Blog2020 ≫ Up early to do important coronavirus research

Up early, on what would have been my Nan's 90th birthday. Not sure what she would have made of this coronavirus madness but I bet she would have done this mornings coronavirus test a bit better than thing one did. It's a hard thing we had to do for sure, swab the back of his throat, and then put the same swab up his nose. He gagged and screamed and we really struggled with this. Hope we have done it right, it's now sealed and bagged and boxed and sealed again and in the fridge waiting for the courier to collect it. We had to be done early as the courier could be here any time from 8am. I bet I'm waiting in all day for them.

This coronavirus test was just for research, we have no suspicion that anyone we know has it. Thing two tells us someone at his school does, though the school have not confirmed it. There have definitely been two cases at thing one's school.

In other anniversaries I was at Hammersmith Odeon for Iron Maiden on Nan's 60th birthday, and I was seeing the Wannadies today in 1996. I remember the Iron Maiden one clearly, and it's not that I chose that over seeing my Nan on her birthday or anything, I was staying in London on a three week training course as part of my new job / scheme / thing with Nixdorf.

I want to go for a run today, a 10k just to try and keep up with Clare, as she ran 10km yesterday. Also want to go to the Inn Doors late this afternoon, hope I can fit it in and I'm not still waiting for the courier.

The desk sold for £27 (good job I ignored that £15 offer part way through) and 20% of that is going to charity to ease my conscience1, so got to arrange collection of that and I'm one stop closer to actually tidying the study.

My old rustic computer desk that I sold on ebay

Country cases deaths
USA 8216591 222716
Brazil 5170996 152513
India 7365509 112146
Mexico 829396 84898
UK 673607 43293
Italy 381601 36372
Peru 859740 33577
Spain 970554 33553
France 809684 33125
Iran 517835 29605

Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + India + Mexico + UK + Italy

popex graph Graph line from 4417.0 to 18090.0🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Graph line from 3114.0 to 7770.0🇧🇷 🇧🇷 Graph line from 1318.0 to 8514.0🇮🇳 🇮🇳 Graph line from 1770.0 to 5131.0🇲🇽 🇲🇽 Graph line from -3671.0 to 7959.0🇬🇧 🇬🇧 -3571 deaths? 🇬🇧 readjusted figures here! Graph line from 39.0 to 3849.0🇮🇹 🇮🇹 Y axis of graph 0 - 5000 - 10000 - 15000 - X axis of graph May '20 Jun '20 Jul '20 Aug '20 Sep '20 Oct '20

10k: Ten km, just over six miles to you. Sometimes talking about 10,000 steps though, an arbitrary daily step count target.

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