Blog Day 130 - Saturday 01 August 2020

After yesterday's popular frivolities the blog is back to the dark world of corona virus today.

I went to Woolies supermarket yesterday and noted that some shelves were starting to look a bit empty but not the panic buying stuff of the original lockdown but more general items which makes me think that the problems are more on the supply side than panic buying.  In observing people at the checkout I got the impression that people were "stocking up" rather than panic buying.

On my  walk today apart from one push bike rider I observed only two people not wearing masks.  But it was OK as they were in the 3rd group of people excused from wearing a mask, those people carrying take away coffee cups.  I think that there is also now a 4th group exempted from the mask wearing rules that apply to the rest of us, those people wearing designer exercise wear but not actually exercising.

Now for some numbers (happy Andrew???).  Victoria recorded 397 new infections in the last 24 hours compared to 627 the previous day.  We will need to see some lower numbers for a few days to start to take any comfort from them.  Victoria reported 3 deaths in the last 24 hours and 8 in the day before that, taking our total number of deaths to 116, the majority of the deaths are still as a result of infections in nursing homes and aged care facilities.  I think that NSW has reported one death, their first in some time.

DD did mention this morning that there is some concern in Victoria over the number of community transmissions that haven't been able to be tracked to any known source and further concern that they don't know how many of these there are out in the community.  The state and federal governments have been in discussion and the feeling is that further restrictions may be announced on Sunday evening.  There is a possibility that there may be a limited lockdown of certain trouble spot industries, such as meatworks.  Anybody else rushing out to stock up on pork knuckles???

The daily world wide figures are hovering around the 280,000 plus new infections per day and 6,000 plus deaths per day.  If these figures are maintained the world death figures will exceed 700,000 in the next three or four days, now that is scary stuff.

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	16,904	649	10,577	627	196	112	330	349	40	37
01/08	17,276	414	10,931	397	201	116	366	379	44	41
02/08

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
30/07	17,184,770	289,568	670,152	6,676
31/07	17,473,538	288,768	676,702	6,550
01/08	17,754,190	280,652	682,885	6,183
02/08

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, pay with a card, don't use cash (because you are wearing a mask you could run away without paying) and be kind.

(Andrew suggested the pay with a card, I added the run away bit).