Good Morning from Bali, Indonesia.
The Western world will wake up in a few hours to some extremely sad News Headlines that Coronavirus, COVID -19 cases worldwide will have now reached 10 million and that roughly 5% of those cases have passed which is almost 500,000 deaths.
The latest statistic is that it worldwide there are 9,903,777 cases and 496,796 deaths.
This horrific pandemic which we warned about as early as January 19th. when few even knew it existed is now one of the most dangerous pandemics in history.
And it's not getting any better worldwide. As you can see by this graph it has been increasing exponentially.
It is currently increasing at an average rate of 4% per day worldwide.
While the country where this virus first broke out, China has seen a levelling off of new cases for the last 67 days the rest the world is increasing exponentially.
This horrific pandemic which we warned about as early as January 19th. when few even knew it existed is now one of the most dangerous pandemics in history.
And it's not getting any better worldwide. As you can see by this graph it has been increasing exponentially.
It is currently increasing at an average rate of 4% per day worldwide.
While the country where this virus first broke out, China has seen a levelling off of new cases for the last 67 days the rest the world is increasing exponentially.
I believe after six months of watching the news and Charting the cases and deaths daily the most important statistics is not how many cases a country has, because many can fudge or simply don't have the capability, facilities or budget to test a lot of people.
If you follow Donald Trump's logic last week he stated he told his people to stop testing so much because the statistics look so bad.
We'll talk about Trump on another blog and how his total incompetent handling of this crisis has led to America now having the largest amount of cases in the world.
To me as a family man with two young children the most important thing is how many deaths are there reported per million population of a country
That statistic is not hard to confirm because reporters are constantly combing the morgues, the hospitals and documenting accurate statistics on how many people actually died from the virus in the last six months.
U.K. one of Highest % Deaths in World:
As you can see below the United Kingdom has the title of having one of the largest amount of deaths per million population in the modern world at 640. Only San Marino, Belgium, and Andorra have higher rates.
Spain, Italy, Sweden, France also located on the European continent are also very high.
So that kind of takes away the argument that the countries with the best healthcare should have the least amount of deaths.
I personally believe one thing that leads to higher death rates in the Western world is the modern society with its lack of exercise and poor diets. Countries with unhealthy out of shape citizens will have the highest death rates.
Even my own home country of Canada has 225 deaths per million people.
June 26th 2020
Indonesia & Bali Among Safest Countries in the World.
Frankly I feel much safer even in the most dangerous areas of Indonesia which only has a death rate of 10 citizens per million population. This ranks them as 109th on the list of the most dangerous countries in the world.
Many will argue that deaths are not recorded properly in Indonesia, and they may be right. But even if it was twice or three times as much at 30, 40, or 60 it would still be much less than the United Kingdom's 640 deaths per million population.
And finally we come to where I live now Bali which I've been saying since day one "Bali is one of the safest places in the world to live during this pandemic".
"Bali is one of the safest places in the world to live during this pandemic".
Although we've seen exponential growth in the last couple weeks, in the hundred 117 days since we've had our first case we've only had a little over 1,200 cases and only 11 deaths which is just a little over two deaths per million population.
"Little over two deaths per million population"
Again the critics will come out and say there's more than that. They're probably right. So if the government statistics are only 10% correct that means there could be 110 deaths again compared to America's 300 deaths and UK 600 deaths per million population we are still safer than them.
Which makes me feel quite comfortable in the decision I made to not go around the world for my very important birthday next month and stay right here at home.
The bottom line is this. The Bali government is working feverishly on getting things under control with the help of the local village Banjars and local village police.
In just the last few days they closed down and deported a Syrian who held a massive yoga get together with no social distancing and no masks.
A nightclub who was featured on viral video on the West Coast of Bali was also closed down and the owners appear to be in serious trouble with the government.
Gradually Reopening Bali.
For the next six months I expect now that there is domestic travel allowed on airlines that many people from Jakarta and other major cities throughout Indonesia will want to get out of their apartments, no matter how lavish they are and come stay in a home, villa or hotel suite in Bali in the very near future.
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They will forgo their trips as I have to Europe and other places for fears of catching viruses on long-haul flights. They will not feel comfortable with the high rate of deaths in foreign countries. especially countries such as the United Kingdom Europe and the United States.
Hopefully sometime in August, September or October international flights will begin to realize what I have stated above. Bali is one of the safest places the world and with proper new normal protocols hotels will be able to safely entertain international guests once again.
Pray that I'm right for the sake of the Balinese and the Balinese hospitality industry.
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