Blog Day 121 - Thursday 23 July 2020

Day one of compulsory mask wearing today.  On my walk I saw two adults not wearing masks, one was a lady jogger and the other was an old codger wearing a scarf over his mouth but not covering his nose.  This exception for runners and bike riders has still got me beat.  If you can't run or ride your bike wearing a mask find some other way of exercising.  The other thing I noticed was that there were less people around, maybe the mask thing is reminding people how serious this is.

Nice story, when I went into the bakery (essential supplies) I naturally took my hat off, as a gentleman does when indoors, and the lady there complimented me on my manners.

Many thanks to those of my readers who have offered suggestions, both on and off blog, on how to stop my glasses fogging up whilst wearing a mask, some of them even printable.  However as often seems to be the case these days I have moved to Plan B.  Plan B is not wearing glasses at all and taking my chances with tripping over small dogs and children and bumping into phone boxes and the like.

The daily figures have reported an increase of 403 new infections in Victoria, this is down in the previous day's figure of 484 but still one of the highest figures recorded.  Victoria has recorded a futher five deaths, a male in his 50's, a male and a female in their 70's, a male in his 80's and a male in his 90's.  The female and the males in their 80's and 90's were all residents of aged care facilities.  We haven't been told if they were in the same facility or not.  The circumstances surrounding the infections and deaths in the aged care facilities will need to be investigated at some time.  I wonder if there is the possibility of criminal charges being laid, is there such a thing as criminal negligence?

The daily world figures have worryingly shown a larger than usual increase in new infections and virus related deaths.  Lets hope that is an aberration and the next few day show things getting back to "normal" 

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Round Two Lockdown – Day 15

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	13,301	423	7,125	403	133	49	214	201	42	40
24/07
25/07

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	15,373,616	277,301	630,193	10,673
24/07
25/07

The traditional European countries of Spain, Italy and France still seem to have things under control with each reporting less than 100 deaths in the last week.  The UK reported 448 deaths which believe it or not is a good result for them.  Brazil reported more than 7,000 deaths, USA 6,000 and Mexico over 4,000 for the week.  South America seems to be the current hot spot with Peru and Chile also reporting significant numbers of infections and deaths.  South Africa is reporting significant infection rates but that doesn't seem to be translating into a high death rate, what is their secret?

Corona Virus International Stats as at 23/07/2020

Country	Population	Infected No	Deaths No	Deaths %	Deaths Increase No	Deaths Increase %	Deaths per Million Population
Belgium	11,500,000	64,258	9,805	0.08526	17	0	853
UK	68,000,000	296,377	45,501	0.06691	448	1	669
Spain	47,000,000	314,631	28,426	0.06048	13	0	605
Italy	60,000,000	245,032	35,082	0.05847	85	0	585
Sweden	10,000,000	78,504	5,667	0.05667	95	2	567
France	65,000,000	178,336	30,172	0.04642	52	0	464
USA	331,000,000	4,100,875	146,183	0.04416	6,043	4	442
Brazil	213,000,000	2,231,871	82,890	0.03892	7,367	10	389
Mexico	129,000,000	362,274	41,190	0.03193	4,284	12	319
South Africa	59,000,000	394,948	5,940	0.01007	1,487	33	101
Russia	146,000,000	789,190	12,745	0.00873	975	8	87
World	7,800,000,000	15,373,616	630,193	0.00808	43,372	7	81
India	1,300,000,000	1,239,684	29,890	0.00230	4,961	20	23
Aus	25,000,000	13,302	133	0.00053	20	18	5
New Zealand	5,000,000	1,555	22	0.00044	0	0	4

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, keep your glasses unfogged and be kind.