Greg and Deb's Travel Blog

Well it’s been another crazy month,

The USA Presidential election was held and there is still np “Official” winner, but it looks like Joe Biden has beaten Donald Trump. Trump has also been defeated in many lawsuits brought about to discredit/lay aside the election results.

The relationship between China and Australia is sinking to new lows

South Australia was placed into a 6 day shut down and got it done in 3 days!

We had planned a few “breaks”.

A couple of days in a brand new CBD hotel, that we postponed after a fresh Covid-19 outbreak.

A week in Perth WA to see our new grandson (and his parents) was cancelled for us when WA closed its borders to SA just 1.5 days after they opened them!

I guess this is the “New Normal” that gets talked about, don’t make plans too far in advance, things move quickly.

My November edition of my Covid-19 Diary can be found via this link, it continues to be grim reading.

I am just so glad we live in Australia and not anywhere in the northern hemisphere, the virus seems to be running unstoppable there.

I have posted my October 2020 Covid-19 Diary, you can find it via this link. https://gregndeb.com/zero-hr-covid-19/10-october-2020-covid-19-the-pandemic-takes-hold-globally/

The pandemic has hit the world hard, particularly the northern hemisphere. The chart below shows the number of new infections from July 2020 to the end of October 2020. As you can see, the number of new Covid-19 cases is steadily increasing with no signs of it slowing down. The good news is that the death rate for those that develop Covid-19 seems to have plateaued, I assume because globally we are getting better at treating the disease.

Curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to look into how our global experience with Coronavirus/Covid-19 compared to the 1918-20 global experience with the Spanish Flu.

To be short, and to quote the 1970’s band Bachman–Turner Overdrive, “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”. The Spanish Flu was in its time orders of magnitude worse that what we are experiencing.

To find out more have a look here, https://gregndeb.com/zero-hr-covid-19/9-september-2020-covid-19-globally-its-getting-worse-victoria-is-back-on-track/

Anyone interested in how this pandemic is going, I have just updated my “diary” with my August monthly summary.

You can find it all here, https://gregndeb.com/zero-hr-covid-19/

It is grim reading, but as factual as I can make it.

With no overseas travel and not even Queensland travel because of Covid, we have taken a few a days to spoil ourselves in the Adelaide Hills, Mount Lofty House to be exact.
We are giving their new Sequoia Suites a try. Continue reading →

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We arrived down at Victor Harbor at about 2:30pm. The house was ready and we got straight in. The house we have is through a company called Petlet. They hire holiday homes where pets are welcome, and so we had Billie and Vince with us.

The house is an 1860’s cottage overlooking the sand dunes and straight out onto the bay between Granite Island and Victor Harbor. Continue reading →Number of Views :880

Victoria has gone nuts with Covid-19, all States have shut their borders to varying degrees to the Covid infested state.

SA has basically shut our borders to all states except Tasmania and WA, but neither of them is letting anyone in.

Queensland has effectively shut its border to NSW, requiring anyone entering from NSW to quarantine for 14 days at their own expense in designated hotels.

Our Port Douglas holiday is laying in ruins around us. So we have cancelled it and are now having a couple of trips away in SA.

We have 5 days in Victor Harbor and a couple of nights booked in the hills. There is a fairly high probability we will be able to do these 2, no flights and no cross-state borders to contend with.

My continuing monthly blog on the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Pandemic is posted at the start of each month, the latest edition can be found here. https://gregndeb.com/zero-hr-covid-19/7-july-2020-covid-19-complacency-is-our-greatest-danger/

It seems as the longer we go into this the more I am starting to focus on the numbers, and they are scary. I hope that soon they will start to show some hope, but without a vaccine I am really not too optimistic.

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