20200229S Days 56-60: Arriving in what feels like a different universe

Crestone, CO: I’m at the Elephant Cloud Tea Shop in Crestone, Colorado – elevation 8000 feet. There’s a band on stage with a drummer, clarinet player, and piano player.  I feel like I have surfed to a different universe because this universe I’m experiencing feels much different than the one I was in five days ago. Some of the differences I notice are:

1. The global stock market is not at such an inflated value;
2. COVID-19 has verified community spread in the United States;
3. The US now has a coronavirus czar, VP Pence;
4. China is no longer a country with increasing confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths;
5. I’m now in a different state, at a much higher elevation, and there is snow on the ground;
6. A friend of mine is now living in my home – my home is now on the road;
7. I don’t seem to blog daily in this universe – or maybe the surfing to get here disrupted that;
8. My diet is more vegan – just drank hot chocolate with hemp milk;
9. I don’t run any more;
10. The who.int COVID-19 risk assessment is now VERY HIGH for Regional and Global Levels with over 16 countries having confirmed local transmission;
11. COVID-19 response is now being politicized in the US;
12. There are more new confirmed COVID-19 cases outside of China than inside of China;
13. Coronavirus is now a topic of conversation in the US at the family dinner table and the local coffee shop, including the one I’m in now;
14. The COVID-19 CFR is now closer to 4% than 2%;
15. Medical experts in the US government must now get clearance from the executive branch (VP Pence) before discussing the COVID-19 pandemic;
16. US President Trump holds white house press conferences much more often;
17. The first death from COVID-19 has been confirmed in the US;
18. Afghanistan’s Taliban and the US are no longer at war;
19. Pope Francis has cancelled the last 3 days of events due to cold-like symptoms;
20. All 16 COVID-19 patients in Vietnam have been discharged from the hospital and declared cured;
21. The Shincheonji Church of Jesus, founded in 1984 by pastor Lee Man-hee and with  an estimated 240,000 followers worldwide, has been associated with the COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea;
22. scmp.com is reporting that The Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) in Hong Kong is associated with the Shincheonji Church of Jesus and it seems that this religious institution is being linked, with questionable evidence, with the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan;
23. South Korea is able to test 10000 people per day for COVID-19 while the US can seem to test only 1% of that number;
24. Thousands of migrants are now allowed to leave Turkey for the EU;
25. There are long lines outside of COSTCO – panic in the US is taking hold;
26. Iran’s former envoy to the Vatican, Sayyed Hadi Khosroshahi, has died of COVID-19; and
27. Travelers from South Korea and Italy into the US will be medically screened before boarding.

Author: J. Sands Loch

Student and teacher of reality in all its forms. I self-published my personal experience of discovering and trying to understand and use a model of reality based on the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Surfing the Multiverse: Finding Happiness One Universe at a Time Available on Kindle and from Amazon, and found in blog post form at: SurfingTheUniverse.com View all posts by J. Sands Loch