Blog Day 137 - Saturday 08 August 2020

After yesterday's frivolities we are back to the hard cruel world of living in a virus lockdown.

In the last 24 hours Victoria recorded a further 466 new infections and 450 the day before. This is the third day in a row where we have had less than 500 new infections.  Is this the long awaited flattening of the curve? Or are we going to be blown out of the water tomorrow with a 700 plus? Time will tell.

Victoria had another 12 deaths in the last 24 hours with a further 11 the day before.  Of these 12 deaths one was a male in his 30's, 2 males in their 70's, 2 males & 3 females in their 80's and 4 females in their 90's.  Six of these were from the aged care system.

For those who believe that the younger set are not vulnerable to the virus Victoria had 2 deaths of males in their 30's this week.  

As at 8 August Victoria had 636 corona virus hospital patients and 44 people in ICU.  One month ago we had 35 virus patients in Victorian hospitals and 9 in ICU.  

The world wide figures are remaining stubbornly high with 287,000 new infections recorded in the last 24 hours, this appears to be increasing slightly most days.  World wide there was 6,500 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, this figure has been reasonably consistent over the last few days.  But still no good news.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – Day 6

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
02/08	17,920	685	11,557	671	208	123	366	385	44	38
03/08	18,318	444	11,937	429	221	136	408	416	46	35
04/08	18,728	451	12,335	439	232	147	439	456	43	38
05/08	19,444	740	13,035	725	247	162	483	538	44	42
06/08	19,890	483	13,469	471	255	170	566		51
07/08	20,270	461	13,867	450	266	181	600	607	52	41
08/08	20,697	475	14,283	466	278	193	632	636	51	44
09/08
10/08

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
03/08	18,234,936	211,579	692,794	3,855
04/08	18,442,382	207,446	697,175	4,381
05/08	18,700,833	258,451	704,347	7,172
06/08	18,973,478	272,645	711,181	6,834
07/08	19,255,137	281,659	717,655	6,474
08/08	19,542,626	287,489	724,075	6,420
09/08
10/08

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.

And now the State of Disaster remembers;

Remember: to stay indoors between 8.00pm and 5.00am, stay safe & stay strong, respect the 5km limits, don't try & get a haircut, drink your coffee at home, don't dither at the supermarket checkout and be kind.