Welcome to this week’s update on the modern plague. 2837 active cases in Victoria, up from 1484 active cases from last week.
130 in hospital, 28 in ICU, 18 on ventilators (All in Victoria alone!). Melbourne even got a mention in the 14 Juillet interview with the French president for our lockdown (around 28mins in).
Probably after today’s official numbers, we will be at 3000 active cases. If it starts falling away after this it means lockdown is working. If it doesn’t fall away it could mean 1 of two things. Lockdown is not working, or the incubation period is longer than 14 days. Or a combination of the two. After all, everyone was ‘exercising’ when I went for my walk last Friday.
New rules around new mandatory mask wearing, starting to be enforced from Thursday. Basically, $200 fine if you found not to be wearing a mask in public. Scarf is ok if you don’t want to be fined, however it won’t protect you from COVID. Ok to go for a run without a mask, but bring your mask in your pocket to avoid a fine. You are supposed to put it on after and before exercise according to the rules. Under 12 year old if or if still going to primary school doesn’t require a mask. Also unless someone finds a link that clarifies this – if you’re driving you need to wear your mask. That’s a bit stupid.
Also take your mask off if you go to a bank.
Interesting to note that NSW is starting to tick up again at 71 active cases, they were at 10 last week. They could be in lockdown again in no time.
Here’s how it’s looking on the graph
In the world we have 5,321,836 active cases. And 607,833 people died. And watching this ER doctor talk about COVID just breaks your heart. And this is what a hospital in Texas is looking like.
This lady got backlash on twitter for trying to shame hospital staff for not providing service because she refused to wear a mask. What an idiot.
I found this COVID update interesting, it covers a range of things around the world.
Seems like the trend is if you ease restrictions, you basically get the second wave – as seen in Israel.
In what scenario do we begin to ease restriction again, how many active cases do we go ok, it’s fine to travel on peak hour transport now and bring everyone back to being co-located in 1 location. Given how many cases we have now, and given that we were easing restrictions (around 40 active cases). Does the government go ok, we will only ease restrictions again when we are at levels where we previously were. If you ever played the board game Pandemic, there’s only 1 way to win – find all the cure. But there’s many ways to lose.
Message hasn’t changed, make sure you have a stock of items you normally eat / use. It’s uncertain times still, at any point a lock down could happen in your suburb that you cannot leave your suburb, and if you combine that with a possibility that your supermarket is forced to close because COVID is discovered, you don’t want to be without any essential items. Supermarket closing because of COVID is not unusual, here’s some suburb with a supermarket closed – Greenvale, Eltham, Braybrook and Ardeer stores
A squirrel has tested positive to the bubonic plague in Colorado, but maybe we should worry about nunchuk bears.
Did you know that no other country has banned its citizens from leaving, it speaks volume to the nanny state we live in.
4 ways leaders can encourage people to take time off. Not sure I would take time off – I’m having too much fun typing this.
Markets and Economics
Pretty accurate venn diagram.
Alan Jones has a point in his rant. The response hasn’t been great, and it’s causing issues for the economy.
I’ve noticed a lot of renovations happening (with what seems like the intention to sell), a lot of shared houses have been disbanded and now sit empty, a lot of places with “for lease” signs out front (in the middle of winter!), and some evidence that a lot of people are trying to sell. There must be tonnes of air bnb that sit empty with borders closed. And there must be some of those that have converted to long term rentals that can’t find tenants. There must be some turbulence for property prices and that’s going to affect the pricing of loans on the books of the banks (do they keep it on their books?) and in essence the stability of the banking system.
The ABC has done an extensive article about the bail-in law amendments that is currently being put forth in parliament. We’re not allowed to discuss this in the open in mainstream media for financial stability according to APRA. But my worries for the money we have in the bank has increased, since the government has something to hide.
Bob Prince – Co-CIO at Bridgewater gives his view of the state of the economy which i found interesting.
Get ready for the Fed to start buying stocks in the US.
Price of gold?
It’s coming, the dogecoin standard!
How much is your fiat currently worth? 1 AUD exchanges for 7,612 sats. Check out the rest here.
State of the world.
I’ve noticed a trend towards freedom of speech crack down, even in the US.
Federal police strike protester with baton.
Based on this, it doesn’t look too good for Boris Johnson, especially when people start to compare him to NZ
Everyone’s talking about GPT-3 from OpenAI at the moment – which is basically a computer program that can interact like an intelligent human. And it’s scary how far we’ve come.
And after reading this. I can say the days of essay writing in school and university are coming to an end.
It can turn normal language into lawyer speak
It can write code.
It can write poetry.
It can generate deeply meaningful sentences.
It can also do the CEO role and generate data driven business strategies.
It’s where technology has been going. You should see the deepfake of Obama, so that you can understand how important it is in the coming years to apply your own critical thinking to any news source video or written that you come across.
I will admit I found the code months ago for this where I can sign on to zoom as someone else (they did elon musk). It was going to be hilarious. But I’m unable to run it without a bunch of new parts for my computer. So rest assured that I’m not going to gut my pc right now because parts are so expensive with supply chain issues. And if you’re wondering, I’ve built every desktop I have own from scratch except for the very first one
I’m super excited, but extrapolate that out to 20 years, when you’re approaching 50-60 years old ish. What does the job you’re doing at that age look like? ….Do you still have a job? What does life look like? A lot can change in 20 years.
I’ll leave you with this to play with, the paper clip game. Wait till you get to the automation stages, then it starts getting interesting.
Enjoy your week.