Blog Day 158 - Saturday 29 August 2020

Got up a bit later than usual this morning after a late night of trivia, eating, drinking and chatting.  Looked outside to blue skies and a forecast temperature of 20 degrees and thought "god is in his/her heaven and all is right with the world", until I came to my senses and realised that there is no god and all is not right with the world, certainly not for the 5,675 people who died worldwide in the last 24 hours and their families.

We are now two weeks away from the end of the current stage four lockdown but nobody from the guvermint is telling us what is going to happen when the lockdown ends.  The buzz word everybody is using is "road map", we all want a road map out of this shemozzle.  The premier is on his little ego driven power trip saying basically that he will tell us what is going to happen when he is good and ready.  How would you like to be trying to run a business in this state, not knowing if you should be getting ready to re-open (if you are closed) maybe get ready to bring your business out of hibernation if you have gone into sleep mode and so on.  Not really what you would call leadership, is it?

The number of new infections for the state are still looking good.  There were 94 new infections in the last 24 hours compared to 113 the day before.  This is the first time that there has been less than 100 infections in a day since 5th July.  Unfortunately there were 18 deaths in the last 24 hours and 13 the day prior.  Victoria has now recorded 513 deaths and there has been 600 Australia wide.  There are 481 Victorians in hospital with the virus and 26 in ICU with 17 on ventilators.  The numbers in hospital and ICU are also declining which should be reflected in a decline in the number of deaths in due course.

Nearly 300,000 new infections reported worldwide in the last 24 hours and over 5,600 deaths.  These figures are remaining high with the variations due to issues in reporting and recording.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – Day 27

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	23,576	289	17,046	282	421	334	680	657	47	44
18/08	23,783	225	17,249	222	438	351	674	665	51	45
19/08	23,997	228	17,454	216	450	363	682	675	52	44
20/08	24,235	246	17,686	240	463	376	682	665	52	43
21/08	24,417	180	17,862	179	470	385	682	626	52	40
22/08	24,607	191	18,034	182	483	396	682	610	52	36
23/08	24,811	204	18,231	208	502	415	631	585	43	32
24/08	24,915	120	18,330	116	517	430	604	629	39	31
25/08	25,053	151	18,464	148	528	438	659	617	38	35
26/08	25,204	156	18,608	149	549	462	644	578	42	39
27/08	25,320	115	18,721	113	572	485	603	522	46	29
28/08	25,451	129	18,827	113	584	497	603	513	46	29
29/08	25,543	108	18,903	94	600	513	543	481	35	26
30/08

 

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	21,824,805	220,613	773,032	4,293
18/08	22,036,149	211,344	776,856	3,824
19/08	22,305,887	269,738	784,338	7,482
20/08	22,568,287	262,400	790,788	6,450
21/08	22,856,134	287,847	796,992	6,204
22/08	23,108,150	252,016	802,971	5,979
23/08	23,379,006	270,856	808,681	5,710
24/08	23,582,985	203,979	812,487	3,806
25/08	23,811,693	228,708	817,005	4,518
26/08	24,050,333	238,640	823,278	6,273
27/08	24,323,111	272,778	828,887	5,609
28/08	24,623,576	300,465	835,615	6,728
29/08	24,906,503	282,927	841,290	5,675

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, laugh at my jokes, have a virtual beer with a Vietnam vet, if you have to ask - the answer is no, remain vigilant, act responsibly, apologise if you are wrong, use Zoom to keep in touch, put your bins out before curfew and be kind.