CoronAsuras

It's tempting to forget that COVID-19 isn't nearly done with us.

This curve has only become more acute since the last time I showed it, January 8th, when we'd just reached 4000 souls lost in a day. Don't be fooled by the relatively low number of deaths listed here; Monday numbers are always artificially low because record-keeping is delayed on weekends; almost 9000 deaths were recorded the day before. And the total is 486,111 in the U.S. and 2,405,804 globally. Maybe we'd take it more seriously if we had traditions like the Javanese shadow puppet above or the Chhau dance from eastern India below to make the "CoronAsura" (both described here, with video links) real to us.