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LET'S ALL MOVE TO HAWAII...

     From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):

          DAY  USA  WORLD    Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82
July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572
Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130
Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82
Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85
Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118
Dec    30       3880    14748       1224       299      465
Jan     14        4142    15512         1151        189       712
Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398
Mar     2        1989     9490        1726       110      194
April   6         906     11787         4211       631       37
May    4         853    13667        3025      3786      59 
June   1         287    10637         2346      3205      95
 July   7          251      8440        1595         817     411
Aug    4          656    10120        1118         532     423 
Sept  22       2228      9326          839        279     124
Oct    6         2102      8255          543        315       59
Nov   3         1436      7830         186         458       23
Dec    1        1633      8475          266        477       28
Jan    7         2025      6729         148        285      140
       28          2732   10,516         779        862      133
Feb  2           2990   12,012         946        991      175
      24           1823     9,809        996        304       40
Mar     2        1778     7,756         335        173        28
         11        1022      6002         465           88       28
         16         982      5579         354           59       40
         18         721       5214         380           69       39
         23         771       4695         294           67         6 
         24         649      5008        300           82       33
         31          676      4287         276           28       44
Apr     1          439     4056         290           52       12

Summary:
  • Well, finally, a sign that the USA is truly looking better.  We only had 34,561 new cases yesterday, 9th place in the world, and almost half the rate of the World.
  • Parts of the world still suffering in new cases (per million population in parentheses):
    • South Korea  320,675 (6251)
    • Germany  257,768 (3058)
    • France  169,311 (2485)
    • Vietnam 80,838 (817)
    • Italy  75,885 (1258)
    • UK  63,462 (926)
    • Australia  60,286 (2319)
    • Japan  52,765 (419)
    • USA  34,561 (103)
      • California  5,398 (137)
      • New York  4,806 (246)
      • Georgia  2928 (276)
    • Brazil  31,561 (14.7)
    • Thailand  27,560 (394)
    • Austria  25,893 (2845)
    • Netherlands  25,416 (1495)
    • Greece  21,096 (2048)
    •  
    • World  1,491,988 (189)

    • China  1,839 (1.3)
    • India  1,335 (1.0)
  • Note that the new cases rate of the USA is 1/60 that of South Korea.  Most of Europe is 10 to 30 times worse than us.
  • China, has a new case rate 100 times lower than the USA, but decided to today continue the lockdown of Shanghai, which with 22 million people is almost double the population of Beijing.

Earlier this month I posted on WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN HAWAII.  Town and Country just released LET'S ALL MOVE TO HAWAII...  But there is a catch.  You need to have a lot of money.  What has happened is the charge of the billionaire brigade.

  • One grew up in Hawaii, Steve Case, who is worth $1.5 billion or so, and last year was only #2035 in the Forbes billionaires list, and got there when he founded Quantum Computer Services in 1985, and in 1991 as CEO changed its name to America Online, which a decade later succeeded in a $164 billion merger with Time Warner.  While he actually lives in McLean, Virginia, the Case name is liberally sprinkled throughout Hawaii.  I worked with a couple of them.
  • Hawaii has only two other billionaires:
    • Pierre Omidyar (above), 53, worth $21.4 billion.  Founded eBay, and has actively been doing good here with Honolulu Civil Beat and the Ulupono Initiative.
    • Larry Ellison, 76, is also a full-time resident, worth $93 billion.  Bought most of Lanai for $300 million and spent $500 million developing it.  While they are not exactly good friends, Bill and Melinda Gates did get married on Lanai in 1994.  Now that they are divorced, Ellison is said to be worth more than Gates.
  • While Oprah (Kula home above) might be the largest land owner on Maui with 782 acres, Peter Theil in 2011 purchased a $27 million home (right) on 1.7 acres at Makena.  58-year old Jeff Bezos recently splurged on a 4500 sq ft $78 million megamansion on 14 acres with girlfriend Lauren Sanchez on La Perouse Bay, about 2 miles from the Four Seasons Maui.

  • Mark Zuckerberg, 37, and his wife Priscilla Chan, 37, $97 billion, now own several hundred acres on Kauai.  She is a pediatrician who runs their philanthropy efforts.  They recently gave $50 million to the University of Hawaii.
  • Walmart heir S. Robson Walton, 77, $60 billion, and co-purchased Hokulia, a luxury home development project near Kona on the Big Island.  I golfed there once, and in many ways, it could well have been the best I've ever played.  Has a home at the Four Seasons Hualalai Resort, which he co-owns with Michael Dell.
  • 56-year old Michael Dell, $45 billion.  He and Rockpoint bought the Four Season Hualalei from Gates and partners for a little more than $500 million.  Also owns the Four Seasons Resort on Maui and Kona Village Resort.  He lives in the second-most expensive home in Hawaii at $62 million, known as the Raptor Residence in Kukio, with 7 bedrooms 18,500 sq ft interior and nearly 200,000 sq ft lot.
  • Where is Kukio?  A more exclusive location than the adjacent Hualalai.  Read this to see who lives there.  They have a golf course, where membership comes with land purchase, but you need to kick-in another $275,000 and $80,000/year.  Public not invited.  Below, that black blob is a lava flow of only 200 years ago.  In geologic time, that is only yesterday.
  • 56-year old Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, $8.4 billion, wears Hawaiian shirts to work and named his dog Koa, or warrior.  As a teenager he wrote software for Steve Jobs and the Macintosh.  Lives on a 5-acre estate worth $19 million on the edge of the Mauna Kea Resort
  • 58-year old Laurene Powell Jobs, $19 billion, below in a photo with her husband.  Read about how they met.  On their first date they went to St. Michael's Alley in Palo Alto, which was my favorite place for egg salad sandwich with vinaigrette dressing.  She had a tiff with Donald Trump and subsequently donated more than $600,000 to elect Joe Biden.  Is part of a group that intends to restore Kona Village to open next year.
  • 92-year old Intel co-founder      Gordon Moore, $12 billion.  His initial support for the Thirty Meter Telescope inspired Blue Revolution Hawaii to seek a billionaire.   Remember the famous Moore's Law?   In 1965 (that's how he looked then) he said that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years, and in 1975 revised it to 41%/year.  He has largely been right, and with AI upon us, will continue to confound.  He and his wife Betty have lived much of their life on the Big Island since 1991.
  • 83-year old Charles Schwab, $10.6 billion, who also lives in Kukio, but only the 7th most expensive home in Hawaii at $23 million.  With his wife Helen.
  • There are more.
I should warn you that today is April Fool's Day.  Here are 60 outrageous pranks from Parade Magazine.  With that, to ease you into the weekend, reflect on your life.

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