Couldn’t sleep. Woke up early. Tuned in “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. I know what to expect; nothing but constant Trump bashing; they’ve literally been doing it every day for 4 years, but I think its important to be aware of what propaganda the Left is pushing. What I did not expect was multiple segments focused on detailing the stupidity of Trump supporters. In one breath they blame Trump for dividing the nation (a claim I do not support) while in the next breath they call Trump supporters idiots incapable of independent thoughts. We’ve come to expect politicians to piss on each other, but the Left’s continued attack on the people of America is revolting. Although I marvel and am confused by people who support the Left’s agenda; it has always been my own intellectual curiosity about how it is they have reached their positions — never have I simply said those supporting the Left are stupid idiots. The Left continues to show its true colors by attacking people because they are unable to debate the issues. You want to make it personal Joe? Fine, fuck you!

Excellent talk. Must watch. Extremely thought provoking.

California asserts laws to limit 1st Amendment rights (click here) …..

Summary

This guidance provides an updated plan for Californians to gather outside their household and replaces the prior gatherings guidance issued on September 12, 2020 and March 16, 2020. It applies to private gatherings, and all other gatherings not covered by existing sector guidance are prohibited. Gatherings are defined as social situations that bring together people from different households at the same time in a single space or place.  When people from different households mix, this increases the risk of transmission of COVID-19. 

Mandatory Requirements for All Gatherings

All persons planning to host or participate in a private gathering, as defined above, must comply with the following requirements. Local health jurisdictions may be more restrictive than this guidance. Refer to your local guidance for what is allowed in your area.

1.    Attendance

• Gatherings that include more than 3 households are prohibited. This includes everyone present, including hosts and guests.  Remember, the smaller the number of people, the safer.
• Keep the households that you interact with stable over time. By spending time with the same people, risk of transmission is reduced. Participating in multiple gatherings with different households or groups is strongly discouraged.
• The host should collect names of all attendees and contact information in case contact tracing is needed later.

2.    Gather Outdoors 

• Gatherings that occur outdoors are significantly safer than indoor gatherings. All gatherings must be held outside. Attendees may go inside to use restrooms as long as the restrooms are frequently sanitized.
• Gatherings may occur in outdoor spaces that are covered by umbrellas, canopies, awnings, roofs, and other shade structures provided that at least three sides of the space (or 75%) are open to the outdoors.
• A gathering of no more than three households is permitted in a public park or other outdoor space, even if unrelated gatherings of other groups up to three households are also occurring in the same park or other outdoor space.  If multiple such gatherings are occurring, mixing between group gatherings is not allowed.  Additionally, multiple gatherings of three households cannot be jointly organized or coordinated to occur in the same public park or other outdoor space at the same time – this would constitute a gathering exceeding the permitted size.

3.    Don’t Attend Gatherings If You Feel Sick or You Are in a High-Risk Group

• Anyone with any COVID-19-like symptoms (fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, night sweats, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, tiredness, muscle or body aches, headaches, confusion, or loss of sense of taste/smell), must stay home and not come into contact with anyone outside their household.
• Anyone who develops COVID-19 within 48 hours after attending a gathering should notify the other attendees as soon as possible regarding the potential exposure.
• People at higher risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 (such as older adults and people with chronic medical conditions) are strongly urged not to attend any gatherings.

4.    Practice Physical Distancing and Hand Hygiene at Gatherings

• For any gatherings permitted under this guidance, the space must be large enough so that everyone at a gathering can maintain at least a 6-foot physical distance from others (not including their own household) at all times. 
• Seating must provide at least 6 feet of distance (in all directions—front-to-back and side-to-side) between different households.
• Everyone at a gathering should frequently wash their hands with soap and water, or use hand sanitizer if soap and water are not available. A place to wash hands or hand sanitizer must be available for participants to use.
• Shared items should not be used during a gathering. As much as possible, any food or beverages at outdoor gatherings must be in single-serve disposable containers. If providing single-serve containers is not possible, food and beverages must be served by a person who washes or sanitizes their hands frequently, and wears a face covering. Self-serve items from communal containers should not be used.

5.   Wear a Face Covering to Keep COVID-19 from Spreading

• When gathering, face coverings must be worn in accordance with the CDPH Guidance on the Use of Face Coverings (PDF), unless an exemption is applicable.
• People at gatherings may remove their face coverings briefly to eat or drink as long as they stay at least 6 feet away from everyone outside their own household, and put their face covering back on as soon as they are done with the activity.
• Face coverings can also be removed to meet urgent medical needs (for example, to use an asthma inhaler, take medication, or if feeling light-headed).

6.   Keep it short

• Gatherings should be two hours or less.  The longer the duration, the risk of transmission increases.

