Parademic

-III. Basic Information and Questions

-Contents        -Glossary        [Link to a picture]      =#= added link pertinent to previous link

Keywords: Instinct, Bradyoccult, Propagation, Airports, Fomite, Parademic, Deceleration, Exploitative Journalism, Rebound

Tags: Basic Information, Misinformation, Communication, Learning, Synergies, Air Transportation Infrastructure, Language Drift, Mass Gatherings, Extinction

Excerpt: Planning for an accelerated syndemics of the bio and social sphere is hindered from the beginning because fundamental and elementary information is not easily available and takes time to acquire, analyze and then synthesize into a plan that can be implemented.

-1. Without basic and baseline information it is nearly impossible to define what is and can go wrong and then make a plan to deal with situations arising from slow environmental based catastrophes that take centuries to become noticeable (brady + occult) as they synergize and accelerate beyond the capacity of the current biosphere and societies to correct.

                    -A. With a lack of shared terminology of biocalamity and parademic concepts, places, things and acts there are limited ways to find common ground for agreement on what to do. Try to communicate a plan to solve what is wrong to others when having to use language that is either vague, conflicts with worldviews and is essentially foreign in sense and meaning.

                    -B. Surviving a rapidly changing and increasingly chaotic environment when current nouns, verbs and definitions no longer apply, without basic knowledge and/or instincts is unlikely. Add to this intentional effort to control interpretation of events in benevolent or self serving frames, unexamined assumptions and beliefs, manipulation and suppression of data, and making plans unavailable (classified) to the public and official stakeholders so what plans there are remain unknown – a plan that is not shared with those who need to know what is in the plan is not a plan and could deprive the planner of essential information.

                    -C. The above contribute to perfect conditions for global mass extinction. This can happen in a relatively sharp [deceleration curve], with an extinction event faster than previous global mass extinctions, with the exception of the Chicxulub impact [=2=]. Another difference is that if nothing changes with the accumulating toxins of the Anthropocene, the fatal doses will persist after snuffing out of the biosphere. Macro life may not rebound =2=.

-2. Information and learning gaps are a basic problem of parademic (people alongside people and disease) planning. We don’t know what is not known, what we do know may be wrong or not in a useable form, pertinent questions have yet to be formulated, and it is likely health/ environment problems are the result of previous solutions to problems Add to this situation an information vacuum and one has rumors, exploitive journalism and intentional misinformation.

-3. Lack of information and current data are the types of questions that public health, pandemic planners and pure science try to answer. Defining what is the problem is not a typical problem of military and/or disaster planners, though missing details are frustrating and potentially fatal. Military and disaster planning are relatively mature topics that have basic information available, standardized terminology and behaviors, applicable history, and easily identified information needs that have accessible resources to obtain exact information or project what is most likely. Unfortunately, their terminology and concepts are not suitable for biocalamities and parademics (biocrisis).

-4. For an example of basic information needs for applying solutions take the problem of airports during a pandemic disease.

                    -A. For the clinical epidemiologists the problem to solve is one of propagation. How does a disease causing agent spread by air and human vectors who are infected and traveling in the confined spaces of airport terminals and aircraft cabins(how does it what?). Dense crowds within shared airspaces that have multiple fomite surfaces =2= increase the possibility of being exposed to infection and then spreading to other locations and people. After travelling they and those they infected go on to infect others.

                    -B. For those dealing in crisis management of national level disasters (war, industrial, natural, economic) the issue is how to secure and get the airport back into operation for what each considers essential needs of continuity of business, continuity of government. These needs may not coincide with the needs of communities, the general population and the biosphere.

                    -C. In the intersections of society and the microsphere during a parademic, the multiple facets of the problem become a more complex issue with complications that go beyond the pathogen and/or infrastructure. It is how humans behave that results in the root problems of uncertainty about what are the key problems and how to solve when in the context of a pandemic. How to prevent [panic], [inform the public], maintain or curtail the use of [air transportation infrastructure =2=], mitigate the [exploitation of fear], avoid diversion of resources to [useless efforts], cause more and worse [problems], and other consequences that hinder [containment] and control [exacerbating the problem].

                    -D. Uninformed solutions can hinder solving parademic problems and may exponentially exacerbate the problems. Concurrently differing viewpoints about what is critical to maintain and/or save, are likely to come into conflict in a catastrophic biocalamity when dilemmas are the norm. Conflict about what is important can divert attention and resources from the problem(s) that have to be solved. If these root problems remain unsolved all other solutions are moot. In addition there will be decisions of what solutions for other problems =2= have to be maintained, or can have a temporary delay.

-5. Section III explores rudimentary information topics for the planning needs when providing interagency support and protection of the general public, not just the specialized information needs of interagency disaster management, military civil support, government and medicine.

I.1. Military Engagement.

Contents          Glossary

Keywords: Department of Defense (DoD), National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), Laboratory Response Network (LRN), Civil Military Medicine, DoD Primary Mission, Non Answers, Non State Actors, Syndemic, Command Control and Communications (C³), Normalization of Deviance

Tags: Environmental Health, Perception of the Military, Disease Outbreaks as War, Decision Making and Support, War as Biocalamity, Military Futures, Civil Military Humanitarian Operations, Information Sharing, Military Futures, Perception of the Military, War as Biocalamity, Anti Vaccination Disinformation

Excerpt: ¿Should the military be engaged in consequence management during biocrisis? Biocrises are the combination of existential, potentially global, health/ environmental threat(s) and human behaviors that facilitate the control and containment of those threats, and are instrumental in the creation, hindering remediation and accelerate biocalamities.

-1. If someone had thought to ask me when I was a pandemic planner for Region E if the military should be engaged in a severe virulent pandemic they probably would have been surprised, even shocked, by my answer.

-2. It would seem to be an obvious question but military culture avoids publicly asking why when given a mission, especially in the case of atypical ones. Overall the military would prefer to avoid being used in other ways than pure military operations. There are too many situations when force is not the best choice for problem solving, seeming effective at first, but like a biocrisis may only hide the problem and make it more insidious.

            -A. Non military organizations, both government and non government, push back on military support and as a metaphor for combating disease and/or fighting environmental causes of ill health. NGOs have worked with militaries with mixed success, operate in war torn areas that are comparable to accelerated biocalamities (syndemics), and humanitarian organizations work where military/ police/ security forces are used to maintaining elites and control/ oppress the population.

            -B. With the legitimate concerns about abuse of power, all militaries are an easy target for blame and to deflect blame. Blame tends to use a priori conspiracy theories =2= updated to fit current situations. Misinformation to control interpretation of a situation, and therefore behavior, are not always from foreign countries propaganda but can be domestic politicized frauds or non state actors.

-3. The military performing missions that they are not necessarily trained for has implications about developing a military plan that does not involve battlefields and combatants. It is very easy for military support for what starts as a peaceful humanitarian mission to go wrong =2= possibly becoming mired for years in costly unintended consequences.

-4. My brief answer is NO. The active and reserve military of the US should only be used in the most limited ways for foreign and domestic pandemics, with priority given to those missions that support national security and give real world training to capabilities that are useful in both military and non military situations. Ideally military support of biocalamities are during positive parademic behaviors, with global whole of society consensus and unity of effort.

            -A. In general as an official pandemic planner I would have avoided answering if asked by the general public, probably with non answers. I would answer if there was a valid need to share my reasoning with an official who has a legitimate need to know, and that it is likely they would share that information with responsible parties without manipulation.

            -B. I would explain by using the current context of the health/ environment/ social circumstance and the likely favorable and unfavorable consequences. To clarify I would emphasize not becoming engaged because it detracts from the Primary Mission of the US Military and degrades capabilities to perform the primary mission. This would include that for many parademic consequences of a syndemic it is appropriate and necessary to maintain and possibly enhance what was normal engagement before the biocrisis, largely because those support the primary mission and strengthen capabilities.

            -C. As a planner it was not my position to explain decisions but to defend them. Before the decision I would argue with supporting evidence for and against levels and types of response. The reasoning to provide or not provide military support for consequence management is the purview of the commander/ decision maker, as supported by their knowledgeable and informed eclectic staff. The planner’s role is to provide support for pros and cons of courses of action, and then make a plan that has the most chance of success of the decision made. An effective planner that disagrees with the decision and/or sees potential flaws in a plan will develop contingency plans (addressed in Section IV. Annexes - Considerations and Contingencies) for what can go wrong and privately still advocate with the decision maker to change/ modify the decision.

