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gab taillefer mclaren 🎃
@gltmcl
🍉 environmental historians and PhD student studying settler responses to environmental disease during a pandemic/climate crisis popcorn enthusiast 🍉
Mar 24, 2020 • 32 tweets • 9 min read
I've seen 1000 memes about influenza and the plague because of #COVID_19. While we're all bored, here's a juicy story of class, environment, & protest—my (abridged) @SFUHistory honours thesis on Montreal's 1885 smallpox epidemic. Ask questions and share as you read! (1/30) So: a sick train conductor arrived in Montreal in Feb 1885. His case was immediately mishandled. The city had no smallpox hospital, so he wasn't properly isolated. Soon, unvaccinated hospital workers brought smallpox into their communities (2/30)