7.   Rules for Singing, Chanting, and Shouting at Outdoor Gatherings

• Singing, chanting, shouting, and physical exertion significantly increases the risk of COVID-19 transmission because these activities increase the release of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols into the air. Because of this, singing, chanting, and shouting are strongly discouraged, but if they occur, the following rules and recommendations apply:
  • All people who are singing or chanting should wear a face covering at all times while singing or chanting, including anyone who is leading a song or chant. Because these activities pose a very high risk of COVID-19 transmission, face coverings are essential to reduce the spread of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols;
  • People who are singing, shouting, chanting, or exercising are strongly encouraged to maintain physical distancing beyond 6 feet to further reduce risk.
  • People who are singing or chanting are strongly encouraged to do so quietly (at or below the volume of a normal speaking voice).
• Instrumental music is allowed as long as the musicians maintain at least 6-foot physical distancing. Musicians must be from one of the three households.  Playing of wind instruments (any instrument played by the mouth, such as a trumpet or clarinet) is strongly discouraged. 

Context

COVID-19 continues to pose a severe risk to communities and requires all people in California to follow necessary precautions and to adapt the way they live and function in light of this ongoing risk. The safest way to gather is to spend time with people in the same household or to gather virtually. 

In general, the more people from different households a person interacts with at a gathering, the closer the physical interaction is, and the longer the interaction lasts, the higher the risk that a person with a COVID-19 infection, symptomatic or asymptomatic, may spread it to others.  Public health studies have also shown that the risk of transmission is increased in indoor spaces, particularly when there isn’t appropriate ventilation.[1]  Unlike indoor spaces, wind and air in outdoor spaces can help reduce spread of the virus from one person to another. 

Planning scenarios published by the CDC estimate that, on average, a person with COVID-19 goes on to infect between 2-4 people, with a best estimate of 2.5 when there are no preventive measures.[2]  For example, if each infected person spreads the virus  to two people, who in turn spread it to two others each; those four will spread the virus to eight others; those eight will spread the virus to 16; and so on.  As a result, after 10 transmission cycles, one person could be responsible for 1,024 other people contracting the virus.[3] Additionally, there is broad agreement that people who are not experiencing symptoms can still spread COVID-19[4].  The fact that COVID-19 can be spread by people who don’t have symptoms or aren’t showing symptoms yet is one of the aspects of the COVID-19 that makes it difficult to control. 

All gatherings pose a higher risk of transmission and spread of COVID-19 when people mix from different households and communities. The likelihood of transmission and spread increases with laughing, singing, loud talking and difficulty maintaining physical distance. Limiting attendance at gatherings is a way to reduce the risk of spread as it lowers the number of different people who are interacting. Additionally, by limiting attendance there is an improved ability to perform effective contact tracing if there is a positive case discovered, which can help to slow the spread of COVID-19[5]. People who do choose to attend gatherings should discuss and agree upon the specific group rules before convening together.

[1] See, e.g., Hiroshi Nishiura, et al., Closed environments facilitate secondary transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (PDF), (www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.28.20029272v2.full.pdf); Hu Qian, et al., “Indoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2” (www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v1) [pre-print] published in medRxiv on April 4, 2020.

[2] See the CDC COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios web page

[3] See, e.g., Report 3: Natsuko Imai et al, WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Modelling, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, J-IDEA, “Imperial college London, UK. Transmissibility of 2019 -n-CoV).” See also Inglesby T B JAMA Public Health Measures and the Reproduction Number of SARS-CoV-2. JAMA Network.2020.7878 (May 1, 2020).

[4] World Health Organization (WHO) Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: implications for infection prevention precautions

[5] See Harvard Health Preventing the spread of the coronavirus Social distancing, hand washing, and other preventive measures

Toxic Masculinity is another “thing” invented by the left out of nothingness.

It is not a real.

Once again, the left has taken a small number of behaviors exhibited by a very few and applied it to the entire population; in this case ALL men. Once created, the “syndrome” becomes a vessel into which all kinds of behaviors can be added, labeled as bad.

See how it works?

The judgement phase is next. All men are measured against an arbitrary and sweeping set of rules and then sanctioned for any deviation. But it is more than a social framework. The rules become codified in laws and regulations.

Why? Because oppression of a group (men in this case) creates fear and people living in fear are more easily controlled.

This is the template of the Left. Like so many other things, Toxic Masculinity is not a real thing. Reject it completely.

While we don’t formally have a “government religion” as forbidden by the constitution, government has successfully achieved the next best thing … “state controlled religion”

For over 6 months our church has been “online”. On the brief occasions people have been allowed in the church they must 1) make a reservation for a seat 2) wear masks 3) socially distance and 4) communion is prohibited. When televised the church normally full of people looks like a scene from some dystopian sci fi movie. The saddest part is the “live cast” of Mass has literally evolved into a powerpoint presentation with voiceover by the priest. Communion is a separate process via “drive through”.

