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And with India being much more densely populated. It’s gonna continue to be awful there for a while

 

Oh ya, that is a runaway train. They're [uck fay]ed.

 

I thought India would be the worst of it all, and have been amazed that they weren't.

Not sure how they escaped it as long as they have.

 

Could be very useful information for the future to figure how things stayed decent for so long.

 

Same here.

 

Weather patterns maybe? It started kicking up last year as monsoon season started, so a lot more humidity and presumably less travel tempering the spread a little bit. The dry season starts end of year, then it just slowly builds from there?

I didn’t look at any charts to compare against wet and dry months so that’s a total shot in the dark.

 

If that were the case, a breakdown by state would help strengthen the signal, since the wet season progresses across the subcontinent slowly.

 

I wondered if they just finally got the variant that they were more susceptible to.

 

I don't think it works quite like that. They may have more contagious variants than the original, but there isn't likely to be true big differences in susceptibility among populations since this is novel for all people. We are all way more similar than not.

 

That makes sense. The population density can’t be helping, and the healthcare system is apparently not up to the task, but considering the scope of what’s happening, no one on the planet would be prepared to deal with what India is going through right now.

 

Agreed. The health care/wealth disparity is literally as wide as possible. Cutting edge/experimental down to nothing and living in a hovel.

 

And now there’s a severe oxygen shortage there... if this isn’t going to peak for another 3 weeks as is being reported... this is going to be an absolute disaster.

 

India could be potentially worrisome if it is variant, as India's population runs younger.

 

With a billion people to run through and it skewing younger, if it is not a variant now it may be soon enough.

 

More infective, less lethal is where it should head, even still.

 

I think the harvest and planting seasons are interesting. If fields D’Et winter fertilize and there is any trace back to fecal matter from humans, look out. It could be nothing but Magilla Gorilla had some great decal transmission threads on Twitter back in the day.

 

You know, that is an interesting call-back to them tracing COVID here in the states based on measurements in sewage.

 

Fecal as means of transmission hits for me, simply because I see it as an easier mode of initial transference between bats to people.

Bats poop on things. People eat things.

 

That is typically how zoonotic infections are picked up from small mammals. Ya, that does track.

 

The Midwest farm states led the charge in the fall spike last year. What in the hell are they spraying on those fields for winter?