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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Velveteen Ocelot
(115,281 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)Large slums full of desperately poor people has to be the ideal environment for maximum infection.
China has always been an enemy; lets hope they have the will and the courage to step in and help.
God knows the USA can no longer serve that role.
msongs
(67,199 posts)PJMcK
(21,922 posts)With aloo paratha.
at140
(6,110 posts)Curry powder is made from turmeric+coriander+ginger+chili....all have anti-bacterial proerties.
Turmeric is a good natural expectorant, may be helping expel covid virus before it sets up a colony in lungs.
getagrip_already
(14,255 posts)India isn't really testing. They have a different outlook on disease.
Time will tell.
at140
(6,110 posts)1. It is already excruciatingly hot there, virus has no chance to survive outside of human body
Unlike United States, hottest month in India are APril-May. Monsoons show up in June-July and cool down the air
2. Indians do NOT shake hands, the greetings is namaste.
3. Indians live in low quality sanitary conditions, which boosts their resistance to various diseases
4. India is carefully checking people coming from infected areas.
5. Curry is a great killer of bacteria and may be viruses. (Turmeric+coriander+ginger+chili powder)
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)When do many people defecate in open, this virus must be there.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)20 times bigger than Italy and 15 times bigger than Iran.
AT least 300 million Indians can speak English and have cell phones.
If covid-19 was killing people at the rate of Italy or Iran, it would be all over social media.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)expect it to pan out that way.
at140
(6,110 posts)which is to quickly cancel all visa's from affected countries. Better to stop the infected people, then testing is not as critical.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)A slow burn might not even rise above the noise there. Though, I don't even want to think about what would happen if this spread quickly in Dharavi or Basanti.
at140
(6,110 posts)I don't know if the gov't still does it, but at one time you got paid for going through a vasectomy.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)It's not so much the birth rate as that
at140
(6,110 posts)It just keeps growing and growing. And the average age keeps dropping.
If there is one thing I enjoy more than anything else in USA is so many peaceful and quiet places to live.
My house has dense woods behind the back yard. No traffic noise whatsoever.
Last time I was in India it was loud traffic noise beginning at 5 am in the house where I grew up.
It was nothing like that when I left in 1960.
meadowlander
(4,358 posts)Its lack of testing/reporting or somehow winning the travelling vector jackpot.
at140
(6,110 posts)and by the time it began arriving in India in March, it was already very hot there.
Chinese do not consume anywhere near the amount of turmeric consumed by Indians.
meadowlander
(4,358 posts)Curry (Gali 咖喱 ) is a very popular dish in China (where I lived for five years) and certainly I almost never saw a dish that didn't include ginger, garlic and cilantro. Those are all staples in the Chinese diet.
It gets very hot in Central China and Iran and Brazil and Italy and Spain and Malaysia and Australia (where it's the height of summer at the moment).
There's no evidence that either temperature or diet affects the spread of the disease.
There is evidence that Modi's government is corrupt and that India lacks the healthcare infrastructure of some of the other countries (like South Korea) that are successfully containing the spread.
Therefore it is a lot more likely that the issue stems from lack of testing than the magic healing powers of turmeric.
at140
(6,110 posts)from the few relatives I still keep in touch with in India.
This coming September will be 60 years since I am in US and 50 years since becoming a US citizen.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,281 posts)Doctors say it is either that there are many more cases in India than have been detected, because of the difficulties of getting tested, or that India has indeed managed to so far escape the worst, possibly because of quick and strict efforts right from the start.
In Kerala, in the south, the authorities used GPS technology, CCTV footage and mobile phone records to trace the movements of one Indian family believed to be among the first infected here. They returned from Italy in late February, and within days, medical teams fanned out to all the places they had visited including banks, restaurants and churches and quickly quarantined just about everyone they had come in contact with nearly 1,000 people.
India was also one of the first nations to essentially shut its borders, canceling visas and denying entry to all but a select few foreigners. Some states, such as Kerala, are beginning to beef up internal borders, taking the temperature of passengers in cars and screening people on trains.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)And it shows
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)Test no evil see no evil.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)of hot milk with loads of turmeric, which I hated of course. But it always helped get better faster.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)And when I cook beans or lentils I load with cumin and turmeric
sprinkleeninow
(20,136 posts)Amerikanska caucasian female...
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,136 posts)MontanaMama
(23,242 posts)Thats on my short list to get into my immunity regimen.
sprinkleeninow
(20,136 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)Renew Deal
(81,803 posts)Something about spice fighting off coronavirus.
RockRaven
(14,784 posts)The world is a mysterious place...
meadowlander
(4,358 posts)All staples of Chinese food too especially the further west you go.
Its the lack of testing, not magic ingredients in curry.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)I dont think of turmeric as being Chinese
meadowlander
(4,358 posts)curry is a very popular dish, especially in hot pot restaurants. I ate it at least on a weekly basis with friends when I lived there. Thinking back more or less any group meal I ate in a restaurant included at least one curry dish (generally curried beef and potatoes or curry hot pot).
It's not as common in Chinese restaurants in America because (obviously) when Americans go to Chinese restaurants they want "Chinese" food - fried rice and sweet and sour pork. But there is a huge diversity of regional cuisines in China which reflect a number of ethnic groups. China borders India and they share some common dishes. We also don't think of KFC as being "Chinese" but that doesn't mean people in China don't consume a lot of fried chicken.
And literally every single dish in China contains ginger. If it had any impact on Covid-19, why were cases spiking there?
There's no evidence that anything other than medical and social interventions (like testing and social distancing) have any impact on the spread of Covid-19 and it's frankly irresponsible at this point to be speculating that there is some magic dietary ingredient that will protect people from getting it or improve their outcomes.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)I dont Know China very well, but I thinking of curries containing Turkic as more regional. In India its everywhere
ecstatic
(32,567 posts)and probably flights as well. I assume there's a lack of testing though...
littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)She is also very worried. Police are asking shops,restaurants to voluntarily close but she says she's not hopeful. She's such a lovely person. I hope she makes it through.
AJT
(5,240 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,136 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)remember the best fighter against any virus is your own body.
Anti-biotics work only with bacterial infections.
So give your body what it needs to produce lots of anti-bodies which will know how to identify the virus and kill it.
Eat nutritious foods, get plenty of sleep, keep well hydrated, do deep breathing exercise before and after bed time, avoid alcohol and no smoking!
And consume turmeric in any form, it is a natural expectorant which helps expel bad stuff from lungs.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)at140
(6,110 posts)The covid-19 will perish in India by mid-April. It is crazy hot there by then.
The monsoons show up mid-June, and with it came wonderful cooler air. and much needed rain.
In my town only rain we ever received was from June-September. Totally dry rest of year.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)In Bengal and the Northeast they get a reverse monsoon off the Bay that comes in December. And in the Deccan there are areas where it can rain any time of the year.
at140
(6,110 posts)Since leaving India 60 years ago, what I miss most is the more flavorful tomatoes, mangoes, jack fruit, and apples.
When an apple was cut, the entire room was filled with the aroma. But I do not miss the over-crowded markets and streets.