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The days all seem to roll into one at the moment.  I know our Government whether you like one party or the other are doing an amazing job adapting to the health crisis and the financially crisis.  They are turning systems that have been in place on their head and all in the matter of days or a week to do what is best for our country.  They are changing legislation to Award Wages that have been in place for some 30 years to adapt them so that it suits the current environment for workers for the next 6 months.  Everything that is being done will be in place for 6 months.  Honestly the task is massive let alone the dollars and the health of our nation.  They are implementing financial packages through current systems rather than reinventing the wheel.  They are adjusting a few days later a better system and then a few days later addressing other things like child care, unemployment, rental tenancies, mortgages, household electricity, rates, water etc. are all being addressed.  The task on both fronts in monumental for any Government.

I have been following the Coronavirus Worldometer daily and it's frightening to see the numbers.  We are somewhat lucky in Australia in that we are further away from the rest of the world and also a couple of weeks behind so we have a little bit of time to sort things out.  Anyone returning home to our country is now put up in a city hotel compliments of the Australian Government for 14 days of quarantine.  As much as people are finding that difficult [so is the rest of the world staying home by the way] it reduces the risk of infection.  The previous order was to self quarantine for 14 days however if someone landed in Sydney and lived on the central coast or anywhere else for that matter they would have to catch a bus, train, taxi, uber in order to get home to do 14 days of quarantine all the time if infected and not showing symptoms basically passing it onto many other people.  I think this was a very good move and wished it could have started a couple of weeks ago.

This is the numbers with 8 days in between:-

WORLD WIDE
Wednesday 25-03-2020       World Wide Cases 417,348                Deaths 18,596
Thursday    02-04-2020        World Wide Cases 936,886                Deaths 47,264

AUSTRALIA
Wednesday 25-03-2020        Australian Cases     2,144                Deaths not sure didn't look
Thursday    02-04-2020        Australian Cases     5,124                Deaths 24

I'm not sure what the number of deaths were on the 25th March in Australia as I only recorded the number of cases.  We are doing okay however 1 person dying is 1 person too many and my heart goes out to anyone who has lost a family member.  The numbers world wide are staggering and we are not at the peak yet.  The above numbers are at the time I looked on the website during that day.  Stay home and stay safe everyone.

On a brighter note here are some pictures from our week for you.

The kids are home for Week 10 of Term 1 followed by 2 weeks of school holidays and then online learning for the time being.

Lemon Turmeric one pot wonder.

Weekly batch of home made yoghurt.

Afternoon shadows inside the house.

Sunday breakfast made by the kids of hash brown, bacon and eggs.

My 14 year old daughter wanted Lasagne for her Birthday Dinner however as we had all the family over we got pizza's instead to make it easy because it was a school night and lots of people.   On Saturday she made Lasagne all by herself so I put up our hand made Birthday Bunting to make it special.

She made the lasagne and I put together the salad.