Blog Day145 - Friday 27 November 2020

Well, it really is a virus free Friday today as Victoria has reported its 28th day of double zero's, no new cases and no deaths.  We also have no active cases in the community and nobody in hospital due to the virus.  This outcome is from the results of nearly 10,000 tests in Victoria in the last 24 hours.

As the epidemiologists tell us this signals elimination but not eradication.  They also tell us that our greatest risk now is introduction of the virus back into the community by overseas travellers.

Tennis Australia is still pushing for the Australian Open to go ahead in January or early February.  I still think that this is a major risk.  I have this image of some baggy arse 20 year old Uber delivery drive/security guard from the sub-continent trying to tell one of the Williams sisters or their entourages where they can and can't go.  How would that go?

There is also a bit of a lesson in what is happening with the cricket teams in New Zealand at the moment.  Six of the Pakistani team have tested positive for the virus and members of the Pakistani team and West Indies team have been caught breaching their quarantine conditions.  

It was interesting today, I went for a walk up and down the Centre Rd Bentleigh shopping strip and I saw a lot of people still wearing masks, even though we don't have to in that environment.  I wonder how long that will continue for.  Whilst walking I keep my mask tucked under my chin and if I go into a shop or come across a cluster of people on the sidewalk I pop the mask up over my mouth and nose. 

Not much more for today.  Still over 600,000 new infections worldwide in the last 24 hours and nearly 12,500 deaths.  This is the third consecutive day of more than 12,000 deaths worldwide.  

Just reached 34 degrees outside at the moment.

Probably no blog tomorrow as I am going to a thanksgiving lunch which I am looking forward to and will be fun in an American sort of way.  Thanksgiving always reminds me of the Arlo Guthrie song "Alice's Restaurant" which goes for quite a long time (one full side of a LP record) and includes the line "a thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat".  Find it and enjoy it on youtube.

Talking about music I am listening to Coldplay's live concert in Buenos Aires it is fantastic.  I have never heard a concert where the audience sing along to most of the songs like they do on this one and it is so well done it actually adds to the music.  The band doesn't need any backing singers, they have got about 100,000 of them.  

That will do for today, further updates on Sunday.

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