            -D. Previous and ongoing interagency engagement of the military includes the 1) National Disaster Medical System (NDMS); 2) Laboratory Response Network (LRN) =2=; and 3) Civil Military Medicine. There is a long historical precedent =2= =3= for military support to public health.

-5. The reality is that for an existential level biocrises the military is the only agency that has the: 1) Numbers and variety of equipment, personnel, capabilities that are prepared to work in lethal environments and protect themselves and others*⁶; 2) Can be tailored into multiple configurations and a variety of different concurrent missions; 3) Organizational structure that can continue to sustain operations despite severe losses in a chaotic/ uncertain operating environment caused by mass casualty and fatality events; 4) Command, Control and Communications (C³) for the complexities of managing and supporting resources that are thinly spread over large geographic areas, with multiple units performing different tasks in a wide variety of divergent situations; 5) Most likely to have the discipline to stop when ordered, safely withdraw leaving civil authority in the position to continue incomplete tasks; and, 6) Self regulate to not violate law, modify when there are conflicts between laws and the on ground situation, and address violations.

-*6. During the 2019Covid these military characteristics and values all became questionable. 1) A significant minority of military personnel refused vaccination and to follow health protocols were discharged; 2) In keeping with the trend to not prosecute political allies, members of congress and other political factions have advocated to allow return to service, despite their refusing to obey lawful orders and jeopardizing fellow soldiers; 3) The military is deeply infected with political doctrines that advocate violent overthrow of the US government and support refusing health mandates that are tied to other extreme political views; 4) The US Military is still learning how to implement counter disinformation =2=, including those perpetuated by domestic sources, that weaken the military; 5) The origins of US Military antivax was a Normalization of Deviance =2= that preceded the War of the American Revolution until disinformation trolls recognized it was a crack to drive a wedge into. 6) I was confronted with this as a Pandemic Planner where military personnel I interacted with informed me they would refuse to be vaccinated for H1N1, using the antivax tropes still in use today. I normally did not argue but did point out that we did not vaccinate to protect ourselves, but to prevent us from infecting those who are immune compromised in disaster areas.

II. Solutions and Interactions

Contents          Glossary

Keywords: Systems, Geospheres, Biospheres, Anthropospheres, Wicked Problems, Cascades, Unintended Consequences, Synergy, Acceleration, Evolution, Deceleration, One Health, Dunning-Kruger, Liminal, Worldview

Tags: Spacetime, Wholism, Pale Blue Dot, Self Importance, Learning, Longue Duree, Exponential Growth, Tipping Points, Open and Closed Systems, Origin(s) of Life and Culture, Malthusianism

Excerpt: Exploring the general purpose of plans and what planning achieves in the finding of solutions from problems related to the interactions of the micro and macro life forms and environments.

-1. At the heart of any plan is the intent to be a guide to solving a perceived problem(s). In other words, the way to reach a solution.

            1.1. It makes no difference if the plan addresses a real or imaginary problem. It does not matter what the intent is, honorable or not. The suitability of any plan to achieve its purpose and/or to be implemented means nothing. What is of importance is if the plan is enduring and yet can be reversed and modified if need be. Furthermore it is important that the planned solution(s) minimize the creation of more problems and/or undesirable consequences, that direct resources toward goals =2= that divert from problems that are of crucial and overriding existential consequence.

            -1.2. Planning isn’t a simile for “plan”. Planning is the process of learning. It is rehearsal, practice, preparation, debate, research, testing, feedback, improvement, discarding, refinement, experiment, discovery, adapting, rejection, interacting, etc. Ideally a pandemic plan is for a dynamic open system of constant adjustments, rather than to maintain a static closed system that prevents variation (i.e. is dead).

            -1.3. Implementing and/or developing plans tend to create other plans that either cooperate with the initial plan or compete with it. Of course we are so removed form the initial plans of humanity that we no longer know the original intended consequence, and the first planners had no idea what would be the [results of the causal chains started] =2=. More likely we are still reacting to consequences set into motion at the dawn of humanity & culture, and possibly at the beginning of what we perceive as time and space.

-2. Interactions of complex living systems with complications (wicked problems) are constantly evolving in response to the developments within and among open systems.

            -2.1. Developing and implementation of a plan are themselves an agent of change introduced to a system of systems. Additions and losses of interconnected systems result in systemic shifts and extinction of no longer functional subsystems, or modifications of that subsystem that make it different from the previous form. Transformation happens whether or not the intent was to influence one of more systems or determine the way mutations manifest.

            -2-2. A novelty/ anomaly that originated within a system is usually focused on benefits to that subsystem, though there are subsystems that are intentionally disruptive in the hopes of creating chaotic conditions that can be exploited by that subsystem or will kill a subsystem or replace it. These are known as unintended consequences. Problems resulting from accelerated transformations that are faster than the biosphere can adapt to accumulate into the biosphere, they synergize with other accelerating [exponential growth] biocalamities that eventually crash, tipping into cascades of decelerations.

-3. When trying to solve the problems of constantly evolving systems that are interdependent, complex and complicated it is likely that one or more key facts are not known (or ignored), and the plan will fail, create cascades into other systems or subsystems that lead to a new problem that likewise will need to be solved, or worst case, have the opposite consequences that cause

what is trying to be avoided.

            -3.1. The interactions of the constantly changing and movement of the Geospheres/ Matter – atmos, lithic, hydro – & Energy spheres – heating, chilling, radiation, retention, blocking, sound, waves, particles, entropy – & Biospheres – habitats, ecologies, diversity, new species, dying species, selection pressures, biomes.

            -3.2. When considering the interactions of spheres one has entered information spheres of liminal concepts, paradigms and ideas. To individuals and groups of humans this aspect of information is baffling, incomprehensible, ineffable, enigmatic, mysterious, inconceivable, impenetrable, confusing, astonishing, etc. The more distant the information is from a priori worldviews the more likely information will be rejected, no matter its level of veracity. Information that conforms to a weltanschauung will be accepted despite provable evidence.

            -3.3. Trying then to understand these spheres as a whole, the infinite possibilities and combinations, within the heuristic of spacetime, is a quality usually associated with deities, arcane knowledge, supernatural. It is the hubris on the part of some humans to claim that they have such levels of omnipotence.

            -3.4. Speaking of humans. Add the anthroposphere*^3.5, to this perpetual agitation of systems of systems with the biosphere and geospheres. This complication of society/ civilization is added to the warp and weave of the micro*^3.6, macro and meta spheres that all the above listed systems are mere, but not necessarily unimportant, subsystems of.

            -*3.5. The anthroposphere/ technosphere =2= began as subsystems overlapping biology and geology largely involving a single species, of which only one subspecies remains. As this remaining species expanded globally this subsystem became an influence then determinant to other species, geography, weather, habitats and molecules. If it has not become one already, the anthroposphere is accelerating to become a system/ sphere and perhaps a new epoch or period, or the strata that indicates a mass extinction [=2=] or start of a new era or eon.

            -*3.6. Micro life predates the various homo species by around 4 billion years. Not only do microbes outnumber macro life forms by several orders of magnitude, there are micro species that currently live in environments that macro life of the current dominant biosphere cannot survive in. Microbes have billions of years of experience with biological warfare, shaping the planet and adapting to toxic environments. This is probably for the best as macro life needs microbes to survive.

            -3.7. People chosen to be planners are experts and problem solvers, and they will uniformly admit that they still have much to learn. A partial list of human related troubles that have lead to biosphere and geosphere problems are beliefs, social constructs, systems and behaviors – Protection, safety, humor, information, politics, economics, linguistics, emergence, entertainment, recreation, arts, creativity, numinous, exploitation, self, relationships, outliers, anatomies, uncategorized, miscellaneous, death, consequences, social transitions, uncertainty, contradictions, narrative, social reality, technosphere, communication, syndemic, concurrent disasters, longue duree, violence, destruction, war, norms, movement, environment, one health, learning, logistics, responsibility, decision making, methodology, futuring, anthromes, legal, demographics, othering, resistance. Planning to solve these is a conundrum of conflicting solutions with different interpretations of what constitutes a problem that needs to be fixed.

            -3.8. Humans who exhibit Dunning-Kruger behavior are self deluded. Unfortunately, they may also influence others about their omnipotence, thus a complication that influences permutations already in progress.

