Blog Day 125 - Monday 27 July 2020

Just back from my walk, the only people I saw not wearing masks were three push bike riders, ironically two of whom were riding on the footpath.  I might have to take some inspiration from the Boulevard Phantom Tack Tosser (BPTT) who seems to have recently made a reappearance.  Apologies to one of my many bike riding readers who recently took a tumble due to the work of the BPTT.  You know that I wouldn't really do anything like that.

Bit hard to find anything positive to talk about at the moment, record high infection figures, old people dying in nursing homes and people proudly flaunting the law and boasting about it.  But, good on the Bunnings staff who calmly and professionally dealt with the obnoxious lady who was giving them a hard time over the wearing of a mask in the store, well done them.  

Attended week three of my university course on TGW this morning and I have got another hour of The Lighthorsemen movie to watch before the Shrine volunteer discussion group on Zoom tomorrow. Talk about busy!

Today's figures are, without being alarmist, alarming.  A record number of new infections reported in Victoria in the last 24 hours, 532 out of a national figure of 549.  Six more deaths bringing the Victorian total to 77.  Five out of the six were elderly residents in nursing homes and one was a male in his fifties.

There is something like 600 infections out of the nursing home disaster and yet apparently some staff are still working in multiple facilities.  I have had some experience with nursing homes, professionally not as an inmate, and the proprietors of these facilities are very mercenary.  The places are run on a very tight budget and I could imagine a casual, contract employee with probably very poor English asking for more or better PPE and getting a very blunt response. 

The world stats appear to be significantly less today but looking back over the last few weeks it appears that Monday's figures are always less.  Maybe some countries don't report their figures over the weekend or in the catholic countries less people get sick and/or die on a sunday.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Round Two Lockdown – Day 19

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	14,935	549	8,696	532	161	77	241	245	46	44
28/07
29/07

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
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	16,412,262	211,371	652,033	3,588
28/07
29/07

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), don't go to work if you are crook and be kind.