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Covid-19 Update: 28 September

Sep 29, 2020

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Apologies for the lack of posting, work is pretty busy as we wrap some projects up. But here’s a look at the latest Covid data for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Illinois. Normally we look at Virginia as well, but their site was down for maintenance and so there was no data to report. When…

Covid-19 Update: 21 September

Sep 22, 2020

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Brendan Barry

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Apologies for the lack of posting yesterday, but I wasn’t feeling well. I had some other things planned for today, but then some other things happened this weekend and then I took ill. But it’s still important to look at what’s going on with the pandemic, especially in the United States where it’s been disastrously…

Positioning Is Important

Sep 16, 2020

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Brendan Barry

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Yesterday Pew Research released the results of a survey of how the rest of the world views select countries throughout the world. The Washington Post covered it in an article and created some graphics to support the text. The text, of course, was no big surprise in that the rest of the world views the…

Covid-19 Update: 13 September

Sep 14, 2020

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Brendan Barry

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Apologies for the lack of posting last week. I’m on deadline for, well, today. Plus I had some technical difficulties on the server side of the blog. But it’s a Monday, so we’re back with Covid updates for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, and Illinois. The good news, such that it is during a global…

Covid-19 Update: 7 September

Sep 8, 2020

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Brendan Barry

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Yesterday was a holiday in the States, and so let’s begin this shortened week with a look at the Covid situation in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, and Illinois. If we compare this morning’s charts of yesterday’s data to last Monday’s, we can see some concerning trends. In Pennsylvania, that includes a rising trend. Anecdotally,…

Shipping Out of Boston

Sep 3, 2020

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Brendan Barry

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Monday was the trade deadline for this year’s attempt at a baseball season. The Red Sox actively sold off parts of their roster. You may remember that just two years ago, the Red Sox won the World Series, the sport’s national championship. One would imagine that two years later, most of that championship calibre roster…

How Are Officers Dying in the Line of Duty

Sep 1, 2020

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Brendan Barry

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Lately we have seen a few incidents of violence amid the large mass of peaceful protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin and other places across the United States. With death on both sides of the protest line, the situation risks devolving into chaos. Though the governor of Wisconsin has sent in National Guard troops (with some additional…

Covid-19 Update: 30 August

Aug 31, 2020

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Brendan Barry

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After dealing with hurricane forecast plots last Monday, we’re back to the nature-made, man-intensified disaster of Covid-19 in the United States. So in the five states we review, where are we with the pandemic? Compared to the charts from two weeks, looking at daily new cases, in some places we are in a better spot,…

Pence’s Jobs Claim: Fact Checked

Aug 27, 2020

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Brendan Barry

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I watched Vice President Prence’s convention speech last night. He made several claims, including one about the Trump administration creating 9.3 million jobs over the last three months. That’s a lot of jobs. So I wanted to check and see if that was true. It is. over the last three months, the administration has created…

Is Covid-19 Surging in New Zealand?

Aug 19, 2020

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Brendan Barry

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Yesterday, President Trump claimed that Covid-19 was “surging” in New Zealand, a country widely lauded as having successfully contained and suppressed their outbreak. That has allowed Wellington to reopen large swathes of their economy without incident. Until this surge. And by surge we mean something like 30 cases in 3 days. So, let’s compare that…

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