Blog Day 451 - Saturday 26 June 2021 - Day 02 of Current Rules

As from 11.59pm on Thursday night we have been on further relaxed corona virus rules.  Hospitality services are open albeit with appropriate covid distancing restrictions.  For example, brothels can have up to 50 clients visiting as long as they maintain their 1.5 metre distancing.  Not sure if I wan to know how that works in a brothel or if I want to do the cleaning up.

Murder most vile in the dark mean streets of  Bentleigh East.  At approximately 2.00am this morning two intruders broke into a basement car park in an apartment building, not far from me, and they were confronted by two residents and in the ensuing melee one of the intruders was stabbed and died.  The other intruded subsequently debunked the scene and was caught by the police later.  

I tried to walk past the scene of the crime this morning,  but was prevented by police tape blocking part of the street.  There were still a heap of police cars and police officers around plus a couple of TV camera crews. 

As a light sleeper and always on the alert for miscreants in the area I am surprised that once again I missed an event of this nature.  At the least there would have been the police helicopter doing sweeps of the area which you would think that I would have heard.

This used to be such a nice area.

My word it is all happening here in BE.  The other day I received a flyer in my letter box, sealed with big red letters saying "To the Adult Householder".  As you could imagine that immediately got my attention, as it was meant to.  And guess what, upon opening it is a message from Clive Palmer trying to convince me not to get the Covid vaccine!  The message quotes all sorts of figures to support his stand that the vaccines are more dangerous than the virus, however all unsupported by any references, however it does say that for further information go to "thetruthaboutcovidvaccines.com", which I haven't bothered to do.

But Clive showing that his heart is in the right place has signed off with "God Bless Australia".  Pity Clive didn't put some of the money he is spending on this into paying his employee entitlements for his company in liquidation.

Two bits of good news, the real Premier is back in charge of Victoria from Monday and Le Tour starts tonight.

Just announced, "our Glad" has placed all of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Central Coast and Wollongong into 14 day lockdown.  

And this is the reason for the lockdown in NSW.  Of the 29 new local cases reported in NSW in the last 24 hours only 12 have been in insolation through their infectious period.  Is this a different way of saying that 17 infectious people have been out and about while infectious.

Victoria has announced 4 new cases in the last 24 hours, three of whom were ROTs and one local infection who is the manager of the dry cleaning shop where the infectious guy from Sydney worked.  So far there have been no other local infections linked to the dry cleaning business, have we dodged a bullet there?

So, there are 34 new local infections Australia wide of which only 4 are ROTs.

Currently Australia wide there are 219 active infection cases, of which 105 are ROTs leaving us with 114 active local infections of which NSW has 81 and Victoria 24.

With a bit of luck this might encourage some of the folk amongst who are reluctant to get vaccinated to line up for their jab.

Worldwide, India, USA and Turkey are treading water with the number of daily new infections.  It seems that these countries make significant inroads into the new infection rates and the the progress stalls.  From there they either get a second wind and the decline in numbers picks up again or they ease up on things and the rate starts to go back up as with the UK.

The UK has reported 16,700 new infections in the last 24 hours and 15,900 the day before, this is up from less than 2,000 per day reported in May 21.

Needless to say the daily infection rate in Brazil continues to climb.  The only way that they are going to beat this is when they run out of people.

As we draw nearer to the Olympic Games in Tokyo the Japanese daily infection rate is moving up slightly with 1,665 cases reported in the last 24 hours and 42 deaths reported in the same period.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – 26 June 2021 – Day 30 Lockdown Version 4 (extended – lighter)

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Aus ROTs Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Vic ROTS Increase	*Aus Active Infection	*Aus ROTs	Vic Active Infection	Vic ROTs
28/05	30,074	11	7	20,581	6	2	99	64	39	4
29/05	30,082	9	4	20,587	7	2	104	69	45	10
30/05	30,096	13	8	20,593	6	1	103	63	49	9
31/05	30,106	8		20,598	5		110		54
01/06	30,118	12		20,609	11		114		63
02/06	30,124	8	2	20,614	6	0	121		67	13
03/06	30,138	8	5	20,617	3	0	121	61	69	9
04/06
05/06	30,157	7	2	20,627	6	1	125	54	78	8
06/06	30,173	15	13	20,635	8	6	137	59	85	8
07/06	30,191	16	5	20,646	11	0	138	51	94	8
08/06	30,204	9	7	20,649	3	1	139	53	92	8
09/06
10/06	30,225	15	9	20,654	4	0	135	71	78	15
11/06	30,228	2	2	20,655	1	1	129	66	75	15
12/06
13/06	30,248	10	9	20,660	1	0	126	71	68	16
14/06	30,262	13	11	20,665	6	4	123	72	64	16
15/06
16/06
17/06
18/06
19/06
20/06
21/06	30,355	24	21	20,694	9	8	152	117	54	34
22/06
23/06
24/06	30,404	26	5	20,699	4	3	185	120	52	38
25/06
26/06	30,456	34	4	20,706	4	3	219	105	51	27