Corona Discovers India!
FROM The Anti-New York Times: Let me see if I got this straight --- After 16 months, the mega-densely-populated cities of India -- which heretofore had experienced only a fraction of the "cases" and "deaths" that the United States had suffered [both in number and per capita (here)] -- have just now, all-of-a-sudden, without explanation, become the overnight "epicenters" ™ of Stupid 19? India's numbers had been so low that a BBC headline from just this past November -- citing baffled "scientists" -- asked: * Coronavirus: Are Indians More Immune to Covid-19? "India's case fatality rate or CFR, which measures deaths among Covid-19 patients, is less than 2%, which is among the lowest in the world." (here) I reckon this nasty little pathogen is like your foodie reporter here in some ways. You see, for decades, I would never even think of trying Indian food. Too exotic and "different" from my Italian-Irish-American cravings for various pasta dishes, chicken parm, meatballs -- or even just good old American hot dogs & hamburgers. It was only in recent years that I discovered the Indian culinary wonders of Butter Chicken, Tika Masala, Onion Nan bread -- and Rasmali for dessert. Yummm! And these North Indian specialties aren't too spicy either. You really ought to try them. So, perhaps the heretofore European-American "coronavirus" just had a similar mid-life epiphany and suddenly developed an appetite for the bronchial cells of Indian folks in its older years? Just last week, a…