Day 39

A lot of speculations and wasted breath on the subject of de-confinement from journalist who obviously have nothing to report. The governement is sticking to its guns and is working with responsible partners to come up with a plan as announced by the end of the month. There might be an announcement next Tuesady (not confirmed yet).

I cannot avoid but playing with numbers. At the average hospitalisation rate of decrease in the past 14 days in Occitanie it would last 2 months before we have no patients. At the rate experienced last week, it would be 28 days. I vote for a very strict de-confinement rules.

The daily DB

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France

Occitanie

Continuous drop od the daily number of hospitalisation. The total number now stands at 806

Information & News

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▶︎ Masks

I expect we might here today from the Mairie in Carcassonne about the availability of masks or at least how the distribution / sale will be done. The weekly bulletin from the mairie comes out every Friday. Looking forward to read it.

In theory masks for the general public should be availablre for sale as of May 4th. Through which channels is not really known yet.

▶︎ Supplies

Although there is nothing about masks in the afore mentioned weekly bulletin (my weekly email from the mairie just arrived) , there is an updated list of places where you can:

• Get deliveries from

• Pick-up from

and so on…

A lot of good information and you should for sure check the page out.

▶︎V&B Carcassonne

Well as planned, I placed my order by email yesterday, got a confirmation by return email as well as the bill to be paid by Paypal and I am expecting delivery later this morning.

12:30 Door bell. My beer has arrived. Shame I have to drink that on my own.

As a bonus and thank you for ordering, they included 6 artisanally made saucissons

That’s service.

Food & Drinks

We have a recipe from Lesley: Claridge’s Chicken Pie

Fun

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Pic of the day

Merkel: No, we can’t send an astronaut to the sun, he’ll burn up. Trump: What if we sent him at night?

The Friday funnies from Paul

The dreaded Statistics

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1. International Statistics: Top 10 countries according to the deaths count

Thursday April 23rd 2020

Wednesday April 22nd 2020

2. International Statistics: Percentage increase of deaths from one day to the other: 

Thursday April 23rd 2020

3. International Statistics: Cases by country v population (1.000 cases or more only)

4. National Statistics: France

See also Dashboard at the top of the post

5.  Regional Statistics: Occitanie & Aude

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