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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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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: 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: 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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To: BenLurkin

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: 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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"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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