Blog Day 160 - Monday 31 August 2020

Blog Rant Number 1: On my walk today I was walking behind a young couple with a baby in a pusher, neither of the couple were wearing masks and the male was smoking whilst walking next to the baby. They also ensured that they took up the entire footpath and the certainly didn't look as though they would have taken kindly to any constructive criticism or advise about wearing masks or smoking around the baby for that matter.  (And this used to be such a nice suburb).

Blog Rant Number 2: In today's virus figures we have been advised that 41 new deaths were added to the state total overnight.  Eight of these were deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, however, and get this, 33 of these deaths are previously unrecorded "historical" deaths.  Thirty three deaths not previously advised, or recorded, or reported, or just missed.  This pandemic has been with us for 5 months and we still can't get the counting and reporting of the deceased right.  It will be interesting to listen to the premier try and skate his way around this today. (In his news conference this morning the premier couldn't be bothered trying to explain this and has left it up to the CHO whose explanation will need translating and investigation.)

I did hear that the person who maintains these figures has been on a RDO and the other 15 people in the department have been busy with diversity and cultural awareness training.

It was obvious that there was something amiss this morning as for the last couple of weeks the daily figures have been released around 9.00am each morning.  Prior to that the worse the news the later the release of the figures and the later the media conference, so when the figures were late being released today I was expecting there to be an increase in the number of infections.  Fortunately it wasn't that but a stuff up with the reporting of the number of deaths. 

The premier has announce this morning that the program for moving ahead and hopefully out of this mess will be announced next Sunday.

Victoria has recorded 73 new infections for the last 24 hours, this is a good result and is continuing the downward trend.  As advised above Victoria has reported 41 new deaths, 8 of those in the last 24 hours and 33 at some time currently undeclared.  (The premier hasn't given any reason for the 33 deaths not being previously reported).  There are 453 Victorians in hospital out of a nationwide figure of 501, 21 Victorians in ICU and 13 on ventilators.

The worldwide infection and death figures are lower today but as we have seen in the past the Monday figures are hopelessly unreliable and I would expect the figures to rise again as the week progresses.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – Day 29

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	25,670	125	19,015	114	611	524	510	472	32	25
31/08	25,744	74	19,088	73	652	565	501	453	31	21

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
30/08	25,164,818	258,315	846,757	5,467
31/08	25,382,497	217,679	850,502	3,745

And now the State of Disaster remembers;

Remember: please don't go to the beach, 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, don't smoke around your baby and be kind.