Saturday, October 9, should have been a bad day. Brazil had just become the second country after the United States to top 600,000 COVID deaths. The U.S. Department of Labor released a disappointing jobs report. The global supply chain crisis deepened, with a backlog of nearly a half-million containers waiting to be unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles.
But then a video of a capybara enjoying a chin scratch went viral on Twitter.