You never wondered: “Gee, why didn’t everyone on Columbus’s ships get a New World Disease and die? Why didn’t they bring back a disease that killed off 80-90% of Europe’s population?”
And how that relates to the comment I replied to: I sorta misread at first that the albatrosses were on the COLONIZERS Neck. Because those albatrosses are also terribly affecting Native communities who have the HIGHEST tobacco use among ethnicities in the US (though it is also used in some rituals, so it has dual use), and Native Americans have over TWICE the diabetes rates of non-Hispanic whites in the US. But I also believe part of that is due to the systemic suffering and chronic poverty having a large effects on these number (though this is my speculation.) <— This part was in my head - leading me to comment on the fact that had things been different and most of them weren’t killed off by disease, they would be in a MUCH better place, and the world much different.
