Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

1324 new cases today, and 16 deaths, in the #Covid19Cymru official figures. I still don't know what they've done with the local authority data.
That's the highest for cases, and the highest for deaths since the summer bar one day which had a backlogged data dump.
Will try to post graphs later.

Here are the graphs for today #Covid19Cymru, and they don't look pretty.
If anyone questions why we need a lockdown, shown them these.

Many local lockdowns have spectacularly failed, looking at today's case figures:

≥50
292: Cardiff
163: Swansea
152: RhCT
88: Neath PT
69: Caerffili
68: Blaenau Gwent
63: Bridgend
50: Merthyr
50: Wrecsam

≤10
10: Gwynedd
9: Môn
5: Penfro
5: Ceredigion

Drakeford stepped up direct diplomacy with Brussels after Downing Street Brexit bust-up - Nation.Cymru https://nation.cymru/news/drakeford-stepped-up-direct-diplomacy-with-brussels-after-downing-street-brexit-bust-up/
"The flurry of meetings came after the Welsh government’s European advisory group called on ministers to make their divergence from the UK government’s positions clear to the EU."

Today's #Covid19Cymru figures show the increase in cases still rising - 1104 today puts the 7-day average up to over 1000 for the first time (1008).

There were 5 deaths (it's Sunday; slow reporting) recorded, taking the 7-day average up to 9.43, its highest since 2nd June.

Cases table:
≥50
178: RhCT (claiming first place over Cardiff - for the first time?)
154: Cardiff
94: Swansea
73: Neath PT
72: Caerffili
56: Wrecsam
56: Merthyr
52: Bridgend

≤10
4: Penfro
3: Ceredigion

So in the beta version of QOTO I've been working on I got a **lot** of new features working and coming soon.. a few examples:

* Captcha registration (less spam!)

* Groups! This includes a group directory tab to be able to browse groups as well as support for rendering and tagging groups properly. I will also be bringing up a second server to support creating groups and allows group moderation

* Markdown formatting for toots!

* Circles, essentially finer grained permission controls where you can create a circle of followers and limit a post so only a specific set of circles can see it.

So far all the above features have been tested and seem to be working, so should be able to do a release very shortly.

#QOTO #Mastoadmin #Fediverse #Mastodon

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Google is indistinguishable from a man-in-the-middle attack.
Google Meddling With URLs In Emails, Causing Security Concerns

Here are the graphs and my analysis for today's #Covid19Cymru data.

Cases: 626 (cf last Monday 487)
7-day average: 809
Deaths: 1 (cf last Monday: 4)
7-day average: 5.57

103: Cardiff
59: Swansea
46: Fflint
46: Wrecsam
45: Bridgend
45: Neath PT
37: RhCT
.
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9: Powys
7: Penfro
5: Trofaen
5: Vale of G
3: Ceredigion

Being a Monday, these figures are lower than usual (based on Sunday reporting). So it looks better, but when casees are compared with last Monday it's higher.

In case anyone was wondering if the #Covid19Cymru lockdown was necessary, we have:

Cases today: 1148 (the highest so far)
Deaths: 10

Although there is an element of catch-up after the weekend, this clearly shows that the lockdown was needed.

More later, when I come back from getting the stores in for the next 2 weeks.

60,000,000 gallons of oil sinking between Venezuela and Trinidad

(That's six times as much as Exxon-Valdez)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sXRU65-3eE

This is an avoidable disaster

If you can contact your representatives, please do so. This disaster will likely impact most of the Caribbean if not parts of the southern United States too.

This image shows current flows in the Caribbean. The ship is currently between Venezuela and Trinidad.

https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/data/13030/6r/kt167nb66r/figures/kt167nb66r_fig174.gif

I am linking a petition here Please sign it if you want to show support.

https://www.change.org/p/government-of-trinidad-and-tobago-take-action-to-prevent-the-nso-nabarima-oil-spill

Call on PM Keith Rowley to Address Concerns of Major Oil Spill Risk in the Gulf of Paria!

More info:

Search FSO Nabarima

AIS link (ship locator)

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9316567

This is about to become the one of the worst oil spills of the century. The US ambassador to Trinidad has stated that they will not impose sanctions or restrictions on parties looking to assist. http://www.looptt.com/content/us-embassy-urges-immediate-action-fso-nabarima

We have just days left to prevent this environmental catastrophe.

While this happens, the Venezuelan government denys that any problem is occurring. http://www.news.gov.tt/content/trinidad-and-tobago-government-continues-action-issue-fso-nabarima

This ship contains 6 times the oil of the Exxon Valdez spill.

Check out the internal condition

https://gcaptain.com/photo-shows-fso-nabarima-with-severe-list-off-venezuela/
This needs international attention and it needs it now.

This is an environmental problem that you, yes you, can directly make a difference with.

"Trinidad is my homeland and to see this happen is like a bomb going off in slow motion." - Reddit user

https://gcaptain.com/photo-shows-fso-nabarima-with-severe-list-off-venezuela/

We were told this would not happen. It completely undermines confidence in the app, making it next to useless.
I am hereby uninstalling it until I can be assured it won't happen again.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/news/exclusive-police-given-access-to-test-and-trace-data-on-those-told-to-self-isolate/7028653.article