Blog Day 109: Friday 10 July 2020

Saw a funny thing today, an older gentleman walking down Centre Rd wearing a mask, but the mask was down under his chin, so that he could smoke his cigarette.  He was also wearing one disposable glove on the hand that was holding his cigarette.  If we all have to wear masks that is how I am going to wear mine!

DD has told us today that we should be wearing masks where social distancing is impossible or difficult.  He did use the example of in a cab or uber or in a busy supermarket.  Some millions of masks are to be made available to Joe or Josephine Citizen, although as usual there is no detail on how this is going to work.  It would be nice to have a policy introduced with the infrastructure already in place to manage it.

I am using a new version of Blogger and hopefully it maybe a bit more user friendly for importing spreadsheets.  It also has a table function that may be useful, I have used the table function today.  The yellow line as at 09/07 is day one of this six week lockdown.

As we can see Victoria reported 288 new infections in the last 24 hours.  This is an extremely high figure by our standards (not so for most of the rest of the world), but this figure was as a result of 37,588 tests being conducted in the last 24 hours.  Obviously the more tests you do the more infections you find, hopefully by detecting these infections it takes the infector out of circulation and away from the infectees.

The hospitalisation and ICU admissions are both increasing but so far not translating into a significant escalation in the number of deaths.

Corona Virus Daily Stats - Round Two Lockdown - Day 2

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospital	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
07/07	8,755	199	2,824	191	106	22	34	31	5	5
08/07	8,880	142	2,942	134	106	22	39	35	10	9
09/07	9,056	179	3,098	165	106	22	46	41	8	7
10/07	9,374	304	3,397	288	106	22	45	47	10	12
11/07

Some daily world figures are in the table below.  Daily infections world wide seem to be running at around the 200,000 mark and daily deaths at around 5,000 per day.

Corona Virus Daily Stats - World Figures

Date	World Infections	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
07/07	11,756,373		541,085	4,309
08/07	11,949,281	192,908	546,601	5,516
09/07	12,170,565	221,284	552,112	5,511
10/07	12,390,734	220,169	557,416	5,304
11/07

That will do for today, hopefully the tables are clearer but they are more time consuming for me to complete.  What's that I hear you say? You could be right, what else have I got to do.