+12,143 people died world wide today - though as my psychiatrist said we won't really know mortality rates until excess deaths are counted and that could be 5 years away before there is time and space for that. I am so grateful for the coming vaccines.
+3,164 dead Americans today, more than on 9/11. I am feel upset about this. It was predicted months ago. I also feel very grateful that I can wear a mask and keep myself safe in very low risk environments in Australia. I went to the hospital today, we both wore masks, we went to a second hand building materials shop, wearing new clean, cloth masks, we are practicing doing it right as we are not medical folks so we don't have their training. We went out last night to a club we belong to, we wore masks, we are doing best practice. If community spread happens here, we will be so practiced with hand hygiene, social distancing and mask wearing we won't make the basic mistakes. My friends from Asian countries have been wearing masks for so long since SARS/MERS even children from 2 years and older are trained to wear masks so you don't see people without masks and you don't see people wearing masks without them being over their noses. Teachers and kids in Taiwan wear masks at school and they don't have the spread that John Hopkins predicted they would have as they had flights direct from Wuhan. We have ordered lighter material masks due to the heat up here.
Brazil is up to 848 now, they will eventually by pass America.
Mexico is 800.
Indonesia is under reporting their deaths and they have 8 million stunted children, that is they have serious developmental disorders from nutritional deficits. So that's a serious population with pre-existing conditions. When I read up on it they are discussing why they have so many child deaths but there is no discussion of that in the Australian media.
+296 deaths in France - which Victoria could have been if it wasn't for the lock down.
I know a doctor who comes from a family of doctors in India, his partner and her family are all doctors as well. His Mother-In-Law , also a doctor, was on a ventilator for 30 days and it cost $3,300 per day, so she had the money for it. Many of the doctors that taught these two families at medical school are now dead due to Covid19. His Uncles have had it and two of them can no longer walk more than a 100 steps and have to sit down. So they are really living with SARS-CoV-2. He's pragmatic about it all. But wistful and sad. So many won't get access to medical care.
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So though when I go online for meetings and meditation groups on zoom, there are folks talking about the infections in their families and friendship networks, so I really, really feel for them, and I will be as supportive as I can, one of my friends in Germany is sick so I am going to write an article for her to assist her. But I am going to clean the house, meditate and then go out and doing Mindful weeding to pace myself and manage my mental health.
My doctor friends are going to family Xmases - they will pull out if there is community spread but that is a very low risk now. So Australia is very disciplined and fortunate indeed.
. not much different for me. Therapy is via zoom rather than in person , I no longer get to go to yoga. 
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