covid diary Saturday 28th March 2020- Lockdown Day 3

A bt delicate this morning, overindulged on Beer & the vine. Watched Harry Potter comfort film and had late night snacks and drinks. Not a smart move really. Weather bleak this morning so a good excuse for a lie in.

 There is discussion of government doing contra-cycle investment in infrastructure to inject funds into building to react against economic downturn. Might be an opportunity there for me which would be good.

Car WOF

My WOF on the car is coming up on the 5th April, I checked online and PitStop closed. I was wondering what to do about that. There was an article in Stuff suggesting you use if necessary but otherwise dont. Police could procecute on individual basis.

Neighbour shopping

I got a text from the lad below asking if I needed anything from shops. Unfortunately I didn't read the text until after his time of leaving had passed, so I think he headed out about 11.30am. I've just seen him arrive back at 1.45pm. I hope it didn't take him that long to do the shop.  That would be a couple of hours!!!

Walking

Weather a bit wet and squally today. Only a very few out and about at 11.30 when I went

Different strategies by US/UK & Ireland/NZ

An article in Irish Times looked at countries different strategies. US, UK & Netherlands not trying to track virus movement in population, whereas Ireland/ NZ both are.
This means that US/UK will get hit more heavily sooner , and their Health System will struggle under the load.
Ireland/NZ will control better and test more and will manage outbreaks better and do more containment, so will look to try and work within limited health resources.
This means that US/UK will have more people recovering from Covid quicker and so heard population that can go back to work quicker, but more deaths.
Ireland/NZ will take longer for people to get Covid, so there will be a longer period before people can go back to work. Less deaths but slower economic recovery.

Germany low death rate

I read an article about why Germany's death rate was so low. They are doing a LOT of testing, so identifying cases with mild symptoms and so classifying them as active cases. Because they are doing so much more screening they have a better handle on the number of  people infected. This is not the case in other countries, so their infected figures are way below where they should be.

Petrol

There was an item in the news about the issue of falling petrol prices, no demand and oversupply. I suppose the countries that are supplying have a production process that is difficult to reduce, so since they can't stockpile it and people are now not using too much transport, that is an industry that is going to suffer in the near future.

Russia calling Covid cases flu or SARS 

I was wondering why Russia's numbers were so low. Apparently Covid is in the SARS(Severe acute respitory syndrome) family. But the Russian Government is pretending it isn't. So numbers will burst forth from there soon.