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1 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The US reported +273 new coronavirus deaths yesterday, bringing the total to 602,133. The 7-day moving average declined to 256 deaths per day, its new lowest level since March 27, 2020.
The US had 14,875 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total close to 33.5 million. The 7-day moving average rose to 12,609 new cases per day.
The B.617.2 Delta variant from India now accounts for 20.6% of new infections in the US. The P.1 Brazil variant is also growing, to 16.4%. The B.1.1.7 UK variant remains dominant at 52.2%.
New hospital admissions in the US due to COVID-19 are still declining, but starting to level off, down just -1.3% from a week ago.
The US administered over 1.3 million vaccine shots yesterday, bringing the total to 327 million, or 98.4 doses per 100 people. The 7-day moving average rose back over 1.0 million shots per day.

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2 Jul
If I can impose on your patience, today is a two-fer. For my next MSFS trick, I'll be flying the classic British WW2 fighter, the Spitfire. But not just any Spitfire, mind you, the one-of-a-kind "Black Spit" of the Israeli air force. Image
I'll explain the story behind the 57 Black Spit in a second, but first, let's get this thing started. Starting a Spitfire can be complicated, and it took me a few tries to get it right. Image
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2 Jul
A little something different today, in MSFS. Today I'm flying the Yak-18T from Vnokovo Airport over Moscow. Image
The Yak-18T is not to be confused with the Yak-18, a Soviet military trainer with an almost identical name. The Yak-18T is a different plane, introduced in the 1960s to train Aeroflot pilots. Image
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1 Jul
ISM Manufacturing Index declined -0.6 points in June to a still very strong 60.6.
New orders and production remain >60, indicating strong expansion. Manufacturing employment, however, slipped -1.0 into mild contraction at 49.9. Price pressure rose +4.1 to a sky-high 92.1. That's the highest reading since July 1979.
Companies responding the ISM Manufacturing survey in June report very strong sales, very tight supply chains, and very strong price pressure. "We continue to be oversold, based on what we are currently capable of producing. Lack of labor is killing us.”
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1 Jul
History will have time to judge Donald Rumsfeld’s public service - which includes a lot more than his last stint as GWB’s Sec. of Defense. I too have my criticisms. But the rush to dance on his grave is a bit gross.
When Trump dies, there will be a big public debate over how and whether to honor him. That is unavoidable. But I won’t be showing joy or snark at his final passing. Nor is it necessarily the moment to say what can later be said, about his poisonous legacy.
I see death - including the death of a public figure - as an opportunity not to pass a final verdict, but to reflect on our own mortality and limitations, to quietly admire what was good and take humble lessons of our own from mistakes made or harm done.
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1 Jul
Since I have no real-life travel photos these days, I have to explore the world virtually on MSFS. Here I am coming in for a landing and taking off in an XCub over Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. ImageImageImageImage
Flying into and out of a small grass airstrip in Yendegaia National Park, just across the border in southernmost Chile. ImageImageImageImage
Following an unknown river down to the Lago Cami, in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Image
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30 Jun
Donald Rumsfeld did my alumni interview for Princeton.
I will always remember another conversation I had with Rumsfeld a few years later in the mid-1990s. I was in his office, visiting with a Republican congressional candidate who was asking him for a personal $$ contribution.
In the middle of the meeting, the candidate bragged that his campaign manager (me) had gone to Princeton. Rumsfeld looked straight at me, and I thought "uh oh".
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