Thinking about ChefKarl’s Plurk about the Spanish Flu. Our kids and my mom are in Amarillo, panhandle of Texas. Pop ~200,000, more in the wider “panhandle”. Amarillo is the pop. center of the area. They are beginning to have exponential growth (doubling~every 4-5 days). The city has 2 hospitals. They have ~ 20ventilators between the two and half are in use.