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.

[Charles Albert]

You know it's getting real when the parking lot at the gym looks like the
one at work....

love,

cfa

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 2:38 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
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