Blog Day 128 - Thursday 30 July 2020

Looks like I was a trifle optimistic yesterday with my view of the corona virus situation in Victoria.  The last 24 hours has been a shocker.

I must admit I find the latest in the AFL corona virus saga amusing.  The AFL is spending millions to keep the competition running and moving the players, officials and WAGS into quarantine hubs in Queensland.  And what do the WAGS do when they arrive, break quarantine of course, and what do you do when you break quarantine, you tell the world about it on social media.  The story I like is the wife of one of the players broke quarantine to go to a day spa and then posted it on social media.  I initially thought that she was just stupid but have just found out that she is probably greedy as well, as she most likely got paid for her social media post as she is an "influencer".  Nice work if you can get it.

As I said the figures for Victoria in the last 24 hours are a shocker.  After two days of declining infections Victoria has reported 723 new infections for the last 24 hours.  Victoria has also reported 13 new deaths, 10 of which were in the aged care system.  Out of a total of 189 deaths nationally for the entire pandemic Victoria has recorded 105 of them. We have been wearing masks for a week or so now, is it too soon to expect some improvement in the infection rates due to the wearing of the masks, if it is going to happen?

Still no mention of a stage 4 lockdown.

No good news in the world figures either.  Although some of the European hot spots were talking about a second wave through the week it is not appearing in the figures as yet.  Apart from the UK the European countries are all reporting less than 100 deaths for the week.  The UK reported 460 which is about the same as the previous week.

Last week there was a total of 40,000 deaths reported worldwide.  The USA, Brazil, Mexico and India were responsible for 24,000 of these deaths with the USA reporting nearly 7,700 for the week, Brazil also reported 7,300 deaths for the week.  Even with all the dramas that we currently have in Victoria there are obviously a lot worse places to be in the world.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Round Two Lockdown – Day 22

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
30/07	16,295	744	9,998	723	189	105	323	312	46	34
31/07

Country	Population	Infected No	Deaths No	Deaths %	Deaths Increase No	Deaths Increase %	Deaths per Million Population
Belgium	11,500,000	66,662	9,833	0.08550	28	0	855
UK	68,000,000	301,455	45,961	0.06759	460	1	676
Spain	47,000,000	329,721	28,441	0.06051	15	0	605
Italy	60,000,000	246,776	35,129	0.05855	47	0	585
Sweden	10,000,000	79,782	5,730	0.05730	63	1	573
France	65,000,000	185,196	30,238	0.04652	66	0	465
USA	331,000,000	4,568,037	153,840	0.04648	7,657	5	465
Brazil	213,000,000	2,555,518	90,188	0.04234	7,298	9	423
Mexico	129,000,000	408,449	45,361	0.03516	4,171	10	352
South Africa	59,000,000	471,123	7,497	0.01271	1,557	26	127
Russia	146,000,000	828,990	13,673	0.00937	928	7	94
World	7,800,000,000	17,184,770	670,152	0.00859	39,959	6	86
India	1,300,000,000	1,584,384	35,003	0.00269	5,113	17	27
Australia	25,000,000	16,298	189	0.00076	56	42	8
New Zealand	5,000,000	1,560	22	0.00044	0	0	4

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 (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, the lime in your V & T is a good source of vitamin C, don't go to a day spa and then boast about it on FB, and be kind.