We used to think that people had been getting smallpox for 3 or 4 thousand years, because we’ve found mummies with pockmarks that look like the symptoms of smallpox.
It's a push by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's new government to improve basic services in a country pockmarked by years of conflict from Invasion as well as internal factions warring for power.
" What, then" ? demanded Ser Jared Frey, who was lean, balding, and pockmarked. " Is Edmure Tully so drunk on his victory that he thinks to give Lord Tywin battle in the open field" ?