Never tried it with stories, but they're just information at the end of the day. Watching information spread is like- like a tree, I suppose. It starts with one person knowing it, then branches as they tell people, and those branches branch out and so on. Then there's a little explosion of tiny branches when something makes it to a newspaper or the radio.

[ He doesn't liken it to tracking the spanish flu, which it is also similar to. You're welcome. ]

You could have just fucking told me to behave this whole time. I've been suggesting it for a while.