Author Archive | Michele

World 15.6 million    Iran 280K+       Iraq 100K+ Since yesterday wearing a mask is mandatory across Melbourne and Mitchell Shire. Many Asian nations have managed the spread of coronavirus very well, largely due to widespread mask wearing, which is a more usual practice in some countries. Thailand has managed the COVID-19 crisis very well, with […]

World 15.3 million                Saudi Arabia 260K+ Colombia 210K+       On Tuesday the Federal Government announced that JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments will now continue past September, but amounts will be reduced. As the PM tends to do, Sir Scott Moron (anagram) rambled on for a long time about how generous and helpful his government has been, […]

World 15 million       USA 4 million New York 430K+      California 400K+      Florida 370K+                        Texas 350K+ As from tomorrow hospitals in the US will start reporting their COVID-19 statistics direct to Washington instead of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC. Mad Old PR Nut […]

World 14.8 million    Brazil 2.1 million      India 1.1 million       Australia 12K+ There is promising news from the UK about a vaccine. Called AZD1222, the study lead author Andrew Pollard of the University of Oxford said, ‘We hope this means the immune system will remember the virus, so that our vaccine will protect people for an […]

World 14.6 million    Peru 350K+    Mexico 330K+ It’s my mother’s birthday today. Back in May we were going to take her for lunch for Mother’s Day, but weren’t able to owing to the first lockdown. The hope was that we could take her for lunch today for her birthday instead, but that isn’t going to […]

World 14.4 million    Russia 760K+                        South Africa 350K+ All Victorian AFL teams have relocated to Queensland for the next ten weeks. Players are being tested for COVID-19 twice a week and there are other restrictions in place to ensure safety. Every week brings another adjustment to AFL arrangements in order to keep the 2020 season […]

World 14.1 million                Spain 300K+  Germany 200K+ Even people who are complying with restrictions can slip up. We are all human and we make mistakes. Another reason that otherwise careful people may behave irresponsibly is that we can quickly revert to old habits that are ingrained. People just want to feel ‘normal’ but we’re […]

World 13.9 million    Brazil 2 million         India 1 million Given the current surge in cases and second lockdown in Victoria, I can’t see how the federal government can possibly stop the JobKeeper scheme in September. With so many businesses closed and people out of work around Australia the government is under pressure to permanently increase […]

World 13.6 million                Russia 740K+                        South Africa 310K+ The coronavirus situation in Melbourne is getting worse with infection clusters in many nursing homes and hospitals. I really think that the state government needs to go harder. New Zealand has not had any cases of community transmission for two months. If we had made that choice […]

World 13.4 million    Mexico 300K+                       Turkey 200K+ A number of health experts are now calling for Australia to adopt an elimination strategy for COVID-19. Tasmania and many other states have effectively eliminated the virus without actually setting elimination as a target. If we tighten restrictions now for a couple of months we could potentially eliminate […]