Monday, March 9, 2020

Mar 9 2020 - Counting Flower

That's right, Victoria is in the middle of its annual light-hearted promotion of counting flowers.   While it is light-hearted, I would expect there is great determination to beat last year's count. 

I went over to the twitter feed and the total was almost 45,000,000,000 on Friday.  You can check out the twitter feed with beautiful blooming landscapes here:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23flowercount&src=typed_query

The hashtag is #flowercount to see all the posts of trees, shrubs and flowers in bloom. There is a great display at Instagram demonstrating to all non-Victorians what makes Victoria so wonderful. 

Could we predict that there is the possibility in the future that we would look at the latest update on Coronavirus before going out to count flowers? There are now before and after photos of famous tourist attractions in Europe. The article showing the photos is HERE.

And that made me think of the immediate vacation plans for March Break to popular U.S. destinations like Disney World in Orlando?  The Washington Post had an article about children making a cancer charity visit to Orlando with this statement: "the virus wasn't anyone's top concern".  Following that statement, the article goes on to outline the declared state of emergency on Sunday, the death of two patients in Florida, and that 278 people being monitored.

I wonder what the tipping point is?  What would it take for you to not travel or cancel travel? Which locations would you worry about?  How many cases would concern you?  These are questions that will be with us for a while now.


Our picture today celebrates Spring in Victoria.
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