-4. The heuristic that I like to help comprehend fixing systems is the analogy of the relatively simple and closed systems of a non operational car, a computer that does respond to inputs as programed, a relationship that goes wrong. People largely do not understand these systems when these are fully functional and predictable in terms of cause and effect.

            -4.1. However, when operations, inputs, relations become broken in the process of solution finding a solution learning takes place. Identifying and developing a fix to the broken system one learns about one of the subsystems and just possibly the interactions between subsystems.

            -4.2. This is in a nutshell what is happening to the current biosphere of Earth. It is becoming dysfunctional and unbalanced in its interactions with biodiversity, matter, energy and humanity. This leads to disease and environment syndemics of not just the human subsystems but the whole biosphere.

            -4.3. In learning to fix these systems humanity is learning about those systems and may eventually actually have a functional understanding of the interactions of the spheres outside the social one, and may even gain a comprehension of the social sphere and its interactions with other systems.

            -4.4. The biosphere we are a subsystem of is located on one of few small and minor planets that orbit the statistically average star of Sol. The Solar system has only been in existence as a distinguishable entity for a relatively short time, about one third of the age of the known cosmos.

            -4.5. Though of great importance to the thin film of the biosphere on Earth, especially those parts that are sentient, in the context of the expanding multiverse it is only noticeable if one expends a great deal of detailed effort searching, probably for an inconceivably long time though unimaginable distances of space. Even so, self importance and desire to be noticed drives at least one species of Earth’s biosphere toward planning for a future in which it will still exist. No matter how broken the systems humans depend on that are succumbing to health and environmental hazards, if humans survive its own behaviors and avoid the biosphere and geospheres existential threats, homo saps are planning to expand beyond the [small pond =2=] that was its antecedents. Hopefully if this diaspora happens it will be with more wisdom than shown to its birthplace.

V.1. Pathfinder.

Contents         Glossary

Keywords: Circadian, Expectant, Proprietary, Trauma, Explosion, Grenade, Missile, Phoneme, Telemetry, Biocide, Targeting, Coma, Holographic, Locum, Rabbit Holes, Rapport, Neural, Hit Points, Nurse, Evidence, Palliative Care

Tags: Nanobots, Melding Mind and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Nursing, Suicide, Time Disruption, Names, Past Influencing Future, Medical Technology, Battles, Bureaucracy, Asian and European Diasporas to the Americas, Cats, Private Militaries, Triage, Dying, Patient Privacy, Patient Right, Patient Care, Fiction, Medical Procedure/ Algorithm, Inter/Intra Stellar, Surreal Conditions, Genocide, Colonization, Language Drift, Environmental Warfare, Medical Terminology, Military Terminology, Ghosts, Death, Othering, Zipf’s Law

Excerpt: Fictional story about convergence of past and future biosphere calamities, medicine, ware and technology. This is a idea that I have had since the 1970s and is the start of the writing devices used in the parademic blog. Though short in length this is not a short story, more of a novella that relies on parademic information and chaos to understand. 

Minty was a MINT. MINT is the acronym for Medical Intelligence + Nurse Technicians. MI+NT is the compound bonding of Medical Technology and the Medical Professionals who provide real world patient care from virtual environment and communications platforms. Minty was not a nickname, is was a family name first held by a musician whose stage name was Minty Fresh. No one in the family named their children Fresh. 

Minty was never late, despite the fact that standard time was not in sync with local time. Time differences in some cases leads to chronic circadian syndrome (CCS). More likely to happen for those who live in the local time where they live and the standard time that coordinated all interstellar jobs. Most MINTs were usually already in their tanks studying, socializing, playing or exercising before their shift began to acclimatize to the time switches before their shift. An occupational hazard of MINTs that some spend too much time in MI immersion nanogel tanks at the cost of real life interactions. 

When possible, shifts on standard time are scheduled to be as close as possible to local time, but this is not always possible, especially when medical management is not in the same local time as NTs. There are labor laws but trying to understand the legalities for work scheduling, overtime pay, holidays, duration, CCS, pay deductions and all the other complications is more confusing than working and living in two time systems simultaneously. 

The [handshake] between [MI○NT] included the duty board assignments. Minty, as usual for his grade and skill level, was assigned six coma patients. During the initial nursing round Minty reviewed the case notes on the assigned patients. 

            Four of the patients were continuing patients on resurrection protocols. The others were new intakes. 

            Three of the patients were [expectant], with a low probability of surviving the shift. One of the new intakes was a neural reconstruction coma. That patient had a Classified Care Plan# (ClasCP).  

Minty opened the ClasCP link. MI was on voice mode asking for Minty’s NT access code. That was buracrap as MI had already handshaked Minty. Minty verbally answered the request. Access was delayed by having to receive and respond with a secure one time verification. This additional unnecessary hurdle made this ClasCP coma patient interesting. Minty was then required to acknowledge having read the Sensitive Patient Agreement# (SPA) in the past 6 months standard.

             SPA is a type of NDA acknowledging instruction completion in the handling and protection of classified material before becoming an active Medical Professional. Like the Patient Privacy Agreement (CPA) the SPA was an annual (standard) mandatory Continued Medical Education (CME) requirement. This was not required by law and the first time Minty had been required to do so for accessing classified materials on a patient. This vegetable was becoming even more interesting and concerning. Mixing law and medicine turned patient care into a confusing minefield. 

Disappointingly the classified medical instructions were brief:

TOP SECRET/ PROPRIETARY AUTHORIZED AND CONFIRMED#.

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OF GRAVE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE TO RECOVER MEMORY OF WHAT HAPPENED PRIOR & LEADING TO BEING KILLED. CONFIRMED#.

            EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES TO RESOLVE COGNITIVE FUNCTION & AMNESIA. AUTHORIZED & CONFIRMED.

            POWER OF ATTORNEY AGENT ACKNOWLEDGES EXPECTANT STATUS AND THAT PRIORITY TO RECOVER AND RECORD MEMORY PRIOR TO BEING KILLED WILL LIKELY HASTEN DEATH. AUTHORIZED & CONFIRMED.

            RESUSCITATION UNTIL MINT DETERMINATION THAT RESUSCITATION WILL NO LONGER BE POSSIBLE TO RECOVER MEMORY PRIOR TO BEING KILLED. AUTHORIZED & CONFIRMED.

            THERE ARE NO ACTIVE DO NOT ATTEMPT RESUSCITATION (DNAR) OR DO NOT RESUSCITATE (DNR). CONFIRMED.

            PRIVACY RESTRICTIONS WAIVED. MINT CAN INQUIRE INTO PERSONAL INFORMATION TO MAKE RECORD, BUT NOT PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. CONFIRMED.

            PATIENT# WAS AN ECOTARG ON A PATHFINDER MISSION WHEN KILLED WITHIN BLAST ZONE OF AN EXPLOSION. CONFIRMED. 

It took time to process the conflicting implications of the medical order.

            Minty reviewed reviving cognition of a comatose patient while delaying death. There were several safety and legal warnings for the NT in the algorithm. Minty coded in the care plan for the shift. MI did not object to the conflicts of the care plan with patient rights law and medical ethics. That eased Minty’s concern about liability and malpractice.

            Military personnel waived resuscitation, authorizing power of attorney to command agent decision on resuscitation. 016472acff3c6351daf8 was likely a soldier subjected to total body disruption during a combat operation. 

            There was negative evidence of no current media report of any intrastellar battle, Minty working for a private hospital network that served many corporate clients and the word “proprietary” pointed to 016472acff3c6351daf8 being a contract soldier rather than a government one. 

 

            Minty checked the rotation assignment board. There were a large number of new patients including comas, at the same time as 016472acff3c6351daf8. It was likely there had been a battle on a planet with no recording of the event.

            The nature of the killing incident was critical information. This meant that it was likely the battle had been a defeat from the private military’s perspective.

            If 016472acff3c6351daf8 became sufficiently cognizant and the requested record of reconstructed memory was successful this could be a ticket for more paid training for a promotion with a pay raise. 

            Given the prognosis of 016472acff3c6351daf8, it was improbable that sentient cognition would be achieved before death, and with it a chance to move up in rank and pay.

