Wednesday 13 July 2022

First, the bad news, yes gentle reader I am taking a bit of time off over the next couple of weeks so that the blog may be irregular or non existent during this period.

Now, the good news, I am taking a bit of time off over the next couple of weeks.  Might even fit in a few days in balmy FNQ.

Got the results of my blood tests back today and everything is in perfect working order (as the Scotsman said when he was asked if there was "anything worn under the kilt")?  And much to the surprise of some, myself included that even includes liver and kidney functions.

Has anybody got a dog that they would like to hire out for a few hours one day.  There is a cat lurking around my place and it is making itself more and more comfortable day by day.  The other day it was lying down on the roof of my car, the cheeky bugger.

Below are some photos of said cat!

Have I mentioned in the past that I am not overly fond of cats, looking at these photos you can understand why.

Our new health minister is certainly making a name for herself in a very short period of time.  Last week, just days after her appointment, she said at a media conference that she couldn't say that there wouldn't be new mask mandates in the future.

Although on holidays, he who must be obeyed, must have heard this for the very next day the new minister for transport gave a media conference in which he said very specifically that there will be no new mask mandates. Would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall around the discussions that prompted that announcement. 

Remember, four of our new ministers in senior posts have recently been appointed by the premier, so who are they beholden to, certainly not the good folk of this fine state of ours.

The new health minister has also told us today that despite the advise of the various state health officials that masks should be mandated to be worn in various places such as schools etc, she is going to ignore this advise and the the government will "encourage" people to wear masks.

She stated that she has made this decision after discussions with various business leaders in the community whom she has declined to name.

Oh, and the government is going to "suggest" that people work from home again but this will also not be mandated.  (I wonder given the government's woke policy on various things that they don't want to use the word mandate due to the first three letters of the word, just wondering).

Sometimes, after life seems to be getting back to some level of normalcy we forget that we are living in cloud cuckoo land.

Back to the figures, at least with the numbers we have cold hard facts to work with, the figures can't be manipulated, can they!

In the last 24 hours Victoria recorded 11,176 new covid infections, this is our highest daily figure since May of this year. NSW had a daily increase of 10,622 and Qld 7,500.  

In the last week Victorian hospitalisations due to covid have increased from 523 patients to 739.  (Remember when 400 covid patients was the trigger point for a Code Brown being called in the health system.  I can't see our new health minister going out on a limb and calling a code brown after the bollocking she probably got over her recent masks gaffe). Currently there are 36 of these patients in ICU and 5 on ventilators.

Victoria recorded 20 covid related deaths in the last 24 hours and 80 deaths in the last 7 days.  Some people are suggesting that these people died with covid not because of covid.  We have now been advised that 90% of the covid related deaths die because of covid and 10% die with covid.

Qld currently has 859 covid patients in hospital and 14 in ICU, they recorded 12 deaths in the last 24 hours and 65 deaths in the last week.

I had a look at the Qld figures as I will there sometime shortly and I wanted to see what I am getting myself in for, unfortunately looks a bit similar to Victoria.

Corona Virus Weekly Stats – From 22 March 2022 – Week 9 Reasonably Covid Normal

D	Aus Infected	Aus Increase Daily	Aus 1st Dose Vacc	Vic Infected	Vic Increase Daily	NSW Increase Daily	*Aus Active Infection	NSW Active Infection	Vic Active Infection	Aus 2nd Dose Vacc
22/03	3,975,559	32,379	96.7%	1,195,239	9,594	9,594	387,622	211,527	52,983	94.9%
30/03	4,436,572	50,082	96.8%	1,271,494	11,749	25,235	479,116	258,112	58,488	95.1%
04/04	4,715,763	35,015	96.8%	1,320,678	10,011	15,572	500,914	266,110	63,545	95.2%
13/04	5,207,650	54,185	96.9%	1,410,828	10,907	18,265	443,901	234,081	60,756	95.3%
20/04	5,494,804	36,856	97.0%	1,471,567	10,628	15,414	311,570	188,676	53,518	95.4%
27/04	5,780,569	24,135	97.0%	1,532,685	10,734	12,188	340,481	157,589	51,835	95.4%
04/05	6,072394	42,725	97.1%	1,597,464	10,779	11,939	317,353	139,572	57,154	95.5%
11/05	6,387,747	53,338	97.2%	1,673533	13,973	12,265	350,262	137,336	67,608	95.5%
17/05	6,683,581	33,281	97.2%	1,747,794	13,694	10,972	382,835	135,280	77,809	95.6%
25/05
15/06					8,687
22/06	7,885,040	30,303	97.5%	2,049,802	7,769	9,472	214,105	88,746	41,690	95.8%
29/06	8,078,931	24,986	97.5%	2,091,140	10,777	11,067	234,276	104,191	43,174	95.9%
06/07	8,324,143	32,886	97.6%	2,156,525	10,056	13,775	280,368	124,706	50,376	95.9%
13/07	8,605813	44,183	97.6%	2,223,522	11,176	10,622	316,773	135,832	58,357	96.0%

Corona Virus Daily Stats Hospitalisation Etc – From 22 March 2022 – Week 9 Reasonably Covid Normal
Date	Aus New Infection Daily	Aus Hospital	Aus ICU	Aus Ventilate	Vic New Infection Daily	Vic Hospital	Vic ICU	Vic Ventilate	AUS Daily Deaths	Vic Daily Deaths
22/03	32,379	2,090	93	21	9,594	256	24	5	26	7
30/03	50,082	2,446	100	21	11,749	280	18	5	28	7
04/04	35,015	2,645	108	21	10,011	305	17	3	7	1
13/04	54,185	3,147	126	29	10,907	391	19	2	39	14
20/04	36,856	3,325	155	39	10,628	437	34	12	35	14
27/04	24,135	3,385	144	N/A	10,734	456	32	8	33	13
04/05	42,725	3,111	148	N/A	10,779	473	25	6	44	11
11/05	53,338	3,102	114	N/A	13,973	533	33	5	40	17
17/05	35,281	3,154	129	N/A	13,694	516	31	3	49	20
15/06		2,887	104	N/A	8,687	476	35	8	57	18
22/06	30,303	3,029	110	N/A	9,472	402	29	10	59	24
29/06	24,986	3,237	115	N/A	10,777	468	35	9	36	23
06/07	32,886	3,757	137	N/A	10,056	523	29	5	38	23
13/07	44,183	4,477	137	N/A	11,176	739	36	5	57	20