It has always been intriguing that Covid killed so many oldsters in Europe and the US in 2020, starting in March. Hundreds of thousands.
But Asia . . . Asia was spared until 2021/2022, when mutations had had a chance to arrive.
The original design spared Asians. Only when the variants hit did the death count in Asia rocket upwards.
What a coincidence.
I don’t know. I’ve just never been able to buy the story about bats from an area so far away. I think it probably accidentally escaped from the lab.