By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 15, 2021 As expected, our slick backed haired empty suit, Governor Gavin Newsom has clarified what to him "getting back to normal really means". Most folks would assume normal means just that, but not so for Newsom. In Monday's presser, Newsom made it very clear what normal means for him, it just might not match up with anyone else's return to normal. First and foremost, California's State of Emergency has not been suspended. Newsom can bring California back to the stringent mandates we have experienced for nearly a year and a half with the stroke of the emperor's pen. Being vaccinated means very little in Newsom's world because he is very likely acquainted with the fact that the experimental mRNA vaccines by Phizer and Moderna are more likely to produce negative health outcomes than being infected by the virus itself. In addition, all Californians will continue to abide by Newsom's edicts in much of our daily life. Mask wearing, social distancing is required any place public transit is involved. Whether you are vaccinated or not, you will be required to mask up while riding in airplanes, trains, buses, taxis, ships, ferries, subways, and hailed rides. Airports, bus terminals, marinas, train stations, and subway stations are also on the list. Schools, child care centers, prisons, health care centers, long term care facilities, emergency shelters, homeless shelters, and cooling centers are on the list as well. The governor has announced that employees at businesses and their customers can also be required to distance and wear a mask, vaccinated or not. While the rules may be changed in the future, no date has been set. It is unclear whether the tier system is still in place, but high tiers such as the three County's that remain in the "Red Tier", Del Norte being one of them, are unlikely to see much of a change, and it would appear that California as a whole will only be marginally better off. While the empty suit Newsom was claiming vaccinated individuals "could return to normal activities sans mask and distancing" with few restrictions, the list trotted out seems far from a few exceptions. What is more troubling, is that while claiming individuals can "self attest" to vaccination status there is clear movement on the governor's part to move towards some form of vaccination passports either paper or some form of electronic app on your smart phone. The unvaccinated can clearly be treated as second class citizens at businesses, public places, buildings and many public events . If any vaccine was truly the answer to this outbreak and wasn't subject to an increasing number of failures to protect one's health, voluntary inoculation could perhaps be encouraged, but that is yet to be the case. Even vaccines approved by the FDA have long and storied careers of being problematic. The current crop has not been green lighted by the FDA nor has the history of large numbers of these vaccinations been examined. Until that occurs no one knows for sure what the new vaccines will be able to accomplish. In six months or so, we are likely to find out, and may not like the outcome.