The Real Story of the Covid Catastrophe is Larger Than You Know by Thom Hartmann

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29. I don't have the background to challenge

Yale researchers, but the article does raise some questions for me.

The bacterium for Lyme disease existed in North America 60,000 years ago, 35,000 years before Native Americans arrived in North America. It can be carried by birds and small animals. The article states that info. So didn't the bacterium have a very long time to expand via deer, ticks, birds, and small mammals, before our modern era?

Native Americans of the northeastern part of North America depended heavily on deer for meat and for hides to make clothing, and to make containers from the skins. So they handled freshly killed deer often. Wouldn't they have experienced infection with Lyme disease?

Native Americans also lived in small villages in the forests, in close proximity to birds and small mammals, which they trapped. Wouldn't they have been exposed to infection?

The article says that the reduced size of forests, and the truncation of them as people cleared lands for homes reduced the habitats for deer. It also says that the wolf population decreased so that deer lacked natural predators to keep their population down. But wouldn't a decreased deer habitat also cause a reduction in the deer population? Also, wolves were intentionally killed off in some areas to protect livestock, but in other areas, they moved to be farther away from humans. Wouldn't relocated wolves have shared the available deer habitats with them?

In the end, I'm not sure that it is necessarily our modern lives that have caused Lyme disease to spread among people. The bacterium has had several thousand years to grow and evolve, and to be spread by birds and small mammals. One factor of our lives not mentioned in the article is that the tick can be carried to people by pets that encounter the tick outdoors.

Lyme disease is also often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed even today. But, even so, it is modern medicine that has enabled us to recognize it. It might have existed in people long before now, but not identified by source and cause.