Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

I never stop being amazed by the sheer _volume_ of human creativity that is available on the internet.

From billions of hours of podcasts and videos to enough beautiful art to fill a thousand museums to more music than anyone could ever listen to to the sheer breadth and depth of literature, both original and fanfics, as well as essays up the wazoo on all sorts of topics and even peer-reviewed or non-peer-reviewed research about almost every imaginable subject.

It's breathtaking.

Here's the graphs for today's #Covid19Cymru figures. Not good - at all. A "circuit breaker" really is needed, if not more.

Whatever the cause of the high number of cases and deaths reported today (946 & 10 respectively), they are the highest and second highest respectively, in this second peak.

To put Cardiff's 214 new cases into perspective: That's more than Ceredigion has had in total (since March - 163). It seems to me that local lockdown isn't working there.

We are in the first stages of a long anti-encryption march by the upper echelons of the European Union, headed directly toward Europeans’ digital front-doors.
" Orders from the Top: The EU’s Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/orders-top-eus-timetable-dismantling-end-end-encryption

The local authority tables show two authorities getting into triple figures today. Here are the top 6.
110: Cardiff
100: RhCT
55: Swansea
51: Fflint
48: Wrecsam
32: Neath PT

Only three authorities achieve single figures today:
5: Torfaen
3: Ceredigion
1: Pembrokeshire

2/2

Aberystwyth university are publishing their daily cases, which is a brave move (and to be applauded). There is 1 case today; there were none yesterday. As they say, these figures are not dependent on where the student lives, but most presumably have a GP in Ceredigion.
https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/important-info/living-and-learning-in-aberystwyth-2020-21/covid-19-case-numbers/

#BenJennings on the #UK's differing #coronavirus restrictions – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2020/oct/11/ben-jennings-on-the-uks-differing-coronavirus-restrictions-cartoon

#Politics #Satire #Covid-19 #Pandemic #Escher

Sorry I haven't had much time this weekend to keep up with the #Covid19Cymru figures here.
Yesterday was a very bad day - with 21 deaths reported. One might immediately guess that these represented an unreported backlog - and one would be correct (Cwm Taf Morgannwg apparently being the culprits). Nonetheless, it still comes as a bit of a shock, and is the highest daily death figure reported since 13th May.
Today is more normal (for recent times) - 2.
7-day average now 5.57
1/2

In terms of #Covid19Cymru new cases, they are at the second lowest since last Sunday. Which merely tells us that fewer cases get reported on a Sunday. It's a modest increase on last Sunday (467, up from 432).

46: Cardiff
42: Bridgend
36: RhCT
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28: Neath PT
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5: Merthyr
3: Pembs
1: Ceredigion
2/2