Blog Day 218 - Saturday 31 October 2020 - Derby Day

Today is the first day of the Flemington VRC spring carnival and is traditionally "black and white day".  However, this year will be a little different as all of the spring carnival meetings at Flemington with be crowdless.  The only attendees at the track will be the staff required to run the races and the jockeys & trainers and of course the horses on the course.

This morning I decided that I would like to have a bet on the Melbourne cup and decided to reactivate my TAB betting account.  After having my logon rejected as 'account closed' I checked the expiry date on my TAB card and it expired in September 2013, as you can see I don't really have a gambling problem. A pop up screen suggested I ring the customer assistance number and after a couple of false starts I spoke to a very polite young man who opened a new account for me and sent me an email with a link to activate the on line betting account.  So I have activated the on line account and transferred some funds and I am ready to make my fortune on Tuesday.

Today is also Halloween, I am not sure if the kiddies are allowed to go door knocking this year although I doubt that any will come to my place, not after last year anyway.  It took me a while to get the egg stains of the front door but it was worth it. (I thought that it was supposed to be kiddies throwing the eggs, not the parents).

Today's virus figures are looking good, Victoria reported only one new case in the last 24 hours and four the day prior.  No new deaths reported in Victoria or nationally.  Currently Victoria has 71 active cases and NSW is coming second with 54.  It is always good to beat NSW at something but I am not sure about this one.  We are down to two Victorians in hospital out of 16 nationally.

There appears to be no unknown (community transmissions) in Victoria or nationally, which has to be good news.

The 14 Day rolling average:

30/10: Metro 2.6, Regional .0, Total 2.6
31/10: Metro 2.4, Regional .0, Total 2.4

Worldwide the figures are still causing a lot of concern, in the last 24 hours there were 552,000 new infections and 607,000 the day before.  In the last 24 hours there were 7,300 new deaths and in the previous day 7,900 new deaths.  Apart from some previous aberrations in reporting these are pretty much the highest consecutive death figures reported world wide during the pandemic and will remain high while the infection rates continue to remain high.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Stage 4 Lockdown – 3rd Step Restrictions – Day 13

Date

Aus Infected

Aus Increase

Vic Infected

Vic Increase

Aus Death

Vic Death

Aus Hospl

Vic Hospital

Aus ICU

Vic ICU

18/10

27,385

7

20,319

2

904

816

18

12

0

0

19/10

27,399

8

20,323

4

905

817

16

12

1

0

20/10

27,405

6

20,320

1

905

817

16

11

1

0

21/10

27,443

14

20,324

3

905

817

17

11

1

0

22/10

27,458

13

20,329

5

905

817

16

9

1

0

23/10

27,476

10

20,330

1

905

817

19

8

0

0

24/10

27,495

12

20,336

7

905

817

19

8

0

0

25/10

27,513

14

20,343

7

905

817

17

7

0

0

26/10

27,525

6

20,342

0

905

817

17

7

0

0

27/10

27,539

12

20,341

0

905

817

15

5

1

0

28/10

27,552

12

20,342

2

907

819

13

3

1

0

29/10

27,562

8

20,345

3

907

819

15

5

1

0

30/10

27,579

11

20,347

4

907

819

19

5

1

0

31/10

27,585

5

20,347

1

907

819

16

2

1

0


















Date

World Infection

Daily Increase

World Deaths

Daily Increase

18/10

39,937,065

364,022

1,114,183

5,113

19/10

40,268,496

331,431

1,118,294

4,111

20/10

40,648,527

380,031

1,122,992

4,698

21/10

41,040,619

392,092

1,129,591

6,599

22/10

41,462,047

421,428

1,135,697

6,106

23/10

41,992,762

530,715

1,142,744

7,047

24/10

42,461,108

468,346

1,148,689

5,945

25/10

42,923,942

462,834

1,154,736

6,047

26/10

43,323,390

399,448

1,158,807

4,071

27/10

43,777,130

453,740

1,164,515

5,708

28/10

44,234,881

457,751

1,171,272

6,757

29/10

44,739,857

504,976

1,178,527

7,255

30/10

45,346,910

607,053

1,186,385

7,858

31/10

45,898,443

551,533

1,193,734

7,349

And now the stage 4 lockdown 3rd step restrictions remembers;

Remember: we still can't walk into a bar and get a beer; no matter how hard we try sometimes the figures just don't add up; if you are subpoenaed to produce documents to produce all of them!; don't take your eyes off the ball; keep your visitor log book; don't hang around smoking outside a cafe; don't travel to Peru; gamble responsibly. 

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