Numbers are now in the news every day and people are paying attention, even our president. Those of us working in the field of global health have invested countless hours to convey the importance of data to track what’s going on, whether interventions made a difference, to spot outbreaks, the effect of mitigation, and to shape policy and strategy.
Here are how my numbers are trending:
- Weight (slowly trending up)
- Steps (sharp trend down)
- Trips to the grocery store (down to negligible)
- Minutes meditated (up)
- Minutes played Wordfeud with my friend A, in Dutch and English (up)
- Audiobooks listened to (up, entirely due to Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series and Louise Penny’s Detective Inspector Gamache series)
- Bike miles on the stationary bike (up)
- Bike miles on the real bike (down)
- Retirement funds (down)
- Screen time (up)
- Income (down)
- Hugs with grandchildren (0)
- Virtual hugs with grandchildren (up)
- Zoom sessions attended (up)
- Check-ins with loved ones (up)
- Number of minutes playing the violin (up)
- Pages of the Sunday New York Times read (up)
- Strands braided for the staircase runner (up)
- Average time for one strand (reduced from weeks to one evening)
- Attempts to start knitting two socks at the same time from the toes down (5)
- Attempts to start knitting two socks from the other end (2)
- Number of unused cars in our driveway (2)
- Miles driven in our unused cars (negligible)
- Frequent flyer miles (sharp down)
- Malaria pills taken (0)
- Cups of coffee (about the same)
- Cookies baked (up from close to zero – see also weight, above)
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