The Pilgrims didn't give smallpox blankets to the Native Americans. And a growing number of people don't believe Ward Churchill's claims that the U.S. Army deliberately created a smallpox pandemic by giving out blankets that had been used by those with smallpox. There's even controversy surrounding whether Jeffrey Amherst (British commanding general during the French and Indian War) passed out smallpox blankets to Native Americans. And even if he did, it hasn't been determined that blankets would be a good vector for the disease.
Well, lookit that. I up and ruined the joke by over-explaining it. But now you know.
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