Minty synced deeper with MI. MI●NT checked the initial @ line of 016472acff3c6351daf8 Patient Bed Record (PBR). Not surprisingly it was an unfamiliar designation with the initial %10%nd, code for shipboard %28&#10010 medical intensive care bay. This increased the chances this was a private corporation military operation, probably the colonization of a contested M Planet. Likely a secret and covert siege in a star system, one that was not against another private or government military but indigenous sentient fauna. Killing was probably result from ship or planetary combat. 

Minty reviewed and initialed off on 016472acff3c6351daf8 bed record: 

            TRAUMATIC CRUSHING, TRAUMATIC AMPUTATIONS, THERMAL DESTRUCTION.

            95 PERCENT CADAVER RECOVERED, 52 PERCENT REVIABLE.

            PROGNOSES HOPELESS FOR FULL RECOVERY FROM COMA AND PHYSICAL INJURIES.

            EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES FOR NEURAL RESOLUTION, RESUSCITATION, SUSTAINMENT ONLY. AUTHORIZED AND CONFIRMED. 

After reading the bed record Minty was glad that MI had not opened direct viewing screen of 016472acff3c6351daf8. Though MI provided more accurate data, seeing a patient’s facial and body movement gave Minty a better sense of patient condition. In this case daf8 was probably just body parts floating in nanogel. With neural sustainment the MI was likely debriding dead and excess tissue with the nanobots. This would leave only a [neural lymphatic system] with a [holographic brain] and spinal cord as locum for what was destroyed. Full body locum are only used with patients that would be viewed by non medical personnel (relatives/ self serving important visitors/ media/ officials) and the patient was expected to fully recover, or functionally resolve with chronic disfigurement, sequala and/or handicaps.

***

After a subjective forever, four hours standard, of routine monitoring and making adjustments to treatment, there was a MIracle. The mysterious daf8 was entering early Glasgow neural resolution. MI continued sustainment and prepared for confusion stage, while starting the algorithm.  

Minty made a mental note to administer a selfkick later. Besides having to scramble to prepare for the trance of full MI and daf8 connection, it would have made the shift less boring had time had been spent to research further about, coma and neural revival, NT safety, and emergency procedures when connected to a coma patient while deferring of death.  

Minty realized that in addition this was a rare procedure and there had been a chance to legitimately use patient needs to get CME credits on company time. Now there was no time to submit the request for permission. Another buracrap as one could not apply for permission afterwards and one rarely realized before that one was going to apply a rare procedure that could be an educational experience. But if Minty did well a bump in pay would compensate for company deductions and the lost of CME.

Taking a chance that system would authorize, Minty requested moving the other assigned patients to other MINTs to provide single focus on daf8. Request was granted with confirmation. Interesting, apparently daf8 memory was so critical that a sole MINT was granted, and chances of survival so low that there was a chance the NT would continue to provide care beyond the assigned shift. Minty quickly began research of daf8 history while monitoring MI’s progress from early recovery to confusion while balancing cognitive recovery speed with death delay. 

PBR: Patient’s name, military rank, languages, residences, education, current relationships were quickly reviewed but not memorized. Minty only wanted to be able to quickly locate the data. Minty spent prep time reviewing recovered neural patient communication and rapport building, sentient cognitive recording and palliative care. Then did research on unfamiliar terms, and a general summary request to alert MI to provide pertinent information w/o prompting. 

SEARCH: ECOTARG, PATHFINDER, PATHFINDER MISSION. //GENERAL SUMMARY//.

            ECOTARG: TOP SECRET: MILITARY: ECOLOGICAL TARGETING. LAW. ENVIRONMENTAL WARFARE. HISTORICAL: SCORCHED EARTH.

            PATHFINDER: HISTORICAL: 1) THE FIRST TO SURVEY AND MARK A TRAIL TO UNKNOWN LOCATION. 2) SECRET: MILITARY: COVERT INSERTION TO PREPARE LANDING ZONES. 3) TOP SECRET: MILITARY: CLOSE TARGET LOCATION OBSERVER FOR PRECISION ORBITING PLATFORM WEAPON SYSTEMS.

            PATHFINDER MISSION: TOP SECRET: MILITARY: EMBEDDING OF SENSORY TRANSMITTER WITH SHERPA OPERATOR IN DANGER CLOSE LOCATION.  

SHERPA, SHERPA OPERATOR, DANGER CLOSE.

            SHERPA: HISTORICAL. PHENOTYPE ADAPTED TO HIGH ALTITUDE GROUND TRAVEL RENOWNED FOR MOUNTAINEERING SKILLS AND HEAVY LOAD CARRY.

            SHERPA OPERATOR. SECRET. MILITARY, INDIVIDUAL CARRYING HEAVY LOAD AND/OR CLASSIFIED EQUIPMENT. BACKPACKER, WITHOUT MECHANICAL AUGMENTATION. MISSION CRITICAL, HIGH RISK, LOW SURVIVAL

            DANGER CLOSE: MILITARY: 1) ANY RISKY ACTIVITY REQUIRING CLOSE PROXIMITY TO HAZARDS, THREATS, TARGETS. 2) COMMUNICATION BREVITY CODE THAT TRANSMITTING OBSERVER IS NEAR WHERE WEAPON SYSTEM IS DIRECTED. 3) MILITARY: WITHIN THE RADIUS OF THE BLAST AND/OR SPLATTER ZONE. 

There must be a hacker in the MINT system. An anonymous Chat Box appeared.

CHAT: TOP SECRET: DAF8 WAS NOT IN A DANGER CLOSE SPLATTER ZONE WHEN EXPLOSION OCCURRED. 

A lurker or a ghost, apparently with a connection to MI●Minty A lurker could be a higher ranking MINT, one who might take over if his competence was not sufficient, or another agency that was rumored to spy to have anonymous access. If it was a [ghost] was the MI system, the total of electronic processing, or the patient’s employer spyware. It didn’t change patient care. Everything was recorded and the recording had multiple layers and types of protection. Minty did not need to and should not report. To do so was a violation of the SPA and could lead to dismissal and incarceration.

***

The shift continued long after Minty would have been replaced by next shift MINT. As the patient emerged from confusion the nanogel of the MINT Tank sustained Minty now in full nanogel sync of MI●Minty○Moribund daf8. 

Minty had done a simulation seance of BCI during NT schooling, but this was the first real time experience of thinning the veil with a killed patient. It was nothing like the haunting simulation. More like a confusing dream that one is not sure is a nightmare. It was surreal to experience memory reconstruction from fragments when one was not sure what was self. 

MI initiated one of the shared languages of Minty●daf8. A mix of confusing simulacrums. Garbled soft phonemes/ morphemes. Minty’s comprehending visual and auditory cortex associated centers synced with the neural activity recorders. Eventually MI teased out teased out a close agreement of meaning for Minty●daf8. 

CHAT: ASK QUESTIONS. 

Minty had prepared interrogatives to learn about the incident but started with rapport building as that would ease neural connection. “Captain Chunukhu, are you awake”. No answer. Just as well. Captain was incorrect, the patient held the equivalent Navy grade of Lieutenant. Chunukhu was not the Lieutenant’s name. MI provided a search. 

SEARCH: CHUNUKHU LINGUISTICS, 19^TH CENTURY, MIDDLE NORTH AMERICAN, EARTH. INDIGENOUS DECENDENTS OF NORTH EAST ASIAN HOMO SAPIENS TO AMERICAS AT START OF HOLOCENE. ARIKARA. GHOST. SCALPED MEN. NATIVE SCOUTS WITH 7TH CAVALRY ON 18750625 STANDARD, AT 45°34 13"N 107°25 39"W.  

CHAT: AVOID RABBIT HOLES. FOCUS ON WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO RECOVER  MEMORY LEADING TO EXPLOSION. MI IS TRANSLITERATING VISUAL AND AUDITORY CORTEX SO YOU AND PATIENT UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER. 

As an NT Minty already knew about transliteration and disagreed about tangents. There were several terms Minty did not recognize that could give insights to improve the interface.

A cacophony of kinetic weapons, whoops, screams, flicker of the maelstrom of a [historical human] MRP battle [Map], smoke, rectangles, wavy line and acute triangles.

Minty recognized the warning implied by “Scalped”, “Ghost” and “Need to Know”. Even so, Minty coded MI to only allow anonymous chat if it was relevant to NT providing patient care or to avoid legal trouble.

Waiting until MI indicated higher waking state Minty asked again.

