Blog Day 138 - Sunday 09 August 2020

It looks like our health minister (Jenny Mikakos) may have had a little too much retsina last night and later in the evening took to twitter in some sort of mea culpa.  Interestingly she started by reminding anybody who could be bothered with twitter of the achievements of the Greek nation, starting with the invention of democracy in 365BC or thereabouts.  She didn't mention if the Greeks invented branch stacking in 364BC. 

Strangely she neglected to mention any other achievements of the Greek people in the subsequent 2,000 years.  I can think of a couple, mainly ouzo and tax avoidance.

I was surprised that her army of minders and spinners let her do this as it probably hasn't done her any favours.  Hard to explain why you wouldn't answer any questions in parliament but happy to ramble on on twitter.

I think that some members of the government are finding running the state in a pandemic is a bit more difficult than being assistant treasurer of the local kindergarten committee from whence they came.

Now for today's figures. Victoria has reported 394 new infections for the last 24 hours. This is our lowest figure since 29 July and is part of a pattern of declining numbers for the last four days.  Unfortunately we also recorded our highest number of deaths at 17 for the last 24 hours bringing the pandemic total to 210 for Victoria.  Of the 17 two were males in their 50's the balance were males and females in their 70's 80's and 90's.  

I daresay the number of deaths will continue to be high due to the higher infection numbers previously reported.  It will take a while for the higher infection numbers to work their way through the system.

The world figures are slightly lower than previous days however as previously noted the Sunday world figures seem to be very unreliable.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – Day 7

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	21,084	412	14,659	394	295	210	659	634	53	43
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	19,804,408	261,782	729,586	5,511
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, don't get Jim's Mowing in to cut your grass and be kind.