Blog Day 122 - Friday 24 July 2020

My walk today took me along Centre Rd Bentleigh and included a visit to Woolies supermarket.  I reckon the number of people out and about seemed to be less than usual, although vehicle traffic seemed to be the same.  Everybody I saw were wearing their facemasks, even a jogger (well done that person), except for a smoker who had her mask down under her chin so she could suck on her fag.

We now have people who are refusing to give their details or details of their journey to police at the roadblocks.  They appear to be reading from a script that is apparently circulating on social media, well there is a surprise.  And guess what, the police are letting them get away with it.  Did I mention that these miscreants are then boasting about their deeds (misdeeds?) on the same social media.  I won't mention the social media site that is abetting this behavior but it's initials are FB.

Three hundred new cases reported in Victoria for the last 24 hours, this is significantly less than the numbers reported for the last three days.  Hopefully this is the start of a pattern of reduction in virus numbers, if not we will have a real problem.  Six people died in the last 24 hours, three in their 90's and three in their 80's, all in aged care facilities.  Somebody, somewhere, somehow will need to be held responsible for the nursing home debacle.  How would you like to be an 80 year old inmate, sorry, resident of a nursing home at the moment.  

The tables were getting a bit unwieldy so I have reduced the world daily figures to the last seven days.  Worldwide the virus is increasing by more than 270,000 per day for the last couple of days.  With the exception of yesterday when more than 10,000 deaths was reported the last couple of days have reported more than 6,000 deaths.  The majority of the 6,000 deaths would be from the USA, Mexico, various South American countries and India.  Europe in the main seems to have things under control, relative to their earlier figures.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Round Two Lockdown – Day 16

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	13,590	309	7,405	300	139	55	211	206	41	41
25/07
26/07

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
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	15,651,911	278,295	636,470	6,277
25/07
26/07

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, keep your glasses unfogged, obey the police at roadblocks and be kind.