Blog Day 560 - Friday 15 October 2021 - Day 71 of Covid Lockdown V6.0 Extended

After a break for most of this year my U3A Maritime and Military History group has been reactivated by the magic that is Zoom.  We are going to continue to meet regularly by Zoom for the rest of this year and will revisit the situation for the start of the new year in 2022.

I have volunteered to do a couple of presentations to the group so I might get to do a presentation this year by Zoom or next year hopefully face to face.

Breaking news.  Southern Tasmania has gone into a snap three day lockdown after a positive traveller escaped from hotel quarantine on Tuesday.  The naughty escapee had flown in from Melbourne on Monday night and placed into hotel quarantine.  How he escaped is not known but the state premier has described him as uncooperative.  Seeing as how this chap flew into Tassie from Melbourne my sister, who lives in North Western Tasmania will somehow blame me and every other mainlander for this latest disaster to hit the Apple Isle.

Here we are, 10 weeks into the current lockdown and although this Victoria has moved from 'elimination' to 'minimisation' in dealing with the virus neither plan seems to be having much effect.

Although we are in the minimisation phase the lockdown rules being applied are still the exactly same as the elimination lockdown rules and although very stringent does not appear to be having any significant effect on the daily numbers.  

Surely after ten weeks of lockdown there should be some reduction in the virus transmission numbers, it is not as if we have had a "freedom day" which would account for the continuing increase in daily infections

I am at a loss as to what is supposed to be happening in Victoria in this interim stage of leaving elimination behind and moving forward to minimisation.  Whatever it is it doesn't appear to be working with more than 2,000 new infections reported in the state in for each of the last two days.  Hospital, ICU and ventilator numbers continue to increase and there has been 13, 11 and 6 deaths in Victoria over the last three days.

The last few paragraphs have been clumsily worded which I think reflects what we are going through in this state at the moment and the frustration that we are all feeling with life in lockdown.  There appears to be a lack of leadership at all levels of government, The premier and labour government in Victoria have any number of distractions and the PM and the federal government are running around worrying about climate change and achieving zero carbon emissions in 2050 or sum such.  Maybe in the short term everybody should focus on the threat closer to home and affecting the real people of this state and country.

In case you feel my frustration is showing through you could be right, but I will be ok after a hearty meal of canned pickled mutton and fried spam from my Armageddon supplies.

I will post the tables below and you can have a look at em, some more reasoned analysis hopefully over the next couple of days.

    Corona Virus Daily Stats – 15 October 2021 – Day 71 of Covid Lockdown V6.0 Extended

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Aus 1st Dose Vacc	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	NSW Increase	*Aus Active Infection	NSW Active Infection	Vic Active Infection	Aus 2nd Dose Vacc
01/10	107,181	2,064	77.8%	38,476	1,143	866	21,114	9,862	10,944	54.2%
02/10		2,360		39,749	1,488
03/10	111,388	1,928	79%	41,128	1,220	668	21,378	9,215	11,785	56%
04/10					1,377	623
05/10	115,800	2,406	79.9%	44,251	1,763	608	23,376	8,571	14,368	57.4%
06/10					1,413	594
07/10	120,079	2,272	80.5%	47,302	1,638	587	23,435	7,868	15,074	58.4%
08/10					1,823	648
09/10	125,080	2,574	81.9%	51,012	1,965	581	24,984	7,296	17,199	61.2%
10/10					1,890	479
11/10	129,567	2,144	82.2%	54,470	1,612	498	26,276	6,747	19,012	61.9%
12/10					1,466	360
13/10	133,444	2,069	82.8%	57,470	1,572	446	26,479	6,055	19,861	63.4%
14/10					2,297	407
15/10	138,720	2,615	83.6%	61,869	2,179	400	27,123	5,253	21,324	65.4%
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Corona Virus Daily Stats Hospitalisation Etc – 15 Oct 2021 – Day 71 of Covid Lockdown V6.0 Extended
Date	Aus New Infection	Aus Hospital	Aus ICU	Aus Ventilate	Vic New Infection	Vic Hospital	Vic ICU	Vic Ventilate	AUS Daily Deaths	Vic Daily Deaths
01/10	2,066	1,483	300	166	1,143	395	87	59	20	3
02/10	2,360	1,468	302	156	1,488	429	97	54	12	2
03/10	1,928	1,494	298	153	1,220	476	98	57	13	3
04/10
05/10	2,406	1,535	298	161	1,763	517	101	66	11	4
06/10
07/10	2,272	1,517	305	165	1,638	564	115	74	10	2
08/10					1,823	620	114	76	16	5
09/10	2,574	1,437	288	163	1,965	578	117	83	16	5
10/10									11	5
11/10	2,144	1,490	295	170	1,612	677	133	94	16	8
12/10										8
13/10	2,069	1,463	306	173	1,572	705	146	92	17	13
14/10					2,297	706	147	100
15/10	2,615	1,413	311	183	2,179	695	157	101	11	6
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