Blog Day 164 - Wednesday 16 December 2020

 I saw a funny thing down at Southland the other day.  There was a middle aged bloke standing there having a smoke with his heavily tattooed lady and he was wearing an ankle bracelet.  Not one of those diamond encrusted ones though.  The only thing attached to his ankle bracelet was a GPS tracking device, and as he was wearing shorts and thongs it was pretty obvious.

I just hope that he was within his allowed range.

Early news is coming out that there maybe a community infection in NSW.  One of the bus drivers carrying airline crews to their accommodation hotels is apparently testing positive.  Early reports state that he began to show symptoms last Saturday and tested positive on Tuesday, contact tracing is being undertaken.

Apparently airline crews are not subject to quarantine.  I suppose that makes sense from an operational point of view but doesn't seem satisfactory as a practice to prevent the introduction of the virus into the community.

In the last 24 hours there were 12 new cases reported Australia wide all from returned overseas travellers, NSW reported 7, Qld 1 and WA 4.  (These figures do not include the recently reported community transmission in NSW).  Victoria received the results of 9,700 tests in the last 24 hours, NSW nearly 12,000 and Qld 3,546.  I daresay given the current scare NSW will be ramping up its testing program.

Currently there are 49 active cases Australia wide, 48 of which are from overseas travellers.

There has been no virus related deaths in Australia since the last reported death on 30/11 and prior to that on 28/10.  Just remember that when I tell you the deaths figure worldwide in the last 24 hours in the next para.

Worldwide, there were 629,000 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, not a world record but close enough.  Worldwide 14,170 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, this is a world record and exceeds the previous highest figure for one day by at least 1,500.

If you are interested that brings the total worldwide death figure for the pandemic to a tad under 1.65 million.  That's a lot of folk, folk!

Corona Virus Daily Stats – Day 10 – Covid Safe Summer 

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
7/12	27,972	7	20,345	0	908	820	29	0	0	0
8/12	27,984	12	20,345	0	908	820	38	0	0	0
9/12	27,992	8	20,345	0	908	820	32	0	0	0
10/12	28,000	8	20,345	0	908	820	34	0	0	0
11/12	28,009	9	20,345	0	908	820	38	0	0	0
12/12	28,024	12	20,350	5	908	820	39	0	0	0
13/12	28,029	4	20,351	1	908	820	35	0	0	0
14/12	28,037	6	20,352	1	908	820	34	0	1	0
15/12	28,045	6	20,352	0	908	820	29	0	1	0
16/12	28,060	12	20,352	0	908	820	29	0	1	0
17/12

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
07/12	67,369,090	522,049	1,541,330	6,986
08/12	67,902,378	533,288	1,549,611	8,281
09/12	68,570,613	668,235	1,562,562	12,951
10/12	69,209,416	638,803	1,574,726	12,164
11/12	70,681,604	660,537	1,587,481	12,755
12/12	71,397,856	716,252	1,600,189	12,708
13/12	72,085,419	687,563	1,610,779	10,590
14/12	72,646,618	561,199	1,618,908	8,129
15/12	73,174,243	527,625	1,627,270	8,362
16/12	73,803,320	629,077	1,641,440	14,170

Remember: Wear your mask when you are buying your Bunnings sausage; no holidays in Britain for a while yet; be careful planning your computer upgrades (my most recent upgrade cost me $1,400); somebody is probably checking your poo; if in doubt get tested (it doesn't hurt, honestly); get the catgut strings in your tennis racket checked; as from 11.59pm tonight you can have a beer at the bar; keep an eye out for Germans with funny little moustaches; don't let possum pee rot your woodwork, beer comes in slabs not crates; if you visit Melbourne don't check into a "hot hotel"; don't bet on a sure thing in the US elections; only 8 shopping days to Christmas, inc today.