48:41 coinciding with the plague. So, the story we have—the evidence for it isn't there yet we do have this other collection of evidence that is not in the official story that seems to be a giant contributor but i guess the question that i would still have this ok so comment came and meet your came in, i've heard people talk about those containing viruses what what kind of poisons do you think. That would contain that would cause this kinda situation if not a virus or some kinda foreign bacteria we also have the thing about people traveling internationally the conquistadors the colonialists bringing over diseases of americans were ready for and that could be a cover story because it's like hey we didn't wanna kill them all they just got sick i don't know what to do but what are your thoughts on some of these things yeah that is certainly the cover story because again referring to another extremely important book called american holocaust by doctor david stanard
49:45 he has undertaken quite a lot of research and put together an extremely important book showing how lots of contemporary evidence about what happened when the conquistadors arrived on the shores. Obviously, you've got to be careful now because you're in America but really what happened was pretty brutal And it's possibly a good idea to say, oh well they just bought their diseases because then it kind of diverts attention away from some of the more horrific aspects of what happened. Because the invaders wanted the gold
50:27 and they push people off their land so people want to go to any more than. I'm pushing to gold mines and that's particularly what is known to be particularly horrendous plantations slaves on plantations, some of these horrendous acts are put one side because i said no it was smallpox Now, we do talk about smallpox quite a bit in the book because it's the first disease for which vaccines were developed. And again that's down to a chemist Edward Jenner rather than a doctor and the whole idea that smallpox was caused by some kind of germ although at the time it wasn't part of the germ theory but the idea that smallpox could be prevented by vaccines
51:14 But it was the first disease that was thought to be contagious. Well, let me just come in on this because Dool mentioned earlier a book about the American Holocaust for the whole of the Americas you know although it happened at different times in South America when they conquistadors moved in but something very similar happened then in North America when and the British moved in but in both cases Particularly in South America with the conquistadors, that occupation was particularly brutal. And Dr Stanard goes into it in quite revealing detail and is quite hard reading to see what went off what is based on his eyewitness accounts but yeah the people were slaughtered in large numbers chased off their land so people then dying of starvation so all of the normal so-called diseases come
52:02 represented with severe malnutrition. But worse than that, the conquistadors enslaved what people they could catch and because they were only there for the gold and silver so they were forced into the mines as slave labor many of them died because one of the things that can question doors always seem to get idea to them is there was lots of native people around so they didn't need to bother feeding. Is the people died and we just disposed off and i bought more paper in hard to believe on but there's evidence to support this So they were responsible for almost wiping out the entire population of South America and up through the islands surrounding it. And it was nothing to do with them bringing their diseases over, but its much easier to talk about oh yeah well, the conquistadors came across you know they didn't know that these diseases and you know the local population
52:54 didn't have any immunity and they died off, you know most regrettable but not really our fault sort of thing really rather than facing the brutal facts of what they actually did to the local inhabitants which was horrific. I mean these people these conquistadors who sort of came up against the local inhabitants i mean they had things like armored dogs which were trained to literally chase people down and rip them apart and they use these to hunt down the local populace. I mean, i won't go on into this in too much detail but if anyone wants to know what a real holocaust is about then have a read of what happened in South America The True Story which as I say has nothing to do with smallpox or any other disease it's to do with
53:40 pure brutality and wholesale slaughter of people, and mass starvation. And those were the real killers of what happened in South America. Something very similar happened in North America too with the North American natives Well that definitely makes sense to me i think that's a really great breakdown and we do have this long history of were told diseases and viruses so the conversation can quickly turn into how do we explain the situation i will explain that situation, add there does have to be some answer and clearly i feel like your book lays out some really great alternatives for every case and