Blog Day 47: Saturday 09 May 2020

My word, the bar was set at an extremely high level for last night's zoom trivia.  Shane, Chris and Dave excelled themselves with the zoom presentation, production values and the quality of the questions.  Going to be hard to match that effort, well done.

Chairman Dan (CD), who used to be Comrade Dan and soon to possibly be Great Leader (in his eyes anyway) is now saying that there is a possibility that schools will be reopened before the end of term two, does he have any idea what is going on or is he just revelling in his hour of glory.  He probably thinks that this is his "Churchillian moment".  

Not many people around today, which I think is more as a result of the miserable weather earlier rather than any significant effort to comply with the iso rules.

I received an email from one of the education staff at the Shrine the other day.  National Volunteer week is coming up shortly and usually this would mean lunch provided by the Shrine for each shift of volunteers and last year included a morning tea with the Guv.  As the Shrine will still be closed for National Volunteer week this year the staff are organising a zoom catch up for each shift.  Although we have been keeping in touch mainly by email it will be good to catch up face to face via the good graces of zoom.

As we can see from the figures below Victoria is leading the way with new infections with 10 out of the national total of 15.  I think that the increase in the Vic figures are still centered around the abattoir cluster.  Good to see still no increase in the death figures, that is of comfort to the 'oldies' amongst us.  Queensland has gone 3 days with no new infections, well done.

Current Virus Day Stats: Day 124

Vic: 1,477 (+10 from previous day) - 18 deaths (increase 0)
Aus: 6,927 (+15 from previous day) - 97 deaths (increase 0)
Recovered: 6,125
World: 3,938,064


Comments

  1. Andrew9 May 2020 at 16:01

    No no - it's a "Meat processing plant". So that means they only "process" meat, I assume they make sausages and meat pies etc... Why don't they call them abattoirs anymore?

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    1. Graeme10 May 2020 at 11:45

      If they called them abattoirs some people might realise that their beef bourguignon has bits of dead cow in it.

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