Salt Bomb Obsequies

[rain_gryphon]

So, the MSM are beginning to report on the fact that India's death figures are way out of accord with the evidence. I'm unsure if this reflects some vestigial sense of journalistic integrity, or if they're aware that they need to do something to avoid looking like idiots. Estimated multipliers seem to center around 2 to 5, with some estimates as high as 30!

Sky News.

The curiously-named "Stuff".

And News Australia

If the estimate is near the high end of the range, then at close to half of Indian residents are or have been infected. I'd expect to see the plague break soon and strongly, if that's the case.

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The Farmer's Market is opening for the year tomorrow in the county seat. Not sure if I'll go or not. It's awfully early in the season to actually find anything worth buying there.

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I have container and frame tomatoes and peppers planted, although not nearly all of them. The garden centre is still getting their plants in. I bought a manual tiller, which is a sort of vaguely swastika-shaped (the times even turn to the right!) garden fork that you dig in and rotate by main force. It's quite effective, although very hard to use on unbroken ground. I'm getting needed exercise from it.

I mean to build a grape arbor as well this spring, which is something we've long needed. I'm going for the big, walk-in design, sort of like a gazebo covered by vines. We had long, tunnely one when I was young, that I just loved. On a hot day, it's at least 20° cooler inside, plus it smells wonderfully of fermenting grapes. Always lots of wasps and yellowjackets, but they're stuffed (or are getting stuffed) with sugar and alcohol, so are quite mellow.

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Comments

[pyesetz]

Your links don't work because you used herf= attributes instead of href=.

76% of Manaus, Brazil residents had been infected as of last fall.  Then a new variant showed up in January.

[rain_gryphon]

Well, herf. TY.

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

I find it much easier to disbelieve everything (and I mean *everything*) the media says until the truth eventually wins out (or not, depending). I've been lied to by the government and the media for far too long for me to swallow anything whole from them ever again.