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Thank you for the update! I am flying to France tomorrow to start my first ever Camino from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on this Wednesday. I find your updates and forum discussions really very helpful. I look forward to my walk
Thank you for your updates, always very informative.
Hi! Welcome here! Buen Camino and stay safe.
Thank you for the update! I am flying to France tomorrow to start my first ever Camino from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on this Wednesday. I find your updates and forum discussions really very helpful. I look forward to my walk
Always enjoy tour video updates Ivar. Thank you once again
Yes ,indeed Mike .The Mark Twain quote springs to mind also when thinking about the Covid 19 situation in the UK and the statistics therein.I love your weekly blogcasts from Santiago and I hate to dilute your optimism about declining coronavirus figures for Spain. However, what you are seeing is a major change in the way Spanish coronavirus data is collected and reported, not a decline in infections. Since the beginning of September, the daily figures only include cases already validated by the Ministry of Health in their pdf report. Initially this gives a number of daily cases approximately 50% of those reported by the previous system. In the new system the full number of daily cases take over a week to be validated. When this has been done, the figures for the previous week are adjusted upward. As a result, making a comparison of last week (using the unadjusted figure) with the previous week's data (which will by then have been adjusted) will always show an apparent decline. All this is described by the Johns Hopkins University daily report which reports and comments on coronavirus data from every world country. If you click on this and follow the link in the figures for Spain to source, the official Spanish figures appear together with a health warning about the data. The unfortunate position is that infections in Spain are now growing again rapidly, as they are in neighbouring France and now also in the UK.
The R number shows the rate of change in the number of weekly infections. If the data shows an apparent decline of 50% (which it does), the R number will be 0.5 (which it is). Sadly this does not reflect what is actually happening. The famous quote popularised by American author Mark Twain comes to mind....'There are three kinds of lie; lies, damn lies and statistics'.
Unfortunately we can't get out of Australia so the Camino waits, again.
Thanks, Ivar, for your update. Ultreya!!!