Blog Day 605 - Friday 03 December 2021 - Day 35 of Covid Nearly Normal 

Just a quick update today to let you all know that I am still around and active.  I tell you now that this socialising and getting out and about isn't all that it is cracked up to be.  

I may have mentioned my friends Flashy and Lady P before, they are currently in Melbourne on holidays from Cairns.  

It is a little bit complicated but Flashy has two sons, one of whom is my godson, who live in Melbourne and Flashy and Lady P have a daughter who also lives and Melbourne.  Well, the whole family is what you might call sociable and enjoy a lunch or dinner or possibly a lunch and dinner and a few drinks, so the week has been hectic, to say the least, and there is more to come.

My godson and his wife, who is American, like to do a thanksgiving dinner and as they are going to be away over Christmas they are throwing a combined thanksgiving/christmas lunch tomorrow.  There will be much turkey, creamed corn, mac n cheese and various pies with all the trimmins and a drink or two.  I think that there will be about 21 adults and 5 children in attendance.  I reckon that sometime in the afternoon I will be looking for a possie "far from the madding crowd" as they say.

And it will definitely be an Uber there and home again.

As you may possibly be aware we still have a little problem with a thing called the covid virus, although things are certainly better in Victoria and nationally we seem to have hit the wall a bit.

Vaccination wise the vaccination rate is slowing down but that is to expected given that some states have now exceeded the 90% double vaxxed.

    State                Single Shot            Double Shot

    NSW                94.6%                    92.6%

    Vic                    93.4%                    91.0%

    Qld                    86.8%                    77.2%

    Aust                   92.6%                    87.4%

As we can see the big tough banana benders are frighties of the big bad needle.

Victoria is still recording daily new cases in the 1,000+ range with 1,189 in the last 24 hours and 1,400 the day before that.  The hospitalisation numbers are stuck at around 290 patients in Victoria in hospital with the virus of which 43 are in ICU and 22 are on ventilators.

The Victorian figures certainly aren't dropping as quickly as NSW's, and I don't know why.

The Victorian death rate is up a bit as well with 11 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours and 10 the day before that.

Corona Virus Daily Stats – 03 December 2021 – Day 35 of Covid Nearly Normal

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
01/12					1,179	251
02/12					1,419	271
03/12	214,881	1,538	92.6%	125,474	1,189	337	15,999	2,851	12,913	87.4%
04/12

Corona Virus Daily Stats Hospitalisation Etc – 03 December 2021 – Day 35 of Covid Nearly Normal
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
01/12						299	43	18		5
02/12						288	41	20		10
03/12	1,538	509	71	32	1,189	289	43	22	11	11
04/12