“What”..... Dropping back to semi consciousness..... Waking..... Fading out..... Low level awareness. Minty asked again. 

“Wha..... Where”. Nurses are trained to use white lies to calm terminal patients. “You are onboard in a [medical recovery tank]”. Long pause “I can’t see, I can’t feel the nanogel”. Being in a tank Minty felt the same lack of sensation. “Your eyes have been injured. You’ve been unconscious in the tank for a long time recovering. Likely this is temporary sensory deprivation”.

MI stimulated neuron sense receptors. “I’m feeling warmth”. “That’s good” responded Minty. 

PHONEMES: Full MI●NT●daf8 neural integration. Simulacrums set to single image capture. Phonemes set to monotone to sharpen comprehensible morphemes. Sensations set for imagined intense skin stimulation.

PHONEMES: Do you remember where you are. Only the first three morphemes sounded like Minty. 

[SIMULACRUMS]:

PHONEMES: I’m in a medbay recovery gel tank. Very good. Do you feel any pain. No, the nanobots have numbed me, just a warm water sensory deprivation sensation. When I move there is still no feeling. MI is probably taking it slow on sensory. I must be really fucked. Do you remember what happened. Just working at my station, arguing against a biocide target with the Target Controller. (Tarcon) No, that is (silence). I was on ground, sky above, sky on horizon.

CHAT: TOP SECRET: DROP THIS LINE OF QUESTIONING. 

PHONEMES: daf8 muted. Best practice algorithm is to have a waking coma recall a time, activity and place. It is normal for recall to be before traumatic injury. Normally patient progressively recall more until their last memory. Will avoid specific questions.

CHAT: PROCEED. BE CAREFUL.

PHONEMES: I was in the PIT#. Tarcon was wrong and authorized the biological target package. I filed a complaint. Then a missile appeared on my screen and hit. I felt the pressure wave and heat.

SENSATIONS: Weak pressure and heat.

CHAT: THAT IS COMPLETELY WR...

PHONEMES: Back off. This is my job. Stop interfering. ...ONG. Increasing neural distress. 

PHONEMES: Why not rest and I will check with you later. Consciousness slips. Protocols to delay pre active dying failing. Palliative care initiated.

Hit Point dashboard appears. All numbers low and trending down. Waiting a standard minute and a beat, subjective hours, then simulated the patient awake with a dose of amps.

PHONEMES: Feeling better. How long was I asleep. Not sure. You were still out when I went off shift. I’ve been back on for a couple of hours. Nursing notes says you woke a couple of times. Don’t remember waking up. Sorry, who are you again. No problem, I actually did not have the chance to tell you I’m your day nurse, just call me Minty. Like Minty Fresh. You must be a classical music buff; few people know that name. Bet you got teased about your name. Not really, where I’m from nobody knew musical history. Too bad for them. I got teased about my name lots when I was a kid.

[SIMULACRUMS]: 

[SIMULACRUMS]:

Hit Points: Normal sleep, pre active death.

 Waited subjective five minutes and stimulated awake.

PHONEMES: Wow, you went back to sleep fast yesterday. Must have needed that. Feel great. I haven’t eaten but I’m not hungry. Not to worry. The tank is keeping you hydrated and fed. You don’t want oral intake right now because it will come out the other end, not nice to do in a tank. Gross. Year but better than bedpans.

PHONEMES: I remember missiles. Wait, PIT does not have sensors for anything above the atmosphere, that’s SDS#. We are all about telemetry and planetary sensing. Don’t know about that, they don’t tell us how you spook types end up in here. Patient becoming drowsy. Maybe I was ground side. Active dying. Hit Points tending down. Maybe. Was the operation already over. I don’t think so. My mission failed.

[SIMULACRUMS]:

PHONEMES: Did your ship crash. No I was fast landed. Carried a targeting telemetry pack on my back. Must have got Tarcon on my case. Some bullshit story that an Ecotarg was needed to pathfind for the final targets. Type of mission where you get a post humorous medal. Maybe you were in the splatter zone of a missile. I don’t think so.

PHONEMES: Neuron stress. Mild sedating. Bastard sent me down for revenge. Fooled the asshole, survived. Were you in a battle and got unlucky after it ended, the last shot. No, the weapon platforms used the pathfinder data to take out remaining defense systems. Occupation force deorbiting. No counter attacks, pause in targeting from the backpack. I recognized where I was. Not used to seeing it from ground level. This was the location we had targeted trajectories for a surreptitious biocide barrage. When I finished verification, I informed Tarcon this attack was not necessary. It was an agricultural infrastructure and already in bad shape from previous splattering. Needed more life support than it had available and did not have excess life support to give. There were no offensive or defensive capabilities that PIT could locate, and the region was requiring the diversion of increasingly scarce planet resources to support. Tarcon was intent on genocide and as punishment for questioning the decision I was the sacrificial Sherpa. 

[SIMULACRUMS]:

PHONEMES: I switched off the telemetry while PIT and Pathfinder were calibrating for the next sweep. Next time interrogated by the platforms the pathfinder would signal a false negative

PHONEMES: Looked like home, the Crows in Montana. There had been toxic mining there long before I was born. The companies were forced to do restoration so they brought in greasy grass to suck up the waste. The bacteria of greasy grass eats toxins. Too bad it also covers land real fast, driving out other plants. There was a plan to remove the greasy grass, but buracrap screwed up preparation and equipment to do so. Without plants the birds and animals left or died. In the heat and drought of summer it dries and the now flammable toxins cover the land.

[SIMULACRUMS]:

PHONEMES: There was no missile. I was just wandering around. Came across a native child. I think it was a female but not sure. She was dead lying on dark stalks. That was the vector for the flora/ fungicide agents I had objected too.

[SIMULACRUMS]:

PHONEMES: On the third deorbit pass of the landers railguns opened up from the remaining hidden and mobile emplacements. Tarcon assumed not receiving target telemetry meant no resistance. Probably hoped I was dead and did not contact me or pathfinder to verify. Not all the landers were destroyed. They were still coming but weapon platforms could not provide protective fire with the landers coming in, and they could not get accurate electromagnetic telemetry from pathfinder. I lifted my weapon and fired a grenade set to heavy shrapnel blast hoping that would take out one more.

[SIMULACRUMS]:

PHONEMES: It flew high but not as high as the landers. It fell back and landed near me. Active Dying, delay failing. Watched it and then it went boom.

[SIMULACRUMS]:

PHONEMES: How did the cat commit suicide. It leapt in front of 9 cars as each flashed by.

[SIMULACRUMS]

SENSATIONS: Draining away from white in a whirlpool toward black. 

[SIMULACRUMS]:

SENSATIONS: Pain. Cold. Sensory Deprivation.

[SIMULACRUMS]:

Flatline recorded as time of death standard.

PHONEMES: His mouth was stuffed with grass.

[SIMULACRUMS]:

MI severs 016472acff3c6351daf8∩NT connections and initiates emergency coma of NT while sucking away the nanogel. Mobilizing the NT’s body locomotion to move it to the nearby bedroom. Laid Minty down and adjusted to a comfortable supine. Completed MI∩NT separation. Light monitored sleep in recovery mode. Scheduled time off until MI released back to duty. Made an assessment for needed training to qualify for promotion. Initiates investigation of colonization of V91881451139d24a2d58.

I: Problems and Situations

Contents Glossary 

Keywords: 1 Problems, Mission; B Milestones; C Syndemics, Pollution; 1.1 Marketing, Propaganda; A Selective Pressure; B Causal Chains; 1.2 End State; C National Guard; 1.3 Legal Agreement, Project Management plan; A 2009H1N1, Red Flag; B Zoodemics; 2 Situations, A Acceleration, Biodiversity; B Dissimilitude; C Transportation, Communications Population Densities, Logarithmic, Habitats, Pollution, Wildfire, Soil Loss, Zoonotic, Temperature; 2.1 Snapshot; A Data Collection; 2.2 Interpretation, Empirical; B Magical Thinking, Punishment, Sin, Moral Panics, Media; 2.3. Gaps, Assumptions, Catastrophic, Global, Overwhelm; 2.4 Humanitarian Aid; B Military Support, Uncertainty, Conspiracy Theories, Martial Law, Apocalypse; 2.5 Operational Environment (OE); A Othering, Active, Passive; B Civil Considerations, Megaregions; 2.6 Region E; A Natural Resources, Critical Resources; C Anthropocentric; 3 Hindering

Tags: Problem Context, Problem Description, Complex, Complicate; Hazardous Environment, Handover to Civil Authority, Avoiding Normalization, National Guard, Civil Control of the Military, Unintended Consequences, State of Pandemic Planning, Contemporary Conditions, Supernatural Beliefs, Perceptions of the Military, Conditions of Uncertainty, Planning Road Blocks

Excerpt. Introduction to the first concurrent steps of planning for accelerated biocalamities.

