Corona Virus

You make a good point. Everywhere I said "He" I should have said "his team".

I think in his position things are inevitable, even if he started out sweet as pie;

1) The needs/wants of the team become integrated with one's own. However only the sportsman is the *visible* valuable talent/attraction, so everything else is dependent on their existence, popularity and success. I an sure that every member of the team then tries to make themselves essential by presenting their version of the world to the talented one.

2) Inevitably one becomes used to the world bending towards one's needs/wants. One never queues, one never waits, one never gets frustrated with customer service, one starts to see oneself as 'different' to other people.

3) One can pay to make things go away.

I have no clue how one copes with that without becoming at least some level of a princess.

As a businessman with a fairly large and uncontrolled expense account I saw the very smallest glimmer of that, and occasionally one finds oneself not behaving well. I cannot imagine the impact if it becomes a full time way of life, and one's own wealth not a company's.

So I have no knowledge of what the bloke is like, and little interest. He just needs to suck up the downside of what he and his team choose to do and not seek any special tretment, particularly in the context of sometrhing which has caused so much pain, anger, resentment, fear and suffering.

>>I think his team and Tennis Australia missed the big problem of entry to Australia

The fact that all the Australian organisations they dealt with said it would be ok may have lulled them into a false sense of security. Even the Government only reacted because the media and it's lemmings started wailing.

But he made a choice, he should have seen the risk, now he can suck it up.

But if they hadn't done what they did - how many would have died from Covid? And how many would be suffering long term effects of having had Covid?

$40bn sounds like a lot to mere mortals whereas it's a rounding error on a government spreadsheet - unless you owe them 2 cents in underpaid taxes.

Can kickers don't worry about $8k/head, that's what your children are for.

Happy inheritance kids.

Edit: while that was a flippant response there are always going to be the unknowns that you can only deal with and not plan for.
Expect Mr. Putin's escapades to add a 0 or two to the bill of he really gets out of hand.

If you think that someone earning £100,000 pays tax and NI approximating to £33,000pa already, the increased burden is rather large and likely to be left to our children unless there is some magic economic growth wave where we are all very happy to pay huge amounts of tax because we have made huge amounts of money.