Back in April, a colleague sent me an intriguing message from Dr Tarek Alam, Departmental Head of Medicine at Bangladesh Medical College in Dhaka. In this message, Dr Alam pointed out the Covid-19 mortality rate in Bangladesh has been lower than India’s in all three waves. Significantly lower.
A child of the peace and antiWar movements, a Truther with self-diagnosed Opposition Defiance Disorder, formerly politically liberal tho now politically marooned, and Post-Doomer, on any issue, I trend to the conspiracy side, sort through the absurd, fantastical and insane, until I find firm ground usually located just the other side of the censorship firewall of propaganda and orthodoxy, dogma, and other either / or thinking.