World 41.4 million Peru 875K+ Mexico 860K+ I played golf yesterday and Tuesday and I am feeling it today. I hope to get back into the swing of things soon. So far it hasn’t been pretty, but I am really enjoying being out on course. I’m booked in to play again on Sunday. […]
The Corona Crucible – Wed 21st October
World 40.9 million Spain 1 million Argentina 1 million Argentina and Spain have each now reached over one million cases of COVID, joining the US, India, Brazil and Russia. The way this virus is continuing to spread exponentially, in places like the US, UK, Spain, Brazil and India, who knows how long this crisis will […]
The Corona Crucible – Tues 20th October
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 […]
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 […]