Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The pandemic has upended more than economies. It's scrambled the ways statisticians even measure economies.

So they've turned to data on things like people's mobility, card payments, and restaurant bookings.

We ask if those numbers add up.

And civil rights activist John Lewis was a strident speaker and an intent listener,

always getting himself into what he called good trouble in the name of liberty and decency.

Our Washington correspondent reflects on his exceptional life.

First up, though.

In early April, COVID-19 began to take hold in Canada's care homes, leaving those with loved ones in care in a desperate position. One of them was Dillis Patterson.

It was like something from a Stephen King novel, very, very institutionalized, very narrow halls, very

dark. No air conditioning, no, no air circulation. Her 93-year-old mother was living at the Camilla

care community, a 236-bed home on the outskirts of Toronto. I got a phone call saying that

one person on the fourth floor tested positive. My mom was on the second floor. I was just panicked.

I've seldom felt that level of terror in my life.

And I called and I said I want to take her out. Dillis acted just in time. Over the following weeks, nearly a third of the facility's residents died. When I'd put her to bed, we'd watch TV and we'd watch the news, I said, look, this is what's happening, look, the desk.

I remember one day she said to me, so that's why I'm here.

And I said, yes, and she said, you saved me.

And I said, yes. And she looked at me and she said, thank you.

And I'll never forget that.

Although the disaster that unfolded at the Camilla Care Community was at the extreme end of the spectrum,

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