Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

FarmI wrote:
> "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> FarmI wrote:
>>> "Bill" <b2forewagner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
>>>> I'd add obsession with being Germ Free.
>>>
>>> Yes.  I'm sure you're old enough to remember Polio. It wasn't an
>>> issue in
>>> the Western World until "germ free" became the vogue.  I won't 
>>> give
>>> cupboard
>>> space to anything that says on the label that it's antibacterial.
>>> And
>>> you
>>> should hear our Doctors on the topic if you get them started :-))
>>
>> And no doubt the Black Plague was due to being "germ free" as was 
>> the
>> smallpox epidemic that nearly wiped out the native Americans.
>
> Do try using some facts.  The Black Death or Bubonic Plague was not
> 'due' to, 'germs'.  It is an infection which entered the bodies of
> the victims when they were bitten by fleas.  Smallpox is not spread
> or caused by germs. It is a virus.

So being bitten by a flea which containes no plague germs gives one 
plague?  And a virus is not a germ?  Do tell.

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