Blog Day 127 - Wednesday 29 July 2020

Some newspapers were reporting yesterday that some groups of protesters were going to hold rallies at "shrines" on Friday.  Apparently by "shrines" they meant Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance and other memorials in other states.  The articles have disappeared from the Age and Australian web sites but there is still an article in the Herald Sun site.

What I found interesting was that one of the groups involved was a group that is campaigning for the introduction of the red ensign as Australia's national flag instead of our current blue ensign flag, they call themselves 'Muster for the Duster'.  I remember this group turning up at an Anzac day service at the Shrine a couple of years ago.  They were carrying large red ensigns and waving them in the crowd during the service.  After the service some of them were hanging around in the sanctuary and I asked them to keep moving as other people were lining up to enter and they were a bit surly and belligerent about being asked to move.  I got the impression that they may have been from a rural area, probably all related and from a limited gene pool.  

Looks like the "Muster for the Duster" people may now be part of a disparate group of nutters involved with the anti mask and the corona virus conspiracy groups - god help us.  Never thought that I would say that.

For the second consecutive day in a row Victoria has experienced a significant drop in the number of new infections.  For the last 24 hours Victoria reported 295 new infections, the lowest figure since 20/07.  Lets hope this is some sort of pattern and the reduction in infections continues.  Unfortunately no such good news on the deaths in the state with a further 9 being reported in the last 24 hours.  Seven of these 9 were as a result of infections from the nursing home outbreaks.

Worldwide figures have bounced back up after a couple of lower days, both in number of new infections and deaths.  I will have a look at some of the country figures tomorrow.

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	15,302	398	9,049	384	167	83	259	260	49	45
29/07	15,582	318	9,304	295	176	92	275	307	47	41

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	16,648,616	236,354	656,621	4,588
29/07	16,895,202	246,586	663,476	6,855

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 sneeze with your mask on, 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, the lime in your V & T is a good source of vitamin C and be kind.