Blog Day 408 - Monday 10 May 2021

I had an extra shift at the Shrine this morning with a group of 25 or so year 10 students from a school in Sale.  A bit unusual to get year 10's and my word they are big kids.  I am pretty tall for my height and I reckon half these kids were taller than me and that was only the girls!  Anyway they weren't a bad bunch but typical of the age hard to get any real involvement and feedback, but they all said thanks at the end of the tour, very polite

Some of you may think that I am a technology dinosaur, what I am about to share with you will prove you wrong.  A little while ago I mentioned in the blog that I bought one of those "hey google" machines.  Well I am currently listening to music sourced through Pandora on the "hey google" machine transmitted to my television by way of Chromecast and then played through my stereo by way of old fashioned cables.  At the forefront of technology here.

Off to get my 1st vaccination shot tomorrow.

We have just heard on the news that Bert Newton has had a leg amputated below knee.  He had gone into hospital with a toe infection which turned life threatening, so it was either off with the leg or die within months.  Bert is 82 years of age and I think suffers from diabetes so that might have had something to do with the infection in the toe turning bad.

Not much to report on the virus front, in Australia at least.  There 9 new cases reported Australia wide in the last 24 hours, all ROTs.  There are currently 209 active cases in Australia of which 203 are ROTs.  There are 35 people in hospital Australia wide due to the virus with 2 in ICU, one in NSW and one in WA.  Victoria is currently up to something like 76 days without a local infection.

The rest of the world is still rolling along without much improvement in new infections or deaths.  The weekend figures are usually pretty unreliable so I won't dwell on them for too long.  India has recorded a second day of over 400,000 new infections and has also recorded 4,187 deaths which I think is their highest 24 hour death rate.

Brazil is still recording extremely high figures with 63,000 new infections in the last 24 hours and France is still recording daily infections in the low 20,000s.  The US figures are down significantly however I believe that this maybe due to poor record keeping over the weekend, the next couple of days will tell and the UK is continuing to report declining figures.

I will provide a report on my vaccination in the next couple of days, maybe after they bring me around from my fainting spell at the sight of the needle.

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