-1. Any worthwhile planner/ analyst will tell you that the first step in planning is to identify the problem(s). When creating a documented plan, it is essential to state what is the problem(s) to be solved and the situation(s) that is the context of the problem and presumably its eventual solution. In the military this is called the mission.

                    -A. Problems, goal, purpose, corrections can be a: Social ill/ flaw; Disaster (including war) or a series/ combination of disasters; Phenomena that cannot be explained by known facts; Flowchart to accomplish; Task to be performed; Repair; Achieving a desired result; Marketing, propaganda or other exploitation to make something seem to be a problem while offering a solution [Trouble in River City].

                    -B. An effective planner/ planning team will normally refine and restate the problem(s) into more manageable tasks that are solvable, provides a logical sequence for milestones =2= and assure the solution will solve the problem, while anticipating and minimizing negative consequences from the solution.

                    -C. Problems rarely occur in isolation but tend to be connected by cause and/or effect to other problems. Respiratory disease outbreaks tend to be syndemics, when flu, colds, covid, RSV tend to be concurrent with weather conditions and times when people gather in larger groups. These pathogens are aggravated by air pollution which is largely from the waste products of vehicles using fossil fuels, manufacturing/ industry, agriculture and actions that spew particulate matter into the air and water. Finding a solution is usually a band aid fix because a complete solution would involve social solutions to the living conditions of how people make their livelihood, acquire material goods, where they work and live and feed themselves.

-1.1. [Identifying the correct]/ real problem(s) involves describing it so it is widely understood and making it clear why it is an issue would seem to be obvious and easy. This however is only for the cases of the most simple and briefest of situations/ incidents, especially for those that are relatively separate from other problems by time and space. If frequently repeat these have practiced and prepared emergency responses. This may mean that there is a root problem not being addressed, ones that are likely relatively cheap to resolve compared to the costs over time. Over time the underlying problem can fester and become so large that when if finally becomes apparent it is very expensive in terms of lives, money, resources and costs of recovery.

                    -A. In the case of an infectious disease pandemic, defining the cause of the problems are neither obvious nor simple to solve. There are layers of complex interactions of systems and complications that make the situation uncertain, ever changing and with economic/ social/ political implications. These are one of the reasons why most pandemic plans will eventually fail and/or not be applicable when (not if) a pandemic occurs. When the seminal reasons are not addressed, then the various social, environmental and biological pathogens (Risks/ Threats/ Hazards/ Vulnerabilities) continue to evolve with the selective pressures to include detrimental solutions and related unsolved problems.

                    -B. In pandemic and/or hazardous environmental conditions the threat tends to be invisible to the naked eye, appearing to be normal mundane conditions. Risk and vulnerabilities to the threat(s) are likely to be the same daily conditions and activities that people have performed in the past without apparent (immediate) [=2= =3=] harm, while the connection to ill health is unclear and obfuscated by long causal chains.

-1.2. Military plans include an end state =2=. The end state are the conditions created or a date that marks the end of the operation. The military support is withdrawn and civil agencies can fully take over.

                    -A The end state is often neglected in pandemic planning, specifically an evaluation that the goal has been achieved. Withdrawal too soon means the reigniting of a pandemic or only delaying it while it is temporarily dormant (between waves). Being perceived as waiting too long to withdraw the military support solutions can cause negative social reactions. Withdrawals can be temporary as assets are redirected to more dire problems, or a permanent stand down. Ideally, solutions are designed so that if the solution has consequences that are worse than the disease it can be reversed. This means that the temporary military support for containment and control shouldn’t become a permanent condition.

                    -B. It would be helpful if the written plan is signed by appropriate authorities as a contract. This contract plan includes: 1) Reimbursement – to include in kind or other equivalent substitutes of mutual aid and other support – for services and expendable supplies, or state if reimbursement is waived/ can be delayed. 2) Prior agreements about what to do with damaged DoD equipment and hurt personnel, and possible indemnity if military support causes harm. It is advisable to have procedures to change the end state, and a list of end states that military support will not be expected to perform – permanent isolation/ incarceration of those infected, permanent quarantines, and total eradication of a pathogen are examples.

                    -C. In the US, state National Guards are usually the military support of choice to provide support to disasters that overwhelm local resources. Sometimes, especially when there is a national disaster declared, funding is provided by the Federal government. Currently the question of who is in charge of the military support is a contentious issue when both NG and Federal forces, to include the Federal Reserve, are involved. The curator of Parademic recommends that in the case of non combat operations within the US and its territories that the NG be the command, while preserving the principle of civil control of the military.

-1.3. My first two weeks on the pandemic planner contract making the first assessment of the mission and situation were intense and dismaying. I explored the initial questions that any competent planner will answer before starting the task of developing the plan. Normally these questions are answered in the contract or job description. These are both a type of plan but done in the form of a legal agreement and/or project management plan.

                    -A. In the case of the 2009H1N1 Pandemic that I contracted for, very few key questions were answered by the contract, nor were answers found when reviewing references and discussing with others involved in the project. Conflicting answers, goals and vagueness of essential details is a Red Flag for a contractor to not accept the job.

                    -B. There are indicators that little to no progress in improvement of pandemic planning for the non medical aspects of disease and environmental sydemics have been accomplished since 2009. In fact there appears to be continuation of biological and social processes that started long before and contributed to 2009H1N1 and later disease outbreaks. Current pandemics are not confined to regions but are symptoms of global and worldwide ills that are the root causes. Moreover zoodemics are now more likely to jump to humans and/or threaten human livelihoods and resources, as well as domesticated species of plants and animals that we depend on.

-2. The Situation: The setting, context, milieu, undercurrents, social scene, weather, climate, terrain (urban and geographic), can all change the nature of the biosphere problems that solutions are being developed for. Even being on the other (wrong) side of a river, railroad track, street can makes the same biothreat/ risk take on a different form of biocrisis =2=.

                    -A. Calamitous changes to the biosphere =2= is normal =2=. What is abnormal is that currently there are multiple and accelerating curves of biosphere change with more biodiversity loss over a relatively shorter time and covering larger areas.

                    -B. Problem dissimilitudes change over time, in part by how a biocalamity evolves as it propagates, varies and mutates. This complex situation is complicated by data shortfalls and statistical challenges of interpretation. For a simple example, is it possible to truthfully show a decline in species going extinct over time for the simple reason there are fewer species available to die out.

                    -C. The world itself has changed considerably from when modern medicine and public health began to prevent disease outbreaks that were the normal and constant conditions of the past. 1) Today’s transportation can spread a pathogen worldwide within 24 hours. In the past it could take decades and centuries for infections, vectors and invasive species to move from one region to the next. 2) Communications make it possible to share valid information with others developing treatments and cures very fast, while concurrently misinformation can influence irrational behaviors even faster. 3) Human population densities [have increased] logarithmically for the past 200 years and are projected to continue increasing despite decreasing birth rates. Larger human population mean that more habitats are being crashed into increasing pollution, wildfire, biodiversity and soil loss. 4) As human populations spread there are increased chances for zoonotic spillover, while higher temperatures from human activities increase humidity, precipitation, bomb cyclones, hurricanes, floods, drought and ice melt. All of these facilitate microbes, vectors and invasive species.

-2.1. Written plans provide a snapshot description and single perspective. Situation statements are based on remote time and/or distance information, more like a news current event than the progression leading to the event. In addition, situation paragraphs are likely based on limited/ biased reports, opinions and dated references. Usually a military plan will have an Intelligence annex that provide far more information about a current situation, but I have more than once encountered bosses who threaten to fire people for reading this annex. The reasoning behind this is unknown.

                    -A. In a biocalamity data collection of the current situation is critical, though in a rapidly changing situation information is probably changing faster than can be analyzed and reported in real time, much less provide a useful heuristic model for developing plans.

