Upper West Siders don't listen. Once again, Pynchon a genius: knew social distancing like a prophet. You can bet he was home, just around the corner.

[Mark Kohut]

Thomas,

You might imagine how regular citizens, not kinda wonkish or academic types
like us, smart enough but
with no experience with the concept (with examples) of 'exponential".....

Ye old Middle East story of the king and the grain of sand on one
chessboard square doubling every square; or the
a penny on the first day of a month doubling all thirty days......

No one believes unless you and they have the time to virtually perform it
literally.

I got blown off Facebook in my town info site when I suggested earlier in
the week that soon it would be like the end of the week
that has unfolded....

So it went.

Mark

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 2:10 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> Give it some time, and NYC will look like Rome:
>
> https://www.skylinewebcams.com/de/webcam/italia.html
>
> So will Berlin. As I have been telling everybody for weeks now: It is an
> exponential function.
>
>
>