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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 – Tues 2nd June

World 6.3 million      Chile 100K+  Peru 170K+ A further lifting of restrictions came into effect in our state yesterday. Restaurants, clubs, cafes and hotels can reopen with up to 20 patrons, but social distancing is still required. Venues must have four square metres for each person. Drinks can only be served with sit down meals […]

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The Corona Crucible – Mon 1st June

World 6.2 million      Brazil 510K+             Russia 400K+ I decided not to play golf yesterday. My shoulder has been sore for about a week. I think I may have injured it getting my golf bag out of the car, but I’m not entirely sure how it happened. Since returning to golf, I’ve not been playing that […]

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The Corona Crucible – Sun 31st May

World 6.1 million      US 1.8 million                       Brazil 490K+ At the start of May there were 3.3 million cases of COVID-19 globally. Now over 6 million people have been infected with the virus. The number of infections has doubled in one month. In the US there were just over one million cases of coronavirus a month […]

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The Corona Crucible- Sat 30th May

World 6 million                     India   170K+             Iran 140K+     The National Cabinet met yesterday and has agreed to dump COAG and replace it with the National Cabinet on a permanent basis. I’m not sure if this is just semantics, but hopefully there will be less finger pointing between the states and federal government going forward. The […]

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The Corona Crucible – Fri 29th May

World 5.9 million      Brazil 430K+ Italy 230K+ Throughout the shutdown, certain stores and facilities have remained open, deemed as essential services. This included hairdressers. I still can’t get my hairy head around that one. Hairdressers themselves wanted to close and felt scared about being exposed to coronavirus. Beauty salons are only now starting to reopen, […]

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The Corona Crucible – Thurs 28th May

World 5.7 million      Turkey 160K+                       Peru    130K+ Odd Rant Lump has accused Twitter of interfering in the forthcoming US Presidential election and ‘completely stifling free speech’ after it flagged some of his tweets with ‘fact-check’ warnings. His tweet said that ‘mail in ballots’ will lead to corruption and fraud. A spokesperson from Twitter said […]

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The Corona Crucible – Wed 27th May

World 5.6 million                  Brazil 390K+             UK 260K+ More and more services are opening up, not just here, but across the world. Here we have the virus somewhat under control, but opening up for business is still risky. In countries where the virus is rampant, it’s criminal and people will die. Here, in Australia […]

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The Corona Crucible – Tues 26th May

World 5.5 million                  USA 1.7 million World Fatalities 340K+        USA Fatalities 100K+ Victorian students in Prep, Grade 2, Year 11 and Year 12 return to school today. Students in Grade 3 through to Year 10 will continue to learn from home for the time being, then return to school on Tuesday 9 June. We […]

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The Corona Crucible – Mon 25th May

World 5.4 million      Brazil  360K+             Russia 340K+                        India 130K+   Things are bad in Brazil. Case numbers there are soaring and their meagre health system is collapsing. There have been over 22,000 fatalities there. Brazil is now second only to the US in numbers of infections, with Russia now third, but Russia has only had […]

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The Corona Crucible – Sun 24th May

World 5.3 million      Italy 230K+                France 180K+            Illinois 100K+ The Australian Federal Government has grossly over estimated the cost of the Jobkeeper program. It was estimated to cost about $130 billion, but the actual figure is likely to be about half that amount. The government said that about 6 million people were benefitting from […]

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