton]

At 06:26 PM 6/5/97 -0700, David Casseres wrote:
>I was going to stay out of this but I really do have to point out that 
>what you have is some evidence that in one place, at one time, a couple 
>of Army types apparently gave a couple of infected blankets to some 
>Indians.  To try to pass this off as evidence that no Indians anywhere, 
>at any time, were ever given quantities of infected blankets in exchange 
>for land is grossly irresponsible.

I thought I'd stay out too, but what the hell--vis the infected blanket,
unless I'm way off, at the time no one had discovered how diseases
were communicated in a population. If the Army was trying a primitive
form of germ warfare they would've been flying blind. Or is my time-
line way off?

Tom