CoViD-19 and I

Today on my walk I met one of the people who used to be at the Caltrain station every morning when I caught my train. She is still commuting that way. I hope she is a medic or otherwise doing truly essential work. I also saw two dogs being walked -- one by a couple, who very kindly stepped into an entryway so I could pass them at a social distance -- and perhaps two other walkers; I remember only one vehicle. At work, the higher-ups are continuing their efforts to provide us some degree of contact and information, by scheduling small group chats. There is also some thought of reallocating under-utilised people -- do we really have any of those? The numbers mostly show more small steps in the right direction. I am alarmed that I now regard a one-week doubling time as a good  thing. But if we can reduce R-zero by that much again (from one third, to one seventh, to, <thinks> minus one twenty-first), the pandemic will disappear eventually. Except that restrictions on movement wil