Blog Day 145 - Sunday 16 August 2020

I am a little tired today as late last night I discovered another little gem on Youtube and sat up well after my bedtime watching it.  James Corden the host of a late night television show has done a series called "Crosswalk the Musical".  Each clip goes for 5 to 10 minutes and he and his cast perform songs from various musicals, but they do it on pedestrian crossings in busy city intersections whilst the traffic lights are red and the traffic is stopped.  Les Miserable was performed at a crossing in Paris, Mary Poppins in London and so on.  He also has some guest stars including Hugh Jackman (who he insists on calling Huge Jackman), Ben Kingsley and Andrew Lloyd Webber.  It is very clever and very funny.  Make sure that you have a look at the New York one with Hugh Jackman.

Have a look at the link below and I am sure that you will get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjp1kbxEdGU

Today's figures are looking better for Victoria and dare I suggest it might now be a bit of a pattern.  Victoria reported 279 new infections for the last 24 hours, this gives us four consecutive days in a row of less than 400 infections.  Unfortunately the number of deaths was up again at 16 for the twenty four hours resulting in a total of 309 deaths for the state.  We have 662 in hospital which has been reasonably stable for the last five days or so.  Forty Victorians are in intensive care and 29 are on ventilators.

The world figures are bouncing around a bit but I think that is more as a result in irregularities in gathering information than anything else.  Still reporting 260,000 plus new infections daily and averaging 5,000 to 6,000 deaths daily.  No good news here.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – Day 14

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	21,397	337	14,957	322	314	229	657	640	51	47
11/08	21,713	353	15,251	331	332	247	664	650	54	47
12/08	22,127	428	15,646	410	352	267	673	662	51	43
13/08	22,417	290	15,924	278	361	275	685	664	51	37
14/08		387	16,234	372	372	289		659		41
15/08	23,035	312	16,517	303	379	293	680	661	47	41
16/08	23,287	284	16,764	279	396	309	680	662	47	40
17/08

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
13/08	20,794,831	273,187	752,372	6,454
14/08	21,080,357	285,526	753,467	1,095
15/08	21,343,945	263,588	763,119	9,652
16/08	21,604,192	260,247	768,739	5,620
17/08

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, get some virus approved exercise, shop at Harvey Norman for good service, be honest, if in doubt wear a mask and a face shield, remember the fallen, get plenty of sleep and be kind.