Blog Day 101: Thursday 02 July 2020

Crikey, I have been off the air with the blog for three days and the world has gone to hell in a handbasket.

• Record breaking infections recorded in Victoria
• Suburbs declared as hot zones and then place in isolation by postcode
• A judicial enquiry to look into the corona virus hotel quarantine stuff ups.
• 1,000 Commonwealth government personnel arrived in the state - not from the ADF though, who do they think they are kidding.
• People in hot zones refusing to be tested.
• DD trying to have international flights diverted to other states - NSW saying "no way jose".
• All other states refusing to admit people travelling from isolation postcodes and not particularly welcoming of anybody from Victoria.
• Rumours that DNA is being collected from swabs to be added to law enforcement data bases.

Apparently there are rumours going around the northern and northwestern suburbs that the guvernmint is collecting the used corona virus swabs and the DNA from those swabs is being added to the law enforcement DNA data bases.  Apparently that is the reason some people are refusing to be swabbed, idiots!  This sort of rumour has the whiff of social media about it, idiots again!

A really funny thing has happened.  You may recall a few days ago DD told the federal government that Victoria didn't want or need 1,000 ADF personnel.  Well, shortly after that DD accepted the federal government offer of assistance of 1,000 Commonwealth personnel.  More pandering to the faceless socialists running this state government.

It would appear that the usual suspects are topping the tables in number of deaths with the USA still well in the lead with Brazil coming in second.  The US recorded 8,500 deaths in the last 10 days and Brazil a tad over 10,000.  India recorded 4,000 for the same period.  The UK doesn't appear to have things quite under control just yet, and if you saw the recent photos of Bournemouth beach you would understand why.  The figures below are a bit skewed because the period since my last spreadsheet is 10 days instead of the usual 7.  I have added Mexico to the list as there appears to be a bit of virus activity occurring there.

Corona Virus International Stats as at 02/07/2020
Country	Population	Infected No	Infected %	Deaths No	Deaths %	Deaths Increase No	Deaths Increase %	Deaths per Million Population
Belgium	11,500,000	61,509	0.5349	9,754	0.08482	58	1	848
UK	68,000,000	313,483	0.4610	43,906	0.06457	1,274	3	646
Spain	47,000,000	296,739	0.6314	28,363	0.06035	40	0	603
Italy	60,000,000	240,760	0.4013	34,788	0.05798	154	0	580
Sweden	10,000,000	69,692	0.6969	5,370	0.05370	317	6	537
France	65,000,000	165,719	0.2550	29,861	0.04594	221	1	459
USA	331,000,000	2,779,953	0.8399	130,798	0.03952	8,551	7	395
Brazil	213,000,000	1,453,369	0.6823	60,713	0.02850	10,054	20	285
Mexico	129,000,000	231,770	0.1797	28,510	0.02210			221
World	7,800,000,000	10,809,447	0.1386	519,046	0.00665	48,348	10	67
Russia	146,000,000	654,405	0.4482	9,536	0.00653	1,425	18	65
South Africa	59,000,000	159,333	0.2701	2,749	0.00466	819	42	47
India	1,300,000,000	605,220	0.0466	17,848	0.00137	4,145	30	14
New Zealand	5,000,000	1,530	0.0306	22	0.00044	0	0	4
Australia	25,000,000	8,001	0.0320	104	0.00042	2	2	4

The figures below show that the majority of the increased infections for the period since last Sunday occurred in Victoria.  Victoria has reported 77 new cases in the last 24 hours from various sources.  Tracing has shown that a large number of the new infections were as a result of the hotel security guard fiasco.  For the last 24 hours NSW has reported 8 new cases, all from overseas travelers in quarantine.

Corona Virus Daily stats: Day 178

Vic: 2,303 infected (+275 since 28/6) - 20 deaths (increase 0)

Aus: 8,002 infected (+316 since 28/6) - 104 deaths (increase 0)

Aus: 7,063 recovered - current hospital 18 (+6), current ICU 3 (+2), current hospital Vic 20 (+13) current ICU Vic 4 (+3)

World: 10,809,447 infected - 519,046 deaths (increase 17,738 since 28/6)