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How Black Death survivors gave their descendants an edge during pandemics
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Posted on 10/20/2022 8:46:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 10/20/2022 8:46:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

PING


2 posted on 10/20/2022 8:48:27 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Humans are 8% virus – how the ancient viral DNA in your genome plays a role in human disease and development

https://theconversation.com/humans-are-8-virus-how-the-ancient-viral-dna-in-your-genome-plays-a-role-in-human-disease-and-development-192322


3 posted on 10/20/2022 8:50:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Then there is the question as to whether the bodies found in Denmark and East Smithfield Cemetary actually survived the Black Death. Weren’t they buried in said locations precisely because they did not?


4 posted on 10/20/2022 8:53:42 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: BenLurkin

From the article:

“”Basically, if Europeans survived, that automatically means that they’re the superior race.”

Does anybody really think that? I need to brush up on my racism, because I think that people living in the shithole of Africa would have better immune systems. Wait, does saying that make me a racist, or does thinking the other thing make me a racist?


5 posted on 10/20/2022 8:59:51 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: BenLurkin

The scariest part of the Covid Pandemic is that the handling of it was not much better than the way the Black Plague was handled. Our supposed “Public Health Agencies” proved they are not much more than a bunch of Deep State Bureaucrats headed by the likes of Comrade [Doctor] Anthony Fow-Chi, who is beholden to the red chinese.


6 posted on 10/20/2022 8:59:56 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA in Biden's Post Constitutional United Socialist States of Amerika!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
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The scariest part of the Covid Pandemic is that the handling of it was not much better than the way the Black Plague was handled

The great and the good among them also believed that masks would save them.

7 posted on 10/20/2022 9:09:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: suthener

You’re not allowed to say white people are different, in any way, than black people.

You are allowed to say black people are better.

Anything else is racist.


8 posted on 10/20/2022 9:12:37 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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You mean the mRNA jab didn’t save the survivors or kill them as is the case now?….


9 posted on 10/20/2022 9:25:36 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: BenLurkin

Why the racialist take on the research? It’s racism, racism, racism everywhere.


10 posted on 10/20/2022 9:34:43 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: suthener

Good point! The first white explorers of central Africa were lucky to survive a year.


11 posted on 10/20/2022 9:36:32 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: BenLurkin

Surviving a plague doesn’t mean you’re “superior”. It means you’re resistant. You carry this or that gene that is adapted to confer a survival advantage. You’d have to be pretty ignorant about genetics to think it means you’re “superior” to others. This is a ridiculous concern for them to have.


12 posted on 10/20/2022 9:39:28 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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anybody got specifics on this. I looked up that gene in my DNA and I have a bunch of variations with things like

endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase 2 isoform 1

several of them are in the highly conserved area. the more highly conserved across species the more chance a variation is pathogenic.

Going to have to go see if my relatives survived the plague


13 posted on 10/20/2022 9:39:52 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

some specific info

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05349-x


14 posted on 10/20/2022 9:41:24 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: BenLurkin

Wouldn’t the Black Plague have gone all around the world just like the Spanish flu?


15 posted on 10/20/2022 9:45:06 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: RummyChick

so just doing a cursory scan of my article it seems that if you have an autoimmune disease like Crohns, RA, or Lupus you may have the protective Black Death Allele.

I don’t have the protective C allele (mine is T/T) and have different autoimmune issues.


16 posted on 10/20/2022 9:54:54 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Tennessee Nana; Oldeconomybuyer; BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; ..
Thanks Tennessee Nana.

17 posted on 10/20/2022 9:58:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: RummyChick

The other thing that might be interesting if you saw my Naltrexone thread yesterday is if people who don’t have the protective allele have a better response to the drug.

Someone posted a video from Dr Breem about the drug and he talks a lot about many of the buzz words you see in the Black Death article.

LDN doesn’t work for everyone. DNA probably factors into it in some way.


18 posted on 10/20/2022 9:59:00 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: FLT-bird
You’d have to be pretty ignorant about genetics to think it means you’re “superior”

What if you have the white supremacist gene? I think the only thing that counters that is having the gay gene.

19 posted on 10/20/2022 10:09:16 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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"If there's not comparable genetic work on these populations," she says, "then the racists are going to come along and interpret these new findings in any way that they want."

The racists are coming! The racists are coming! Ruuuuuunnnn!!!

20 posted on 10/20/2022 10:29:01 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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