World 20.2 million Mexico 480K+ Iraq 150K+ NSW is still having small numbers of cases and outbreaks at a range of venues and schools. Each day for the past few weeks they have had up to 20 new cases, and today there were 22. One school in Sydney has eight of these cases. Health […]
Archive | Finey’s Blog
In this daily blog I explore our personal and collective responses to the transformation we are all experiencing as we battle the COVID-19 pandemic. I began writing in mid-March 2020, but only decided in April to create this blog and post it to my website. I’m posting all of March as a single entry and will follow up with posts either daily, weekly or every few days as events unfold. Stay safe.
The Corona Crucible – Mon 10th August
World 20 million Russia 880K+ South Africa 560K+ This week Josh Frydenberg tried to discredit our Premier about the hotel quarantine failure. The media has also been giving Daniel a hard time at his daily press briefings. Even if it was his decision to use security guards to monitor the hotel quarantine, it was probably […]
The Corona Crucible – Sun 9th August
World 19.8 million Brazil 3 million Peru 470K+ There’s not much happening anywhere. Groundhog days and groundhog nights. Melbourne is like a ghost town. Even our quiet suburb is much quieter than normal. It will be this way for a while. We spent the weekend doing domestic chores, playing cards and Chinese checkers and […]
The Corona Crucible – Sat 8th August
World 19.5 million Argentina 235K+ Australia 20K+ When Neil was going to work in the city, I usually did the shopping, but while he’s been working at home we have been doing the shopping together. Lately we have been visiting a new Woollies supermarket which is a bit further away than our local Coles. When […]
The Corona Crucible – Fri 7th August
World 19.2 million USA 5 million India 2 million In the wake of the Melbourne lockdown, the Federal Government is extending JobKeeper and is relaxing eligibility requirements. There will have to be widespread reform to a range of government policies as we move forward. The impacts of this pandemic will continue for years to come. […]
The Corona Crucible – Thurs 6th August
World 18.9 million Russia 860K+ South Africa 520K+ Sniffer dogs are being trained in Australia now too, to detect COVID-19 and could be working within months. Research has been undertaken in a number of countries around the world and is showing excellent results. Our wonderful canine friends are special in so many ways, providing love […]
The Corona Crucible – Wed 5th August
World 18.6 million Peru 430K+ Chile 360K+ Recent news reports have said that a high number of people who have tested positive have not been isolating at home when contacted by DHHS. But it seems that there are also people who have been waiting to be contacted by the health department, but have not been […]
The Corona Crucible – Tues 4th August
World 18.4 million Turkey 230K+ Argentina 200K+ Deadline Warns (Daniel Andrews) has a lot of really interesting anagrams that you can look up, or play at home to pass the time while in lockdown. It seems that just about everyone in Melbourne tunes in to his telecasts on the ABC News Channel each day […]
The Corona Crucible – Mon 3rd August
World 18.2 million Colombia 300K+ Saudi Arabia 280K+ Premier Daniel Andrews said yesterday that there are around 760 active cases diagnosed in our state over recent days that cannot be traced back to a source. This level of community transmission suggests that there are also a lot more undetected cases. The daily infection tallies […]
The Corona Crucible – Sun 2nd August
World 18 million Russia 840K+ South Africa 500K+ This afternoon Premier Daniel Andrews announced there were another 12 fatalities and 671 more cases of COVID-19 recorded in Victoria in the past 24 hours. Around 18,000 tests were done, so this is back up to 3.7 per cent positive tests which is not good. Daniel […]