                    -B. Added to this is the complication that some authorities, organizations and jurisdictions are adverse to data that does not support the narrative they are advocating, such as claims that their plan is succeeding, while disregarding evidence that it is failing. When is becomes impossible to ignore a plan has failed the default is then to divert blame to others.

-2.2. The situation is an interpretation of what is perceived. This interpretation is influenced by biases, beliefs, historical and personal experience, politics and previous behaviors that were empirically “successful” before.

                    -A. The study of human behavior in disasters is a new subject of study =2=. The behavior of humans in the context of biocalamity is even newer and reliable data is more limited. We can’t accurately predict how people will behave in a pandemic, making non medical consequences unpredictable.

                    -B. Frankly, people are still mostly magical in their thinking when considering the whole spectrum of biological processes. This is illustrated with people believing the disease is a supernatural punishment =2=, for sins. This makes moral panics more likely when disease outbreaks happen. How moral panics will manifest and for how long it will continue or become dormant is unknown until after the fact. Media reports of primitive superstitions of people in non industrial countries during disease outbreaks reflect the prejudice of not examining themselves because modern nations exhibit the same behaviors, though in different forms.

-2.3. Two other topics often left out of plan documents are gaps and assumptions. When I was including these in a catastrophic plan =2= for FEMA the manager of that contract informed me that there was no such thing as gaps and assumptions. As implied by the definition of catastrophic event (biocalamity) it is global, will overwhelm all resources available, and a priori assumptions based on emergencies, disasters and opinions will manifest as being totally unprepared for mitigation and the consequences that make recovery a moot issue.

                    -A. Gaps refer to insufficient, outdated and unavailability of capabilities. This includes knowledge, personnel, equipment, supplies, transportation, communications, plans. An additional complication is the attrition of personnel who have the expertise for public health disasters become infected themselves while providing medical help. 1) During the course of the pandemic there will be a depletion of resources (shortages) and likely degradation of means to replace. 2) 24/7 operations requiring constant shifting of capabilities are stressful and likewise degrade equipment, planning and decision making. 3) The basic mission of the military is to get what is needed to where it is needed by the time it is needed and in a form that can be used. 4) It has to be accepted that even the whole of society (including military) cannot meet all the needs of a biocalamity that has accelerated to the point of being catastrophic.

                    -B. Assumptions include: Hubris of expertise =2=, untested opinions accepted as fact, worldviews and beliefs that have avoided real world consequences, thinking that because something worked in the past it will work in the future and group think that influences interpretation and gives a false sense of being protected from harm. 1) Changing assumptions usually require a full paradigm shift which are typically resisted and can take generations. 2) It is recommended that instead or attacking assumptions that are wrong and getting bogged down in getting people to see reality, focus on understanding in what way are peoples beliefs and then make nudges to behavior that still supports their worldviews without threatening their identity and concepts they have a vested interest in maintaining.

                    -C. Being aware of gaps, assumptions and what lead to the situation are readily initial indicators that the plan does not apply to the situation. Knowing these give a clue about a plan’s flaws and potential problems before damage is done by misdirected and erroneous efforts.

-2.4. Believe it or not there and people, agencies and communities that do not like the US military and may be fearful when the military is present. Others mistrust the intentions of government and are suspicious of people in uniform who are trying to help. The mere arrival of military personnel during a pandemic for the purpose of providing humanitarian aid is an additional change to what is already an abnormal situation.

                    -A. This is further complicated by what tasks the DoD is performing. 1) Recovery and disposition of bodies can be problematic. 2) Providing security for distribution points of prophylactics, treatment and facilities can raise anxiety or make people feel safer. 3) Transportation of supplies and medical personnel to one area but not another may raise concerns about unequal access or certain groups getting better treatment than others. 4) People don’t understand that National Guard can do things that Federal Forces cannot, but uniforms are seen as being the same and blaming one will blame all.

                    -B. It is likely that when military support is given a more public role the overall situation is catastrophic with shortages, restrictions to movement, violent resistence and physical attacks, severe illness and deaths. 1) All of this will be occurring in a social milieu of uncertainty, unpredictability, disruption, conflicting information and possible disinformation, fear mongering, magical behaviors, exploitation for personal or ideological gain. 2) Add to this complexity the complications of surreality, stress, increased circulation of conspiracy theories adapted to current conditions, individual and mass grief (not always about death but loss of status, power, jobs, relationships), temporal distortion and doomsday phobias. 3) A full commitment of military capabilities is likely to coincide with the declaration of martial law =2=. 4) Perversely some people will view all of these negative consequences favorably as they want to hasten the apocalypse.

-2.5. Borrowing the concept of Operational Environment (OE) from military support for NEO. For domestic non combat military operations the OE can be classified as friendly/ permissive, unfriendly/ hostile/ contested, uncertain/ chaotic and neutral/ unknown.

                    -A. An OEs can change at anytime within a few minutes. 1) Hostile attitudes can be swayed by soldiers providing a secure place to get supplies, assuring people can get home safely with those supplies, or the soldiers are delivering needed supplies from hostile to guardedly neutral. 2) An exaggeration of a “massacre” could change a welcoming place into an unfriendly one. It does not matter if it is a rumor, the wounding of a single thief, or a violent attack on a military secure area is repealed with force and then misrepresented. 3) Insults can also change the OE, for instance refusing gifts of food from a community can be negatively construed. 4) Soldiers with a different skin tone, gender norm, language, creed may provoke us vs them and othering =2=. 5) The uncertain OE is actually the most dangerous because preparing for the unknown is difficult to plan for, especially if there have been ambushes and theft. 6) The OE also needs to indicate if the attitude and behaviors as active or passive and to what degree, with the semantic problem of what is active (people spitting on you) or passive (people spitting on you).

                    -B. Civil Considerations =2= are another aspect of developing the situation of the OE as it evolves. This produces a number of factors that were pertinent of miliary support during a pandemic, each forming a topical plan annex for each area, state, Megaregions =2=.

-2.6. For the multiple situations and OEs of Region E I focused on the various jurisdictions, specifically megaregions of continuous urban landscapes for a number of reasons. My preference would have been to plan by biome of common social and ecological aspects on the assumption that there would be some uniformity to propagation and behavior in context of the biocalamity. However, the data was and still is not available and crossed over anthromes and jurisdictions.

                    -A. This is complicated further in that some areas provided the natural resources (food, water, power, building materials) that were transported to distant regions, many of these critical resources being outside of Region E.

                    -B. Interestingly pandemics are largely viewed as anthropocentric, if humans are not harmed then it is dismissed as a potential threat. Animal/ plant diseases and habitat loss of natural resources (forests, fisheries, domesticated crops, water) are viewed as an inconvenience rather than a threat to human life and livelihoods. Current livelihoods (economics) were usually considered more important than sustaining life for future human generations.

-3. Hindrances are the last problem and situation to creating a plan. As implied in previous paragraphs the biggest obstacle to creating a plan is time available and the organizational culture that is the situational setting of writing the plan. This includes bosses, focus on form rather that content, ignorance of being ignorant, unwillingness to learn new information in a new situation, incompetence, organization that is incompatible to the mission, inflexibility and silo effects, misinterpretation, turf wars, secrecy, having incompatible missions, sticking to policy despite clear evidence it is not working, cookie cutter/ one size fits all solutions. What hinders the successful completion of any job is accentuated with pandemic planning and events

Contents

Contents

           Glossary 

Keywords: 1 Problems, 2 Solutions, 3 Basic Information, 4 Annexes. 5 Stories, 6 Parademic Notes

Tags: 1 Situations, 2 Interactions 3 Questions 4 Contingencies 5 Narratives, 6 Old Essays

Excerpt: List of contents of planning for the human factors and dimensions (Parademics) of biosphere calamities to health and environment.

Prologue

-I. Problems and Situations   

-II. Solutions and Interactions

- III. Basic Information and Questions

-IV. Contingency Annexes

-V. Stories and Narratives

       5.1. Pathfinder

-6. Parademic Notes. 

