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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 – Thurs 2nd July

World 10.8 million    South Africa 160K+ Colombia 100K+ Colombia is the 20th country to reach 100,000 coronavirus cases. Currently there are around 4,000 new cases being diagnosed there each day. In poor countries like Colombia, testing is much less widespread than here. Around 15,000 tests per million in Colombia, compared to almost 100,000 per million […]

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The Corona Crucible – Wed 1st July

World 10.5 million     USA 2.7 million       Brazil 1.4 million The AFL fixture has been thrown into disarray with Queensland bringing in new border restrictions affecting Victoria. It will open all other state borders from 10 July but no Victorians will be permitted to visit. Richmond was meant to play West Coast in Queensland this […]

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The Corona Crucible – Tues 30th June

World 10.4 million    India 560K+   Pakistan 200K+ At the start of this month 6.2 million people around the world had been infected with coronavirus. One month later, we’ve reached a grim statistic. Over ten million people have been infected across the globe and over 500,000 people have died. The rate of infection is increasing now […]

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The Corona Crucible – Mon 29th June

World 10.2 million    USA 2.6 million        Mexico 210K+ Medical oxygen is produced using oxygen concentrators, which extract and purify oxygen from the air. However, many countries are now experiencing difficulties in obtaining oxygen concentrators as demand is outstripping supply.  The Director-General of the WHO has announced that at the current rate of infection, the world […]

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The Corona Crucible – Sun 28th June

World 10 million       Russia 620K+                        India 520K+ World Fatalities 500K+        World Active Cases  4 million+ This virus spreads by human contact. Ten million people on planet earth have now been infected since this pandemic was declared on 11 March. Avoid human contact and you stop the spread of the virus. How hard can that be? […]

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The Corona Crucible – Sat 27th June

World 9.8 million      USA 2.5 million        New York 400K+ California 200K+ New Jersey 175K+ Texas 140K+  Illinois 140K+           Florida 120K+ Massachusetts 100K+ Things are going from bad to worse in Brazil and in the US. More than 40,000 new cases are being recorded every day in each country. Across the world the rate of COVID-19 […]

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The Corona Crucible – Fri 26th June

World 9.7 million      Brazil  1.2 million      Peru 260K+ Qantas has announced it’s cutting 6,000 jobs. This is on top of the 15,000 staff that are currently receiving JobKeeper. Apparently that benefit is not being extended to these 6,000 staff, but the government JobKeeper payment will only last until September anyway. Making the announcement yesterday, Qantas […]

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The Corona Crucible – Thurs 25th June

World 9.5 million      Russia 600K+                        India 470K+ My 2021 astrology calendar arrived from the printer and is looking fabulous! The calendar has a small, but dedicated following, but I did reduce the print run this year, partly due to the economic situation and partly because each year more people are downloading it instead of ordering […]

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The Corona Crucible – Wed 24th June

World 9.3 million      USA 2.4 million        South Africa 100K+ Novak Djokovic is the fourth tennis player to test positive to COVID-19 after playing in exhibition matches in Serbia and Croatia that he organised. Meanwhile in the US, eight members of Land Mop Turd’s campaign staff have tested positive to COVID-19 after organising and attending the […]

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The Corona Crucible – Tues 23rd June

World 9.1 million                  Brazil 1.1 million                  Mexico 180K+ The pandemic shutdown has given many people the opportunity to learn new skills. With me sick at home for the past couple of weeks, I decided to learn more about playing bridge. There are a number of different bidding systems, and much to learn. There are classes […]

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