Forgive me, I'm not sure what you mean. I perceive that the difference between them and me is professional training; I am a mathematician, in the Theory of Com

Forgive me, I'm not sure what you mean. I perceive that the difference between them and me is professional training; I am a mathematician, in the Theory of Computation, and their training is in areas without the same consciousness about exponential growth. The meeting was a Ham Radio club and so draws from a wide range including both white collar and blue. I didn't mean to talk down about the folks there, who are generally intelligent and thoughtful, and I only told that story to illustrate that the typical person was not thinking about hunkering even that close to the lockdown moment.