Blog Day 124 - Sunday 26 July 2020

On my walk today I discovered a new category of people who don't have to wear a mask, people who are walking carrying a take away coffee cup.  However, on the positive side I did see some push bike riders wearing masks, a big "well done" to them.  

This corona virus crisis in the nursing homes is going from bad to worse, as you will see when I discuss today's figures.  In my day in business we used to have a thing called a SWOT analysis which was really an analysis of risk associated with a given situation.  SWOT stood for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.  Any risk analysis in the early days of the pandemic should have thrown up nursing homes and aged care facilities as a weakness and a threat.  If no risk analysis was done, why not? and if it was done and the threat identified why wasn't something constructive done about it? 

A new term has entered the vernacular, we have always had "dodgy Greek builders", now we have "dodgy Greek nursing home operators".

A regular contributor to the blog has provided me with the following dictionary definition;

 

danticipation

noun

the action of anticipating Daniel Andrews announcing the number of Covid 19 infections in Victoria, expectations or prediction of the total.

 "her face became harrowed as the announcement of the press conference being delayed until one pm significantly increased her danticipation".

Thanks to Leanne for providing this amusing little snippet.

For those of you who may be interested, yesterday was the 6 month anniversary of the 1st case of corona virus infection in Australia.  Bought in by a traveller from China.

And now for the bad news.  Four hundred and fifty nine new infections in Victoria in the last 24 hours, this is very close to our recent highest figure of 484.  We seem to get a couple of days of lower figures and then another blow out number.  Victoria has reported 10 deaths in the last 24 hours, the highest daily figure of any state for the entire pandemic.  Of these 7 were males aged between 40 and 70 and 3 were female aged in the their 70's and 80's.  Seven of the 10 were infected in the aged care system.  On the 7th of July Victoria had 22 deaths, 19 days later we have 71 deceased.  During the same time period we have gone from 2,800 infected to 8,000 infected, 31 to 228 in hospital and 5 to 42 in ICU.  One wonders where (and when) this is going to end.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Round Two Lockdown – Day 18

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	140	56	211	206	41	41
25/07	13,948	353	7,744	357	145	65	217	229	44	42
26/07	14,401	453	8,181	459	155	71	239	228	46	42
27/07
28/07

 

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	15,940,381	288,470	642,688	6,218
26/07	16,200,891	260,510	648,445	5,757
27/07
28/07

Remember: to ask "are you OK"?, to work from home when you can, keep your vodka in the freezer, 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, don't put your hat on the counter at the bakery (cause the lady will shout at you) and be kind.