notes and carry the right tenor for maximum effect, I don't even know what to believe anymore.

I'll take her at her word that it happened. If it did, it's a terrible experience for her.

That this has anything to do with the virus is mere speculation.

Was the guy mentally ill? Maybe she cut him off on the sidewalk and didn't know it. She was talking on her phone.

Or maybe the guy was a piece of garbage. That also could be true.

But, I'm not prepared to make any kind of link between calling the thing the China virus or Chinese virus and that being some sort of swear word.

It just reeks of political correctness and nonsense.