Blog Day 298 - Tuesday 19 January 2021

Today it is 12 months since the health authorities in Australia publicly raised their concerns about this little thing called a Corona virus to be known as Covid 19.  This was probably the first time we heard of Brendan Murphy who was at the time the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer.  He was the first of a number of otherwise anonymous health bureaucrats who would become familiar to us over the coming months.

Little did we know at the time what a saga we would be heading out on.  The virus running rampant on cruise ships, closed international borders, lots of restrictions on day to day life that we never thought that we would experience in our lifetime, travel restrictions, curfews, shortages of toilet paper, 10s of millions of people being infected worldwide, over 2 million deaths and the infections and deaths continue seemingly unabated - the list goes on.  And who would have thought that 12 months later we would be still experiencing the effects of living with the virus. 

And now for something a bit lighter. The ace tennis star Bernard Tomic and his "model & influencer" girlfriend Vanessa Sierra (has anybody ever heard of her?) are currently in hard lockdown which means that they cannot leave their hotel room for any reason at all for 14 days. Anyway one of Ms Sierra's complaints is that she cannot get her hair washed, I kid you not and I quote her below:

"This is the worst part of quarantine: I don’t wash my own hair,” Ms Sierra said.
I’ve never washed my own hair. It’s just not something that I do.
I normally have hairdressers that do it twice a week for me, so this is the situation that we’re dealing with … I can’t wait to get out of quarantine just so I can get my hair done — the simple luxuries in life.” 

She also pointed out to us that she can't do poo poo in front of Bernard, and hasn't gone for 3 days, although she probably only eats lettuce leaves so there probably isn't much in there anyway.

Bernie and Vanny have been filling in their time playing video games which surprises me a little, I would have thought that Bernie would have taken the opportunity to finish reading War and Peace and Vanny would have been listening to Beethoven's 9th whilst discussing with Bernie which of democracy and Marxism will survive the 21st century.

Anybody want to hazard a guess as to how Bernie's and Vanny's hardships are being treated by the long suffering Victorian general public, not a lot of sympathy I reckon.

And now back to the real world, a world that the vacuous Bernie and Vanny would hardly realise exists.

Victoria reported 4 new cases in the last 24 hours all ROTs and 3 associated with the AO tennis players, NSW & Qld reported 2 and 3 new cases respectively, all ROTs and Australia wide there were 9 new cases, all ROTs.  There were the results of 15,600 tests reported in Victoria in the last 24 hours, 10,600 in NSW and 6,700 in Qld.

Currently there are 34 active cases in Victoria including 25 ROTs, 104 in NSW excluding 75 ROTs and 26 in Qld all ROTs.  There are a total of 195 active cases nationally 82 of which are ROTs excluding the 75 NSW ROTs.

I have access to some worldwide vaccination figures.  The following are the top 10 countries by numbers of vaccinations administered per 100k of population.  Of the 40 million plus doses administered worldwide Israel is the highest per 100k population, the US the highest with outright vaccinations and New Guinea is the lowest with 25 doses nationally.  Of course Australia is not on the scoreboard as yet as we haven't actually administered and vaccines as yet.

         Country                                                Doses            per 100k pop

Israel	2,547,369	29,902
UAE	1,971,521	20,177
Bahrain	141,563	8,627
UK	4,514,802	6,686
USA	12,279,180	3,732
Denmark	170,012	2,945
Malta	11,705	2,660
Slovenia	42,035	2,022
Spain	897,942	1,921
Italy	1,153,501	1,905
Worldwide	40,401,540	524

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Aus Death	Vic Death	Aus Hospl	Vic Hospital	Aus ICU	Vic ICU
01/01	28,421	13	20,376	8	909	820	21	0	0	0
02/01	28,441	13	20,388	12	909	820	19	0	0	0
03/01	28,483	14	20,391	3	909	820	26	0	0	0
04/01	28,499	16	20,395	4	909	820	30	0	0	0
05/01	28,518	14	20,399	4	909	820	26	0	0	0
06/01	28,533	10	20,402	3	909	820	36	0	0	0
07/01	28,544	8	20,402	0	909	820	35	0	0	0
08/01	28,658	21	20,403	1	909	820	40	0	0	0
09/01	28,582	12	20,404	1	909	820	40	0	0	0
10/01	28,595	13	20,410	6	909	820	41	0	0	0
11/01	28,611	16	20,411	1	909	820	47	0	1	0
12/01	28,633	19	20,411	0	909	820	43	0	1	0
13/01	28,647	13	20,414	3	909	820	45	0	1	0
14/01	28,658	8	20,414	0	909	820	47	0	1	0
15/01	28,665	7	20,414	2	909	820	47	0	1	0
16/01	28,689	20	20,417	3	909	820	48	0	1	0
17/01	28,707	18	20,424	7	909	820	47	0	2	0
18/01	28,721	13	20,428	4	909	820	36	0	2	0
19/01	28,730	9	20,432	4	909	820	33	0	1	0

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
01/01	83,771,040	1,448,870	1,824,387	28,095
02/01	84,342,947	571,907	1,834,255	9,868
03/01	84,984,546	641,599	1,843,112	8,857
04/01	85,489,462	504,916	1,850,209	7,097
05/01	86,041,606	552,144	1,859,179	8,970
06/01	86,834,551	792,945	1,875,519	16,340
07/01	87,619,457	784,906	1,889,556	14,037
08/01	88,495,963	876,506	1,906,630	17,074
09/01	89,331,906	835,943	1,921,160	14,530
10/01	90,077,029	745,123	1,934,801	13,641
11/01	90,662,902	585,873	1,942,390	7,589
12/01	91,298,922	636,020	1,952,020	9,729
13/01	91,983,757	684,835	1,968,523	16,503
14/01	92,747,904	764,147	1,985,405	16,882
15/01	93,507,781	759,877	2,001,209	15,804
16/01	94,282,394	774,613	2,016,604	15,395
17/01	94,949,414	667,020	2,030,914	14,310
18/01	95,479,062	529,648	2,039,601	8,687
19/01	96,005,763	526,701	2,049,238	9,637

Due to having to copy and paste some tables etc into today's blog the formatting might be a bit skewwhiff, if so don't blame me - blame the blog.