Brick life steady

Brick life continues fairly steady at something more than 150 bricks carried each month. In the snap above, roughly aligned with the FT graphic of COVID related deaths worldwide - with allowance made for the first tick on that graphic to be somewhere in March 2020, rather than 1st January.

It is left as an exercise to readers to compute the correlation between the two series, with and without extraction of the UK element of the second. And to comment thereon. In particular, does the correlation reach a respectable level of significance?

I should add that in the last few weeks, the first series has been disturbed by both holidays and heat, with heat meaning that it was too hot for regular exercise, replaced in part by dawn and dusk brick carrying, rather after the fashion of a wild animal in a hot country.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/02/near-two-years-of-bricks.html. Bricks.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/07/out-of-first-wood.html. Deaths.

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