20200424F Day 115: Multiverse Dictionary: “Not” means “Not and Not Not”

Lighthouse Point, Santa Cruz, CA, April 24, 2020

I retweeted the following on Friday:

It reminded me how there is evidence of the blending of different sets of universes around us all of the time. It also reminded me how the use of the word “Not” shows up often when two opposite sets of universes are interfering with one another. Imagine communicating with someone and saying a fact with “Not” in the sentence. At this listening level, someone could not hear the word “Not” and get the completely opposite interpretation of what you said. At an energetic level, the person will hear the sentence both with and without the word “Not”. At a universe surfing level, two opposite sets of universes have only a single difference between them – the use of the word “Not”.

None of this has to do with the sunrise photo attached to this blog post. I got up early to see the sunrise and get my daily dose of UV rays for Vitamin D and immunity boost.

20200423h Day 114: Bubbles in the Air

 

A man was blowing bubble in the air along West Cliff in Santa Cruz – April 23, 2020

Santa Cruz, CA: I’m writing this on Sunday, but the picture is from last Thursday. The bubbles are similar to how I imagine multiple universes moving in a multidimensional space.

I’m going to look back at some of the tweets I posted.

The following one on synthetic DNA Aptamers had me wondering how close we are to universes in which aptamer arrays are used to detect SARS-CoV-2. Finding a treatment for COVID-19 is a higher priority. I feel universes moving closer in which we have a safe and effective treatment. I also wonder about the selective pressure on the RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2 caused by stem-loop structures.

Hydroxychloroquine is still in the news as either something that kills you are something that protects you from a bad COVID-19 experience. It is interesting to me how this drug creates a divide between Democrats and Republicans. It makes me question every other argument between these two political parties. I also wonder if services like GoodRx are the future of prescription drugs.

The following is evidence to me of multiple realities. Of course you can come up with lots of other more classical explanations, the simplest one to me is there’s a lot of parallel story lines going on energetically at one time and these often interfere with each other, resulting in apparent reporting errors like this one.

20200422W Day 113: No Unnecessary Physical Contact on Aptos Street

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Aptos, CA: Social distancing guidelines at Aptos Street BBQ include guidelines that:

EMPLOYEES and CUSTOMERS SHOULD: Not shake hands or engage in any unnecessary physical contact

As I surf back to a universe in which I can eat BBQ inside a restaurant, like Black’s BBQ in Austin, Texas, I thought I’d check to see how things were at Aptos Street BBQ. You can no longer drink a beer inside and the selection of beers on tap is reduced. You can buy bottles and cans of beer and purchase BBQ-to-go.

Face coverings are now required in order to enter the restaurant. And no more horsin’ around with “unnecessary physical contact”.

In RV news, the water on the floor of my RV appears to be coming from the AC unit.

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20200421T Day 112: Surfing Towards A More Diversified Stock Portfolio

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The stock market is still quite volatile, as evidenced by the daily movement in my top 6 stock picks: AAPL, IBM, WETF, SLV, AMD, and SFM. This is definitely not as diversified a list as I would like, with 3 technology companies in the mix. However, it is much better than it was 6 months ago when it was all in AAPL and AMD at about a 75%/25% mix. In December and January, I sold some AAPL and AMD and waited for the coronavirus crash before buying or adding to positions in IBM, WETF, SLV, and SFM. My mix is now 44%/20%/14%/11%/6%/5%. From a diversification point of view, I feel much better. My average price for these stocks are $1.23, $109.20, $3.50, $14.25, $10.00, and $16.48.

I would like to be in a universe in which there is an app, program, or website that will give me a summary financial report of my stock holdings. As a website, I would send up some JSON such as:

{ “AAPL” : 0.44, “IBM”: 0.2, “WETF”: 0.14, “SLV”: 0.11, “AMD”: 0.06, “SFM”: 0.05 }

and get back a combined set of financial parameters such as P/E, Cash Flow, Market Cap, etc. Mutual funds, especially a commodity fund like SLV, would likely need to be ignored.

20200420M Day 111: Surfing to a Better World

Santa Cruz, CA: In 20200326h Day 86: 74 days until June 8th, I discussed measurable features of the universe I’m surfing towards. In this post, I’d like to tap focus on more aspirational features.

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The first aspiration is for a world in which everyone is mindful of the fact that we, along with all other life, are all sharing this one precious planet. We all are interconnected and decisions that one of us make have the potential to affect all of us. Humans are also connected to the other life forms on this planet, including viruses which I view as living even though they require a host in order to replicate. Without viruses, it is unlikely any other life would exist. We and all other life forms are also dependent on the features of our planet that we often assume will always be there, such as air to breathe, water to drink, and sunshine to provide just the right amount of energy.

As humans on this planet, our own health is affected by the health of everyone else. The weakest link in our health chain determines the strength of our health chain. If one person contacts a deadly infectious disease, and this disease causes an outbreak on one part of the world, then it has the potential to spread to all parts of the world. Pandemics remind us that in order to keep ourselves healthy, we must think globally and focus on keeping everyone in the world healthy.

The debate we have in the United States over universal health care, and whether health care is a human right, is important and both sides need to get very clear on their positions. The tension between these two positions will enable a solution to emerge. I sense a solution with the following characteristics, specifically for the US health system although it could be in other country as well, if not already:

  1. Regulated pricing of all health related services, including prescription drugs. The government would negotiate prices with the health care providers to get fixed range pricing. The price range would be perhaps 20% and health care providers would be required to publish their prices online, including where they are in the negotiated range, and not charge greater or less than their published prices. The price range would be adjusted annually, or as needed, in response to supply and demand.
  2. Prescription drug patents go into a patent pool and drugs covered by patents can be produced by any manufacturer by paying royalties to share among all patent holders in the patent pool.
  3.  Large hospital chains are discouraged by a rising tax on profits of up to 90%. This tax rate would also apply to the salaries above a certain amount, and a value-added-tax on products and services from third-party suppliers.
  4. Small independent and doctor-owned hospitals would be encouraged. Non-profit operation of these hospitals would be highly encouraged.
  5. 80% of health care costs would be covered by the government and health care providers would bill the government directly. 20% of health care costs would be the responsibility of the individual. Individuals would be required to purchase insurance to cover all or part of this 20% in the private market.

Pandemics also remind us that regardless of which country we live in, or which culture we practice, we must trust our fellow world citizens and communicate in a real-time and transparent manner. The economic and military saber rattling that was occurring in the universe pre-coronavirus-pandemic is something that we should leave behind and not take with us to the post-coronavirus-pandemic universe. An independent group of infectious disease experts must be allowed access to any place in the world where an infectious disease outbreak occurs. If a country restricts access, then that country should be immediately quarantined off from the rest of the world.

We need a healthy world population in order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and reduce the global cost of health care.

We need to live in harmony with the other life forms on our planet.

We need to also respect and have reverence for the non-living entities on our planet – the air, water, and land.