World 40.6 million India 7.5 million Brazil 5.2 million At the weekend it was revealed that the New Zealand travel bubble was breached when travellers from New Zealand arrived in Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania, None of these states signed up to the bubble agreement. This is a federal issue, and they have clearly stuffed […]
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 19th October
World 40.2 million Germany 360K+ Netherlands 220K+ Case numbers across many parts of the world are now increasing faster than ever before with over 300,000 cases, and sometimes 400,000 being recorded daily. This means that the number of people testing positive to COVID-19 across the world is now in the order of three million […]
The Corona Crucible – Sun 18th October
World 39.9 million Australia 27,383 New Zealand 1,883 Melburnians eagerly tuned in to hear Daniel Andrews announcement today as we emerge from the longest ever lockdown in the world. Law And Deniers (anagram) announced a host of restrictions will be eased from 11.59pm tonight, with many more slated for two weeks from now, and that […]
The Corona Crucible – Sat 17th October
World 39.5 million South Africa 700K+ Turkey 340K+ It’s been 100 days that Melbourne has been in lockdown. On 5 August we had peak of 725 cases. Today we have recorded just one new case overnight. The results we have attained here reinforce that a hard lockdown is the right approach to this pandemic. […]
The Corona Crucible – Fri 16th October
World 39.1 million France 800K+ UK 670K+ Guatemala now has over 100,000 cases of COVID, taking the number of countries to reach than number to 45. 13 countries have now recorded more than half a million cases. Several of these will soon reach one million infections. The rate of infection is now increasing worldwide by […]
The Corona Crucible – Thurs 15th October
World 38.7 million Argentina 930K+ Peru 850K+ Very little news has come from China about how the virus has been managed there. Reported daily case numbers have been in low numbers since about March. Reports have said that Wuhan, where the virus began, is open for business as usual, including visiting tourists. Now we have […]
The Corona Crucible – Wed 14th October
World 38.3 million Spain 920K+ Colombia 920K+ The Chadstone outbreak has spread to Shepparton after the same truck driver who spread the virus to Kilmore admitted today he visited Shepparton. Just one person doing the wrong thing is all it takes. But by and large we still have an opportunity with so few cases, to […]
The Corona Crucible – Tues 13th October
World 38 million USA 8 million India 7.1 million The US has now recorded in excess of eight million infections. A staggering 2.6 million of these are active cases. Per capita, the US has over 24,000 cases of COVID-19 per one million of population. There are only three weeks now until the US election. Few […]
The Corona Crucible – Mon 12th October
World 37.7 million South Africa 690K+ UK 600K+ It’s just one week to go in our extended lockdown here in Melbourne, (I hope). I have 12 squares to knit to finish my 12×12 queen sized quilt, which I am planning to complete this week before I am allowed to play golf again (I hope). We’re […]
The Corona Crucible – Sun 11th October
World 37.4 million India 7 million Italy 350K+ We have a long list of things we need to buy at Bunnings and at Officeworks. I imagine we are not alone! It was too hard to order online as we need to get specific things that need to be looked at in detail and measured, […]