Unreal

Today makes fourteen days we've been in quasi quarantine, but days don't feel like days when you're confronting exponentially growing infections. The shape of the graph - which you can see - doesn't change. It's the scale - which you can't see - that changes. The bar at the right is always the height of the chart, even in this morning's update from the

city government, where the final bar shows only part of a day's reported cases. Together with the striking absence of detailed information about who's affected in the US, this strangely stable chart makes covid-19 feel abstract for those of us fortunate enough to be uninfected and able to continue our lives remotely. Still, 222 more died in NYC yesterday. RIP.