

Viral Pandemonium
Irshad, in happier times, demonstrating how we all feel about the virus. On a good day in the community, there are dozens of sniffling, coughing, feverish children and adults. They live in tightly packed single room homes, built one on top of the other in narrow lanes with shallow gutters burbling with feces underfoot, where sunlight is all but absent except in pockets where the roofs don’t meet. On a regular day, people go about their business of child care, cooking, coming