Blog Day 197 - 08 October 2020

A deer was sitting at a bar with no eyes, what was it called - no idea.

It is interesting that when you walk up and down the same street every day for 6 months how you notice the subtle changes in the neighbourhood.  I reckon Centre Rd between East Boundary Rd and Tucker Rd is being dug up for the 100th time since this pandemic started (and I know you have told me a 100 million times not to exaggerate).  Not only do they dig up the road but also the footpath and the various side streets.  The dig up the road and footpath then work on something, fill in the holes and then seal it and then a couple of days later they dig it up again.  A new block of flats has had its driveway dug up at least 3 or 4 times in the last month.  

I am thinking that the work is required to upgrade the various utilities required cater for the higher density living in the area caused by all the new apartment building and multi occupancy dwellings.  I hope that it is the developers paying for all the work and not us poor struggling ratepayers and tax payers.

Further to my comments yesterday about the Emergency Management Commissioner, Andrew Crisp, he was also the person who well after the event gave the premier his get out of gaol free card in respect to the use of the ADF in the hotel quarantine program.

First up the Victorian figures for the last 24 hours.  Victoria reported 11 new infections and no deaths in the last 24 hours.  The 11 new infections is an increase on the 6 reported the previous day.  There are 17 Victorians in hospital due to the virus and one in ICU.  The one patient in ICU is the manager of the butcher shop in Chadstone who apparently after appearing to be OK had a relapse and had to be admitted to hospital.

Rolling 14 day figures;

7/10: Metro 9.9, Regional .3, Total 10.2 (14 day mystery cases 12)

8/10: Metro 9.7, Regional .4, Total 10.1 (14 day mystery cases 14)

Worldwide figures for the week.  Worldwide 2,233,000 new infections were reported for the current week in increase from 2,063,000 the week before and 41,800 deaths were reported an increase on 37,000 the week before.  The death figure is significantly more than the previous few weeks and the highest figure since 13/08.

In Europe the new infections for the last week have been dominated by the UK and Spain.  The UK reported 91,000 new infections for the week which was up from 43,000 the week before and 32,000 the week before that.  Spain reported 103,000 new infection for the week an increase from 76,000 the week before.  France reported 90,000 new infections for the week which was an increase from the 82,000 reported the week before.  Italy appears to have things under control with 19,000 new infections but even this is an increase on the 12,000 reported the week before.

Looking at these figures you would say that France is doing ok until you realise on 13/8 they reported only 13,000 new infections for the week.  I understand that UK, Spain and France are imposing new restrictions.  The UK is taking the huge step of closing the pubs at 10.00pm.

The death figures for the week are as follows (last week's figures in brackets) UK 372 (281); Spain 771 (757); Italy 167 (316); France 489 (497).  Although high, apart from the UK these figures are reasonably stable, but remember a few weeks ago these countries were reporting weekly death figures of less than 100.

Now onto the biggies, USA, Brazil, Mexico and India.  Between them these countries accounted for 49% of the new infections for the week and 51% of then new deaths.  

The following are the new infections for this week (last week's figures in brackets) USA 329,000 (308,000); Brazil 189,000 (186,000); Mexico 56,000 (33,000); India 523,000 (580,083).  

Likewise the death figures for these countries for the last week USA 5,022 (5,145); Brazil 4,342 (4,897); Mexico 5,185 (2,815); India 6,846 (7,535).

With the exception of Mexico these countries showed only minor increases or decreases in the number of new infections and deaths.  The figures for USA, Brazil and India while not getting dramatically worse certainly do not represent any level of control over the virus.  

After a few weeks of appearing to have things under control Mexico has experienced a blow out in both numbers of new infections and deaths with both the highest weekly figures since at least 13/8.  

Aren't we lucky that we live on a small island continent near the end of the world.  Nearly as lucky as our New Zealand cousins who live on a couple of small islands at the end of the world.  These are the occasions when a bit of national isolation is a good thing.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – 2^nd Step Restrictions – Day 11

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
27/09	27,033	17	20,145	16	872	784	68	51	12	9
28/09	27,045	5	20,150	5	875	787	65	49	12	8
29/09	27,056	12	20,159	10	882	794	63	46	11	5
30/09	27,076	20	20,171	13	886	798	60	44	8	6
01/10	27,096	18	20,183	15	888	800	55	38	9	6
02/10	27,110	13	20,190	7	890	802	50	38	9	4
03/10	27,122	9	20,199	8	893	805	50	34	9	4
04/10	27,133	11	20209	12	894	806	49	34	9	4
05/10	27,144	10	20,206	9	894	806	49	30	9	3
06/10	27,163	15	20,234	15	895	807	46	21	6	1
07/10	27,183	9	20,239	6	924	809	37	16	5	2
08/10	27,204	23	20,247	11	897	809	32	17	6	1

Country	Population	Infected No	Infected Increase	Deaths No	Deaths Increase No	Deaths per Million Population
Belgium	11,500,000	134,291	17,176	10,092	91	878
UK	68,000,000	544,275	91,011	42,515	372	625
Spain	47,000,000	872,276	103,088	32,562	771	693
Italy	60,000,000	333,940	19,079	36,061	167	601
Sweden	10,000,000	96,677	3,814	5,892	-1	589
France	65,000,000	653,509	89,974	32,445	489	499
USA	331,000,000	7,775,882	328,609	216,760	5,022	655
Brazil	213,000,000	5,002,357	188,771	148,304	4,342	696
Mexico	129,000,000	794,608	56,445	82,348	5,185	638
South Africa	59,000,000	685,155	10,816	17,248	514	292
Russia	146,000,000	1,248,619	72,333	21,865	1,143	150
World	7,800,000,000	36,380,841	2,233,626	1,059,972	41,763	136
India	1,300,000,000	6,832,988	522,721	105,554	6,846	81
Australia	25,000,000	27,182	104	897	11	36
New Zealand	5,000,000	1,861	25	25	0	5

Corona Virus International Stats as at 08/10/2020

And now the stage 4 lockdown 2nd step restrictions remembers.

Remember: if you are doing anything wrong don't get caught, it could cost you $5,000!; you gotta wear a face mask no more face shields - thems the rules; somebody somewhere is testing your poo!; do not under any circumstances annoy a Cassowary; if you need a boost to your morale watch Zulu; keep to your 5km zone and if that doesn't include a beach don't go to the beach; try not to commit perjury (allegedly).