COVID
There is currently a total of 6 active community cases in the whole of Australia. 1 in Vic, 2 in NSW, 3 in WA. According to worldometers, the world has 18,273,486 active cases. with 3,385,526 total deaths.
6 months on, 70% of patents who were in ICU still have mild symptoms – such as shortness of breath and weakness, persistent cough, loss of smell and taste.
Human movement is a fundamental right. The government’s ban on overseas travel goes against that right. The Australian government has ripped up the contract between a nation and it’s citizen. “Instead of helping Australian citizens who are in trouble overseas in India, the government is abandoning, and worse, criminalising them”. When we close the boarders to even our own citizen, it’s a sign that we have no faith in our “world class quarantine system”.
Work from home is here to stay, give employees control over when, where and how they work is the key to attracting and retaining talent. Atlassian goes all in, and you only need to come into the office 4 times a year.
Finance and Economics
Australia’s rich are moving into crypto. Bitcoin is trading at 48,700 USD or 63,330 AUD. People have attributed this recent drop to Elon Musk saying that he was worried about the CO2 emission generated by bitcoin mining, and that Tesla will stop accepting bitcoin for cars. However they haven’t even started to accept bitcoin for cars yet, and people also missed that he didn’t sell all his $1.5 billion holdings. The other thing to note is that we’ve been trading in this range since Feb21. People also forget that Elon is a master troll on twitter, you don’t know when he is trolling and when he is not. Live by the meme lord, get rekt by the meme lord.
House prices are at all time highs! So who is to blame? Unfortunately, no one is taking responsibility. Not the RBA, not APRA, not the federal gov, not the state gov. We can’t blame foreign investors anymore, because they don’t exist with borders closed. We can’t blame lack of supply as we are building more than ever. So what else is there to blame? It’s all the easy credit, all the debt and the lending that is pushing house prices up. The debt to income ratio is through the roof.
Melbourne CBD shops and eateries are facing a struggle for survival with missing workers, no international tourist, no business events, no international students and no working holiday people. I think we will see more places close. We are going through the long and insidious insolvency phase that Raoul Pal had predicted. He talked about it again in his introduction to the exponential age. It’s worth listening to if you are not familiar with his thesis.
There is currently legislation to remove the power that super funds and other large investors have on big businesses and give back power to executives and directors.
Other Stuff
You should be updated to the latest 14.5 version of iOS if you own an iPhone, and you should turn the ability that apps have to track you across different apps – OFF. Here are some other interesting features.
This girl is ready to enter the hunger games, survive the apocalypse and join the avengers with her bow and arrow skills!!
Swimming has been the topic that I’m most engrossed in at the moment. Here’s a similar video on what training looks like for the stage I’m at right now for Total Immersion swimming. I’m doing dry land drills as well. I’m not too talented in the water unfortunately, and some basic movement are taking me longer to get. The main thing that I’m working on is going from superman to skate, back to superman, back to skate. I don’t know how to breath yet (it’s the last step in total immersion swimming). And I don’t know how to deal with the deep end of the pool where I can’t touch the bottom. I also struggle with floating on my back! However I keep my end goal in mind, it is to get close to this kind of freestyle swimming efficiency.
Have a great week all!