Blog Day 114: Wednesday 15 July 2020

I have never been a great fan of Facebook or similar social media sites and in times of national safety and security issues it is the cause of more harm than good.  Apparently yesterday the social media sites were rife with unsubstantiated rumours about Victoria being placed into a stage four lockdown.  Today the social media rumour mill is running rife with rumours about the previous rumour being spread by DD's spinners as part of some grand conspiracy.  

All this does is make people more anxious than necessary and possibly trigger panic buying where it is not necessary.  I am not denying for a moment that we won't end up in stage four lockdown but lets handle it in a managed and controlled manner.  Remember the old WW2 posters "Loose lips sink ships".

There was a police road block in East Boundary Rd yesterday afternoon.  I didn't get close enough to it to see what they were doing but I assume they were checking the reasons people were travelling and where they were coming from and going to.

Now the bad news, even after my stern note to Blogger the table function has not been reinstated, so back to improvisation as necessary.

Three more deaths in Victoria taking the Victoria total to 27.  Two hundred and thirty eight new infections in the state in the last 24 hours, although not the highest figures recorded still high enough to be of concern.  Twenty seven thousand test conducted in the last twenty four hours in Victoria.  Hospital numbers have gone from 31 on 7/7 to 105 on 15/7, it will be interesting to see where this figure ends up before it starts to decline and when it will start to decline.

 Corona Virus Daily Stats - Round Two Lockdown - Day 7

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	9,556	227	3,560	216	107	23	54	49	13	15
12/07	9,797	243	3,799	273	108	24	55	57	16	16
13/07	9,980	192	3,967	177	108	24	67	72	17	17

    14/07             10,250                  283            4,224          270         108             24         105            81            27           26

    15/07             10,501                  251            4,462          238         111             27           90          105            27           27

New infections and deaths on a world wide basis are still not declining.  Although some countries such as Spain, France and Italy, who you will recall had the initial large figures, have now declined to almost nothing but the new countries such as Brazil, Mexico and India have stepped up to the plate and taken their place.  More detailed international figures and analysis will be published tomorrow. (Warning: it may be in the original spreadsheet format).

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	12,625,155	234,421	562,769	5,353
12/07	12,843,910	218,755	567,653	4,884
13/07	13,036,550	192,640	571,574	3,921

    14/07             13,235,751  199,201          575,525                 3,951

    15/07             13,454,490  218,739          581,118                 5,593

Remember to wash your hands, keep your distance and keep your mask on, sneeze into your elbow, and be kind.  Couldn't imagine what it would be like in the crook of your elbow after a few days of sneezing into it, would be like a scene from the "Young Ones".