now i've opened the live virus tracker site i keep going back to see the numbers increase, with the same bottom-dropping fascination as leaning toward the edge of an abyss. i keep seeing the face of avi, the germtracker kid, so cute and smooth and earnest—the statistical pipeline open, the bland terror of the numbers flooding in. he's already changing the name to a from ncov2019.live to germtracker, anticipating the next pandemic, without the slightest worry line on his fresh young face.