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 […]
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 […]
The Corona Crucible – Fri 30th October
World 45.3 million France 1.2 million Spain 1.2 million The rate of infection across the world is spiralling out of control, increasing by more than half a million people every day, and that’s just the people being tested and recorded. The real number is probably many times higher. COVID is exploding across Europe, South and […]
The Corona Crucible – Thurs 29th October
World 44.7 million India 8 million Russia 1.5 million We went to Officeworks yesterday and bought a heap of stationary. We also bought a new office chair as mine was getting very worn from sitting in it every day writing this blog, among other tasks. The Bunnings carpark nearby was totally crammed, so we’ll […]
The Corona Crucible – Wed 28th October
World 44.2 million USA 9 million It’s less than one week to the US Presidential election. Around 50 million Americans have already voted, which is a massive turnout compared to previous elections. Despite attempts by Dump Ton Lard to undermine the US postal service, people have mailed in their votes in the millions and there […]
The Corona Crucible – Tues 27th October
World 43.7 million Singapore 57K+ Australia 27K+ Dan Andrews has shown great leadership in Victoria throughout this crisis. Every day he has turned up to provide the daily numbers and answer numerous questions. Behind the scenes he’s done a huge amount of work to manage this pandemic. He’s not had a day off in many […]
The Corona Crucible – Mon 26th October
World 43.3 million Iran 560K+ Italy 520K+ The word ‘crucible’ that I chose for this blog refers to a both a container and a process. It seems to be more and more apt as time goes on. The Oxford Dictionary says ‘crucible’ is both a melting pot for metals, and a severe test or […]
The Corona Crucible – Sun 25th October
World 42.9 million Colombia 1 million Switzerland 100K+ Across the world almost 500,000 COVID infections were recorded yesterday and the same number in the day before. Colombia is the eighth country to reach the one million mark. Switzerland has joined the 100,000 group. Last night Richmond won their third Premiership in four years. It was […]
The Corona Crucible – Sat 24th October
World 42.4 million UK 830K+ Netherlands 270K+ With just two days to go before we come out of lockdown, a few hundred morons decided to protest in Melbourne yesterday. Many were not wearing masks, potentially causing an outbreak of the virus that could push us back into lockdown again. What is wrong with these […]
The Corona Crucible – Fri 23rd October
World 41.9 million France 999K+ Costa Rica 100K+ And on it goes. France is the seventh country to reach one million COVID infections and Costa Rica is the 47th country to record more than 100,000 cases. How quickly things can get out of control. Australia is 85th on this list now and continuing […]