• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A lot of people thought the same thing about the Vietnamese. It’s a lot harder these days to wipe out an entire population than it was in the 1800’s, though not for lack of trying.

      Historically nations that have wholly wiped out other nations of people have needed a pandemic that they’re immune to in order to accomplish it.