Blog Day 80: Thursday 11 June 2020

Well, all you footy fans out there the footy, Aussie rules that is, (the real footy) is back in town tonight with a clash of traditional rivals at the MCG.  Collingwood and Richmond are lining up in a spectatorless (is that a word?) stadium.  And horror of horrors the clubs are being made to operate with a football department of only 30!  I wonder if that includes the boot studder.  This week is round 2 of an 18 round series, remember round 1 being played way back in March, seems so long ago.

The government has announced today the driver's licence testing will recommence shortly. Testing was suspended on 25 March.  Apparently there is a backlog of 55,000 learner drivers waiting to be tested.  Won't it be great when we have 55,000 red P platers on the road all at once.

Only 5,254 deaths worldwide in the last 24 hours, I am pleased that the local church is praying for an end to the pandemic, just imagine how many would be dying without their prayers.




One of the new infections in Victoria is a person who attended the protest last Saturday, they are saying that he was not showing symptoms at the time but was probably infectious.  The rest of the infections are from the usual range of sources, another one from the Rydges Hotel cluster, 2 from returned travellers in quarantine and so on.

Be of stout heart and good cheer.

Corona Virus Daily Stats: Day 157

Vic: 1,699 infected (+8 from previous day) - 19 deaths (increase 0)
Aus: 7,285 infected (+11 from previous day) - 
Recovered: 6,732
World: 7,357,011 infected - 416,263 deaths (increase of 5,254 from previous day)

Comments

  1. Richard12 June 2020 at 12:04

    It was good to read that your long weekend comprised of so much eating and drinking, whoever would have guessed. I noticed a comment on the soon to be retiring chief commissioner of police with a comment, why didn't he stop the demonstrators. I can actually answer that with confidence. He and Chairman Dan (CD), will have already organised a sweetheart deal, which will see Graham reemployed by the state gov't to chair or oversee some review into something. The review will be something the Gov't is not looking to good about and will need Graham to say it wasn't their fault. Something like the new contaminated tunnel or anything where CD is just a little on the nose. This is what they always do with puppets, drag them out, dust them off and start pulling strings again. I'm sure it won't take long.

    The new exhibitions at the shrine sound quite good. As long as they don't modernise it to much I'm all for new things, but history is history so we shouldn't try and turn it into something else just because it's modern.

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    1. Graeme12 June 2020 at 12:18

      The new exhibitions at the Shrine are temporary exhibitions and generally run for 6 to 12 months. I am sure that the traditional roles of commemoration, remembrance and education will continue whilst trying to make the Shrine relevant to people who would not usually consider visiting. Did the President of Nauru offer you a sweetheart deal????

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