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		jdkee on April 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past Also protected from some nasty bugs by herd immunity from the vaccinated.

btilly on April 2, 2020 [–]

To be fair, we got those nasty bugs from domesticating herd animals who lived in herds big enough to support them

Hunting gatherers didn't have to worry about most of those diseases either.

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