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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 10th November

World 51.2 million    France 1.8 million     Spain 1.4 million Apparently the South Australian government will consider reopening the border to Victoria in a few days from now, but that doesn’t mean it will actually open in a few days, just that they will consider it. Victoria has recorded our 11th consecutive day without any new […]

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The Corona Crucible – Mon 9th November

World 50.7 million    India 8.5 million       Brazil 5.6 million Scenes of joy, optimism and hopefulness have erupted across the US. Be Joined has a big job ahead of him to unite the Divided States of America and deal with coronavirus. I hope the celebrations in the streets don’t result in more cases of COVID. Mask […]

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The Corona Crucible – Sun 8th November

World 50.2 million    Hungary 100K+ It’s Official. Joe Biden (Be Joined) has won and will become the 46th president of the US. Plot And Drum is not conceding defeat. He is not capable. He’s never been capable of very much. No one is listening to him anymore. I look forward to seeing the moving vans […]

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The Corona Crucible – Sat 7th November

World 49.6 million    USA    10 million       Jordan 100K+ Finally, the media is cutting off 45 from speaking his vile lies. After all the pain and misery he has caused over the past four years, it’s nice to know that the he is suffering while the remaining votes are being counted. Counting will continue for a […]

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The Corona Crucible – Fri 6th November

World 49 million       Armenia 100K                       Honduras       100K+ Now that the Victorian outbreak is well and truly under control, internal state borders in Australia are set to reopen in stages over coming weeks. NSW has more cases of COVID-19 than Victoria now. About six months ago Neil had an opportunity to go to Adelaide for a […]

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The Corona Crucible – Thurs 5th November

World 48.4 million    USA 9.7 million                    Australia 27K+ The Mad Nut is taking legal action, saying that counting of votes should have halted when he was ahead and that the Democrats have stolen the Presidency. What utter bullshit. The man is deranged. I cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone would vote […]

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The Corona Crucible – Wed 4th November

World 47.8 million                Russia 1.6 million     Belarus 100K+ Belarus has now had 100,000 cases of COVID, the 51st country to reach this number of infections. There have been widespread anti-government protests across Belarus over recent months. There have been protests in many countries across the world during this pandemic. We had another one […]

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The Corona Crucible – Tues 3rd November

World 47.3 million    USA 9.5 million        The US has held their Presidential vote today. Many millions of Americans have already voted. The voter turnout has been substantially higher than in previous years. All indications are that Joe Biden (Be Joined) will win, but given the craziness in the US, anything could happen. It remains to […]

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The Corona Crucible – Sun 1st November

World 46.3 million    UK 1 million  Japan 100K+ Austria 100K+ One month ago there were 34 million cases of coronavirus, around eight million of them were active and there were over one million fatalities. Now more than 46 million people have been infected around the globe, we have over 11 million active cases and 1.2 […]

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The Corona Crucible – Sat 31st October

World 45.8 million                Germany 510K+        Chile 500K+ The Premier Daniel Andrews is taking the day off today. This is his first break in 120 days. If he’s not spending the day catching up on sleep, I’m betting he will be playing golf. I played yesterday and Neil went to do a factory inspection. Molly […]

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