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With patio weather upon us, Project Takeout is a wrap
But first, a final batch of recommendations from Globe staff, because to-go meals are always in season
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In January, The Boston Globe launched Project Takeout, an initiative with a simple premise: Get takeout; support local, independent restaurants. These businesses, so important to the flavor of our neighborhoods and the fabric of our lives, were fighting to make it through the winter. Since then, each week in this space Globe staffers have shared their favorites to inspire and inform you â pizza joints and soul-food spots, neighborhood staples that have been around forever and businesses that opened during the pandemic and managed to make it work.
Pandemic deaths have numbed our humanity and perception of risk
COVID-19 is not the first event to demonstrate the numbing effect of big data, but it reinforces the challenge of developing a true perspective of risk.
This article was first published in the newsletter Managing Outcomes
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On one terrible day in December, COVID-19 deaths on a single day in the United States for the first time exceeded the death toll from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
Commentators noted that the 3054 COVID fatalities in one 24-hour period also exceeded the deaths at Pearl Harbour in 1941, and more than died as a result of the Johnstown flood in 1889; Hurricane Katrina in 2005; Hurricane Maria in 2017; and the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.