COVID-19 state of play – ‘I’ve been to cities that never close down’?
The image above shows results for countries at the top of the cases table on 2 April 2020. The world cases passed 1 million and deaths 53,000. Red and yellow columns are 'new figures for the day'. The terrible day shown by France (1,355 new deaths was an aberration because...
COVID-19 Risks as at 31 March 2020
I've been asked if I could workout a 'tipping point' between doing nothing and locking down. At this stage, because we have been slow to react in all countries (except China, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore) such an analysis is beyond me. I can undertake a 'risk...
What we can expect over the next couple of weeks with COVID-19
I understand that many people doubt that COVID-19 is as serious as the media is making out. That it is a beat up. I thought it is worth going through a few facts. Predictions I wrote in my My last post are coming true. At my time of writing now (7:30 am Tuesday 24 March...
What do we know about COVID-19?
Current Data For Countries with Most Cases of COVID-19Data from 18 Mar 2020"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." W. Edwards DemingWhat do we know about COVID-19?This is a new coronavirus. It is very infectious. Globally, we have no immunity....
Cancerous Prostate update
14 Dec 2019. Very good news today. I got the pathology results from the surgery three weeks ago - all clear and a very good prognosis. The pathology shows that my prostate contained several cancers with the one in the top being the most aggressive and although that one had...
Cancerous Prostate
On Friday 22 Nov 2019, I had my prostate removed (Radical robot-assisted prostatectomy) at the Sydney Adventist Hospital (the San). A recent biopsy showed a Gleason score of 8 (out of a possible 12). A very aggressive cancer. Scans show that it had not spread to lymph or...
Western Australia 2019 trip – week 5
Thursday 26 Sep 2019 Day 30. Today, we drove about 250km to our new place for three nights - Lions Dryandra Woodland Village. The drive through the kilometre after kilometre of badly treated wheatland was boring. We had lunch in Narrogin - which looked run down. We are...
Western Australia 2019 trip – week 4
Tuesday 17 Sep 2019 Day 21. We drove 100 km to Albany - mainly through farm land (was dairy now beef). Along the way we stopped to look at Ocean Beach (near Denmark) which is an excellent surfing beach. As looks to be normal for these WA rivers, they don't quite get to...
Western Australia 2019 trip – week 3
Wednesday 11 Sep 2019 Day 15. This was a day off in Perth. We did little except sleep and find a good Malaysian restaurant nearby. Thursday 12 Sep 2019 Day 16. A day of driving. We caught a Red Cat (bus) to Avis in Hay St Perth to pick up our car. As it turned out, we were...
Western Australia 2019 trip – week 2
Wednesday 4 Sep 2019 Day 8. A day of coastal adventures. First, we drove up to the lighthouse for a view of yet more whales (and Bill's boat - Bill is our chef for this trip - in real life he is chef on a oil extraction ship just off this coast). Good light. Then, south on...
Western Australia 2019 trip – Week 1
Intro. We are on a 5 week trip through WA. The first 2 weeks we will be with Kimberley Safari Tours travelling from Broome to Perth (through the Pilbara and down the coast). The last 3 weeks we will be driving ourselves around SW WA looking at wildlife, vegetation,...
Simpson Desert Trip June 2019 – week 2
Wednesday 26 June 2016 - Day 8 We retraced our steps from two days ago. A bit of a late start caused by a power outage across all of Birdsville when a pole in the caravan park caught fire and tripped out a transformer. Why would that hold us up you ask? Because we needed...