While the rest of the world has mostly returned to normal following C19 churches are being regulated out of existence and the churches are going along.

Atheists will not rest until “science agrees” there is no God. Its ok to cry now.

It has always bothered me there are no prominent women willing to lead the fight against 3rd term abortion. Carly Fiorina spoke to it in the debates but that was a “one and done” comment. Why don’t prominent Hollywood actresses raise awareness of the brutality and anti-science behind 3rd term abortion? Whats the problem with all the conservative women with a platform in the news media? The silence is deafening. It makes me sad.

• Systemic Racism
• A woman’s right to choose
• Assault Weapons should be banned
• Healthcare should be free
• The wealthy don’t pay enough taxes
• Republicans only care about the rich
• Republicans don’t understand science
• Capitalism is unfair
• Boarders are cruel
• China is not our enemy
• Sanctuary Cities
• Micro aggressions are real
• Hate crimes are real
• Electoral College needs to be eliminated
• Gender fluidity is real
• Global Warming is real
• BLM & Antifa are peaceful
• In more than 9 judges on the supreme court

Then you have literally been brainwashed by people who intend to control every element of your life. Good luck with that.

The polls have Biden leading the presidential race by a substantial amount both popular and electoral college.

The country is at a crossroads. If Biden/Harris win the election it will transform the nation into something completely different. Federalism will die. Liberties will become government granted and controlled, not God given.

Will we survive? More or less I suppose. It won’t be America – it will be USA version 2.

My hope of course is the polls are as wrong now as they were in 2016.

My prediction for the VP debate is that Harris will use laughs and giggles to dodge tough questions and pressure from Pence.

Watch for it.

As a proud computer scientist and software engineer I have frequently pondered the degree to which I did or did not play a role in the decline of our world due to the evolution of social media.  For me, the uncertainty is now resolved; I didn’t help bring it about.

Computer automation started simply as that, automation.  Scientists used computers to solve complex math problems which otherwise were error prone and took days, weeks, and even longer, to solve.  

By the time I entered the industry, the focus (and growth)  had shifted to business automation.  Frictionless movement of money created massive amounts of opportunity.  

Next, the evolution of data bases gave us business intelligence.  By monitoring the buying patterns of customers and flow of inventory retailers revolutionized product placement to  ensure maximum exposure of specific products to specific customer segments.  Precision targeting of products and services gave huge macro boosts in revenue.  In less than a decade retailers who were unable to place products with computer precision fell into the trash heap.

Throughout my career I worked in what is called product development, within that even more specifically in the domain of “low level software”.  This means my days were spent going back and forth between hardware and software to ensure the two played well together.  While the fundamentals of database technologies were known to me, I was always flabbergasted at the amount of data being collected by companies and the capabilities of software applications exploiting the data.  

Up to this point in time it felt like everyones goals were aligned.  Everyone wanted to serve the customer and maximize profit.  It was a noble profession and to be clear mostly still is today. 

Now comes the complicated parts; the confluence of 2 technologies which which when used together has profoundly changed world for the worse.  

The 1st is Artificial Intelligence (AI); insanely capable databases paired with software applications  that seek out data anomalies and trends in the blink of any eye.  There simply are no words to describe the massive amounts of data in modern databases.  The types of data are equally awesome.  For just one example; everyone with a phone broadcasts their gps location every moment of every day giving companies and governments precise information about where you are at any point in time.  Are you walking, running, driving, flying? Are you going up steps? Stepping into a car? Riding a bike?  At the mall? Which store? Which part of the store?  Shoes?  Men’s or women’s department? High end store?  Discount store?  Are you at church?  All this data about you is being collected about you and everyone else every second of the day.  

What is done with the data is the 2nd bit of technology.  Under the guise of helping customers; companies such as google and Facebook create and maintain detailed profiles of everyones personality.  Bullshit you say?  No, it’s true.  Armed with a detailed profile of who you are, google will not only deliver search results tuned to who you are, but also ….. wait for it ….. tuned to who they think you should be., what you should believe.  What prior generations called persuasion has been weaponized by these information giants and is being used as targeted propaganda.  These companies have learned they can not only influence you to buy the overpriced tennis-shoes but they can also modify your behaviorism other parts of your life; starting with and most importantly politics.  By bombarding you with propaganda aimed at your weaknesses and current beliefs they can nudge you one way or the other; including you vote.  It takes time, but people become numb and unaware of the nuanced nudges.  But time and social affiliation win out over time.  Such changes also require an ever diminishing sense of ethics, values and morals.  By bombarding us with false narratives about how everyone does it or everyone believes we start to adopt the narrative for ourselves to avoid being left behind.  

The genie is out of the bottle.  

People ARE the product.

Truth is being invented .  

These companies are NOT noble.   People willing to work there are NOT noble people.

2+2=5