End in sight? For now.
I can’t believe how well things seem to be going in Japan now. Pleasantly surprised, but I don’t understand it. Hope it continues.
Have even started thinking I might be able to train again sometime soon 😉
This week’s links
- Time to build up the emergency fund: When You Have No Idea What Happens Next
- I got an academic scholarship for reading the book: The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
- The real estate market in Japan is currently… murky. Viral market
- Not looking forward to this: Fears grow in Japan over heat exhaustion caused by wearing masks in summer
- This might explain the funk: Focus on the Inputs
- Best not to pay too much attention to it: The stock market is wilder than you think
- More options are possibly a good thing: Lower house passes bill allowing delayed pension payout
- Guess the house didn’t win this time: Las Vegas Sands Gives Up on $10 Billion Japan Casino Project
- Japan needs more of these people: Outnumbered but unafraid: Japanese climate activists confront society to save it
- The end of mass travel? Might be for the best. What is the future for travel and migration in age of Covid-19?
- Pretty bleak: Japan’s Recession to Be Confirmed With Worse Yet to Come
- Govt support for small businesses has been glacial: As Japanese gov’t slow-walks stimulus, small businesses fear collapse
- Lately I don’t feel like getting out of bed in the morning: Acceptable flaws
- Interesting numbers in here: IS IT REALLY STOCKS FOR THE LONG RUN?
What do you think? Anything good in there? I enjoyed #2 and #13 this time.
This week’s books
- The Last Emperox, by John Scalzi. Very readable, enjoyable, light sci-fi. The third in Scalzi’s current trilogy. It’s fun but somewhat forgettable stuff. His Old Man’s War books are very good.
- The Danaher Diaries 2. These are basically John Danaher’s Instagram posts about jiu-jitsu, stolen and repackaged by some scoundrel. Surprisingly brief yet insightful, good to read if you have a couple of spare minutes and an interest in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
All this positive outlook is way too early for me. I may be a fool or just a skeptic but I am not ready to let my guard down quite yet.
It’s way too complicated and there are too many unknowns for me to have an opinion. I’ve never been particularly worried about the virus itself, more about social, reputational, and professional risk. But I’ve been basically staying home since late February.
I don’t think we are anywhere near the end of this thing though, one way or another.
Heat exhaustion – I’ve always wonder actually how people can run/jog wearing a mask. I live in the countryside and I go for a run early every morning. I am the only person NOT wearing a mask and I’m sweating and breathing deeply. I don’t know how all the locals manage it! There is nobody on the streets. Actually, I never wear a mask outside in the fresh air.
The numbers are down because they aren’t testing. Further folks are being told NOT to come for treatment unless they have symptoms for 72 hours or so.