So yesterday the WaPo map page listed 2200 US cases. Today it lists 2700. 20% increase per day is not a trend that is our friend.

That’s doubling every 4 days. (Okay, fractionally less.) That’s every US inhabitant infected in approximately 2 months.

The good news and the bad news is that there isn’t sufficient testing, unless apparently you’re a Rethuglican bigwig or a major sports franchise. It’s “good news” in that the growth curve is really as much an artifact of testing ramping up as any true spread. The bad news is the inference that we’re only measuring the tip of the iceberg on actual spread.

In my personal life, I suspect that we’re going to get told to work from home in a week. It’s one of those things for which there simply is no good timing. If you do it when you see local community spread, then it’s too damned late. But I know the bosses, and until they see a “measurable” number of cases in the county then they’re not going to believe in it. They refuse to believe anything else we tell them, anyway.