Blog Day 120 - Wednesday 22 July 2020

As it will be compulsory to wear a mask outdoors from 11.59pm today I decided to wear a mask on my walk today as sort of a test run.  No great difficulty although as has been previously mentioned the mask does fog your glasses up.

Rigged and ready to go in these days of corona virus. Hats on, earphones in and mask on!

We are still waiting on today's figures to be announced but the word on the street is that the new infections will be in the high 400s.  Still no mention of a stage 4 lockdown but a 5km isolation zone is a possibility.  This means that you are not allowed to go anywhere outside of a 5km radius of your home address.  

I understand the hesitation with going to a level four lockdown, but if it is inevitable, and it is looking more and more likely, lets do it and get it over and done with.  Level four could be short and sharp, say 2 weeks, limited exceptions and no loopholes.  

The breakfast guys on 3AW this morning had the right idea, if your question is "Can I............"? the answer is "NO"!  If you have to ask you already know the answer.

The figures for the last 24 hours have been announced.  Australia wide 501 new infections were recorded, unfortunately 484 of these were in Victoria with the balance in NSW.  This is the highest figure for Victoria for the entire pandemic.  We seem to be setting new records, if not daily, at least every couple of days.  No mention yet of going to level four lockdown,  Victoria reported two more deaths, both elderly men who were residents of nursing homes.

The AMA is calling for an immediate escalation of the the lockdown to level four.  There is some discussion about the "reproduction rate".  Apparently this is the rate that one infected person infects another and a rate less than 1 is ideal.  Victoria's reproduction rate is currently 1.2 which means that every infected person infects 1.2 other people, which means the number of infections are increasing.

Australian and worldwide figures are in the tables below.  The world figures are recording at least 200,000 new infections per day with the last 24 hours recording 244,000.  Over 6,000 deaths were recorded worldwide for the last 24 hours.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Round Two Lockdown – Day 14

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	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
16/07	10,807	332	4,750	317	113	29	111	109	28	29
17/07	11,233	436	5,165	428	116	32	114	122	30	31
18/07	11,441	232	5,353	217	118	34	126	110	32	35
19/07	11,802	361	5,696	363	122	38	116	130	26	28
20/07	12,069	296	5,942	275	123	39	135	147	29	31
21/07	12,428	387	6,289	374	126	42	156	174	33	36
22/07	12,894	501	6,739	484	128	44	183	205	38	40
23/07
24/07

Date	World Infection	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
16/07	13,691,626	237,136	586,821	5,703
17/07	13,946,637	255,011	592,677	5,856
18/07	14,194,139	247,502	599,416	6,739
19/07	14,424,817	230,678	604,883	5,467
20/07	14,640,348	215,530	608,856	3,973
21/07	14,852,700	212,352	613,213	4,357
22/07	15,096,315	243,615	619,520	6,307
23/07
24/07

Remember: to ask "are you OK"?, to work from home when you can, wash your hands, keep your distance, keep your mask on, sneeze into your elbow (yuk), don't touch your face, press the traffic light button with your foot, eat your vegies, don't ride your bike on the footpath, sanitize often and be kind.