Blog Day 566 Thursday 21 October 2021 - Day 77 of Covid Lockdown V6.0 Extended

 After 11 weeks of lockdown (this time around) we are being released from some of the more onerous rules of the lockdown.  As usual there is the usual confusion as to who and what can open, who needs to single jabbed and who needs to be fully vaxxed and who can go where and when.

We are still limited to travel within metropolitan Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsular, can only have 10 visitors to the home in any one day, most general retail still can't open, hospitality can open but with strict occupancy limits, we still have to wear masks etc, etc, etc.

I have just returned from my walk and by the number of people and vehicles around I'm thinkin that some folk are getting a head start on "freedom day".

Of course barber shops can open from 11.59pm tonight but I reckon it will take a week or so to get a seat, given the number of scruffy blokes around and the limits on numbers that the barbers can service at any one time.  Still I thought that this might be an opportune time to post a couple of photos of me with my current covid hairstyle.  The first is with bed hair as seen when first arisen and the second is after my morning beauty routine.  Just make sure that there are no small dogs or children around when you view these photos, they may be scarred for life.

I will post further photos after I get trimmed and prettied up a bit.  (Hmmm selfies aren't very attractive at the best of times).

Not much good news on the numbers front.  After a few day of declining daily infections in Victoria the numbers are trending upwards again with 2,235 new cases reported in the last 24 hours and 12 new deaths.  

In Victoria 70.51% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated and 90% has received their first inoculation.  Nationally the figures are 70.8% and 85.8% respectively.  These are great figures and given 90% of the Victorian population has received their 1st jab it is reasonable to think that at least these folk will get their 2nd jab.  This will give the state at least a 90% vaccination rate, and most likely more.

Victorian hospital figures are remaining reasonably even with 779 patients in hospital with covid, 141 of these are in ICU and 96 are on ventilators.  Although at 12 deaths in the last 24 hours these figures are increasing a bit.  

Victoria now has the dubious honor of breaking through the 1,000 death mark virus related deaths, 1,005 deaths during the duration of the pandemic to be exact.

Nothing to be proud of there, is there Mr Premier!

I just had a quick look at the UK figures, they look like they might have a bit of a problem there, maybe living with covid isn't working as well as what they would have liked.  Daily new infections are up around the mid to high 40,000s and daily deaths range from 40 to 220 per day.  

Tomorrow's blog will come to you from a newly liberated Melbourne, it will be like a Norman Rockwell painting with children playing with hoops in the street, people patting puppies, dad watching on smoking a pipe and mum putting an apple pie out on the window sill to cool in a perfect middle class Melbourne scene, imagine Camberwell in the 1950's.  Crikey, how do I get there!

    Corona Virus Daily Stats – 21 October 2021 – Day 77 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%
16/10					1,993
17/10	143,135	2,172	84.4%	65,605	1,838	301	29,087	5,131	23,376	67.2%
18/10					1,903
19/10	147,301	2,046	84.8%	69,206	1,749	273	27,121	4,168	22,476	69.3&
20/10					1,842	283
21/10	152,024	2,642	85.8%	73,233	2,235	374	28,577	5,220	22,889	70.8%
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Corona Virus Daily Stats Hospitalisation Etc – 21 Oct 2021 – Day 77 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
16/10
17/10	2,172	1,440	299	170	1,838	777	151	94	16	6
18/10						851	155	103	12	7
19/10	2,046	1,420	288	174	1,749	784	149	100	15	11
20/10
21/10	2,642	1,343	276	165	2,335	779	141	96	13	12
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