• selfAwareCoder@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    Yes.

    Although to my memory it is because the first contact lead to 50% of their population being killed so now they live in violent isolation.

    I could also be confusing them with other islands in the area.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      Especially since now there’s covid (in addition to everything else) and I don’t trust that guy to have taken sufficient precautions against transmitting diseases