Blog Day 67: Friday 29 May 2020

For something a bit different today I drove down to Sandringham and went for my walk along the cliff top walking path.  Walked about 3 km in delightful Melbourne autumn weather.  There was quite a few people about and apart from the boot camp people and the boy racers on Beach Road they appeared to be maintaining the appropriate social distancing distances.



A couple of photos from this morning's walk.


I think that sometimes protesters do things that result in the loss of a bit their credibility.  There has been serious public protests in Minneapolis over the last few days, protesting over the death of an African American man at the hands of the police.  The loss of credibility comes about when you see TV footage of the protesters running down the street with looted flat screen televisions.  Why do they always seem to go for flat screen tellies?

Interesting story about the virus infected nurse who drove 400 km from Rockhampton to Blackwater to "watch the sunrise", and not long after her visit a young man in Blackwater died from the virus.  I think that there will be a little more to come out about this in due course.

DLD (Dear Leader Dan) advised us all this morning that if you are working from home at the moment you must continue to do so until the end of June. Naughty Victorians and employers who don't obey his directive will be fined.

Victoria police have issued 6,000 virus related penalty notices, this is more than all the other states combined.  Enthusiastic diligence or plain old bastardry?

An interesting situation has arisen in Melbourne today. A student who is one of a family of five who has tested positive for the corona virus infection attended his high school probably whilst contagious.  His school has been closed down and some other students who were in close contact with him have been place in quarantine.  The situation is complicated a bit because the student had also attended two other schools to attend VET classes.  These schools have not been closed but some students have been placed in quarantine.

I suppose that these things are going to happen as we try and open things up as much as practicable to try and get life and the economy moving again.  We may have to accept this as part of life in the foreseeable future and trust that the authorities jump on top of individual infections ASAP and restrict the potential community transmissions.

A bit of an increase in the number of infections over night - up 17 for Australia wide and an increase in 6 for Victoria, no change in the number of deaths.

Corona Virus Daily Stats: Day 144

Vic: 1,634 infections (+6 from previous day) - 19 deaths (increase 0)
Aus: 7,165 infections (+17 from previous day) - 103 deaths (increase 0)
Recovered: 6,576
World Infections: 5,808,672

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