        210103-2. Collaboration

        201227-1. Mass Extinction

        201220-1. Beyond Biology, Anthromes

         201213-1. Discontinuities of Patterns

        201206-1. Ignoring Cognitive Dissonance, Addiction, 2. Emergent Strategy

        201129-1. Social Contagion, Exacerbate Biocalamities & Spread

        201122-1. Mental Templates, Assemblages, Ideas, Different Forms -2. Satirical Literacy

        201115-1. Endemic, Social Ills -2. Climate Migration

        201108-1. Importance, Critical, Priority -2. Premature Studies

        201101-1. Decisions -4. Types of Chaos

        201025-1. Inductive

        201018-1. Anthromes are the New Biomes

        201011-1. What is Science

        201004-1. Too Slow for Human Perception

        200927-1. Priorities for System Shutdown

        200920-1. Geography, Time, Cause and Effect Gap, Relative Distance, Social/ Physical

        200913-1. Empirical

        200906-1. SPEARS (Supplement, Pooling, Enhance, Augment, Replace, Supersede), Logistics at point of need

        200830-1. Solutions Become Problems

        200823-1. Attitudes that Hinder and Facilitate, Cross Jurisdiction, BioThreats, Parademic Threats, Uncertain, Indicators, Folk Theory, Attitude Grid

        200816-1. Defining Operational Area

        200809-1. Free Press and Science

        200802-1. Chaos

        200726-1. Toleration, Othering, Satisfaction

        200719-1. Cause, Effect, Preempt    

        200712-1. Bunker Mentality, Natural Experiment

        200705-1. ¿Categories?, Impermanence, Impossible to Return to Normal, Grief (SPARTAS), Context Is Meaning, Mad Hatter and Humpty Dumpty

        200628-1. Collection and Analysis; Problem and Not Problem Identification, Understanding, Unsolvable

        200621-1. Define the Problem

        200614-1. Freeze, Flight, Fight (FFF)

        200607-1. BradyOccult

        200531-1. Hand SALUTE DR, Windshield Survey

        200524-1. Dose, Accumulation, Tolerance, Certainty, Probability, Decision Making, Forecasting

        200517-1. Tipping Points, Cascades

        200510-1. Open Source Information, Process, Weaknesses, Rumor Model, Remote Ethnography, Black Box Theory, Black Boxing, GIGO, Loss of Data Source, Education, Camazotz

        200503-1. Bio Crises Concurrent Activities, Medical in Biocrises,  Consequence and Crisis Management, Inapplicable Emergency Management Practices, Parademic Preparation

        200426-1 Inapplicable 4 Phase Model: Planning, Preparation, Response, Recovery, Biocrisis Concurrent Activities

        200419-1. Context, Meaning, Perspective, Humor, 1.1. Assemblage, Mental Template

        200412-1. Public Health is not Medicine, Aviation System, Consequence Management

        200405-1. Satisfaction

        200322-1. Cooperation and Competition

        200315-1. Information Acceptance, Emic Etic, Blind Acceptance, Information Resistance

        200308-1. Analogue, Weaknesses, Mitigation of Skews, Ebola, Connections, Empiricism, Planning

        200301-1. Vulnerability, Hazards, Threats, Risks

        200223-1. Poverty, Othering, Social Disease, Suspicion, Moral and Immoral, TB, Anthropogenic

        200216-1. Explanations, SLAI, Blame, Narratives, Resistance, Moral Panic, Magical Thinking, Coronavirus, Naming

        200202-1. Naming and Labels

        200126-1. Exploitation

        200119-1. Living Information, Infosphere, Disinformation

        200112-1. Satisfaction, Closure, Motivation

        200105-1. ¿Social Media?

        191222-1. Environment + Health ≠ Separate Categories

        191208-1. Tipping Point, Climacteric

        191201-1. Surreal

Prologue

Keywords: Planning, Pandemic, DoD, 2009 Flu Pandemic, Task Switching, Area of Responsibility, Area of Interest, Othering, Cassandra, Wicked Problems, Bleeding Edge, Borders

Tags: Thinking Outside the Box, Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA), Uncertainty, Time Management, Leadership, Body Language, Proxemics, Interagency Operations and Planning, Planning Analysis, Situation Awareness, Human Factors and Dimensions, Anthropogenic Behavior, Social Contagions, Morbid Alarmists and Pollyanna Denialists, Cross Jurisdiction, Novel Uncertainties

Excerpt: Restarting Parademic to focus on planning for the social consequences of biocalamities. This is a move from the previous version of testing concepts, collecting data and analysis to assure that information that is provided is valid and independently verifiable. Though the focus is on DoD Interagency Support for infectious disease and environmental collapse, the skills and concepts can be applied to the needs and perspectives of a wide variety of functions and occupations.

-1. The unscheduled meeting was probably not intended as an ambush =2=. That was not the Colonel’s style. He was a good military leader who followed the maxim of counseling in private. His leadership style tended to foster development of his subordinates, but this did not mean when warranted he avoided calling someone on the carpet. He was frustrated because of the time wasted and politics involved to have the pandemic planning contractor I replaced to be eventually given two week notice to find another job, without penalties for non performance. Insultingly, the Colonel was left out of the selection process of the replacement (me).

-2. Eighteen months into a three year contract the ousted contractor literally left no notes and/or reference documents. This tainted the Colonel’s biases concerning if pandemics were a real threat and if DoD should be involved beyond Force Protection. The lack of previous work products and his own lack of understanding about the social and biological threats and risks of pandemics complicated my workload. I was left with half the time available to learn the novel topical area of supporting critical non medical issues during a pandemic and then create useable planning documents from scratch. This created a situation that my direct boss was a good man whom I liked and respected, but who poorly managed me as a Cassandra =2=.

-3. The Colonel walked into my office area which was at the opposite end of the building from the Defense Coordination Element (DCE) he commanded. At the time I was adding notes for one of several different planning annexes I was creating. The non medical aspects of pandemic planning were and still are novel undeveloped considerations and difficult to articulate wicked problems. Working on this bleeding edge at the end of the 2009H1N1 Flu took intense imaginative concentration. I was in a mesmerized flow state falling into the computer, oblivious he was there until he took the guest chair beside my work area, turned it toward me and sat.

-4. The Colonel was not the type to not insist that I drop what I was doing and give him immediate attention when I asked “give me a moment, sir”. I completed the paragraph I was finishing and then typed in a note to remind myself what concept I wanted to expand on next.

-5. His coming to my remote space rather than scheduling to meet in his office indicated that he believed this was going to be another polite argument. This gave me a moment to plan responses to the likely topics without being obviously rude. Because he had been avoiding difficult discussions with me for months I assumed he wanted to be reassured about his recommendation of ending the Pandemic Planning program early. We civilian pandemic planning contractors were aware that the contracting company and the military leadership of the Pandemic Planning project had been wrangling in secret. It is common with people who are not themselves planners to not realize that planners have to be skilled analysts who question “facts”, with high situation awareness and practiced information sharing =2=.

-6. Sitting cross legged with open relaxed arms =2= =3= I turned my whole body on my [ottoman] =2= to face him. This gave me the transition to task switch to interact with him. I reviewed various possible talking point options for this anticipated debate that was already lost.

-7. The Colonel may have used the walk from his office to mine to give himself time to switch from being the head of DCE for Region IX, to his unwanted additional duty as the senior military representative on the Region E ^*A Interagency Pandemic Committee for the 2009H1N1 Pandemic, and therefore my direct military contract supervisor.

                    -*A. The area responsibility of Pandemic Region E military support for non medical critical needs included FEMA Regions IX & X and compact nations under NORTHCOM and PACOM. In addition I held area interest in neighboring countries and information sharing with the other Pandemic Regions. Each pandemic region was combined with two adjacent FEMA/ HHS Regions I-X. Including areas of interest was important because disease outbreaks and environmental collapse do not respect human borders and would impact on Region E. In addition I had the duty as the substitute and alternate planner if the primary planner for Region A (I & II) died, was incapacitated, or as happened the position was filled with a replacement when the previous person saw the writing on the wall and found a new job. This had the effect that I had several “bosses” with a net outcome of having no boss and having to manage myself.

-8. After my sitting patiently became uncomfortable the Colonel finally said, “I could have written a OPLAN by this time” (WTF in miliary jargon). He was incorrect but given his empirical experience he thought this statement was true. Besides the fact I was not writing a OPLAN but contributing several documents for geographic and local knowledge for multiple CONPLANS. Errors by my direct boss were predictable given that his limited prior experience in planning was based on tasks and areas that were already trained for with data available. DoD did not have any recent pandemic experience nor organizational superstructure and logistics to provide support to the civil sector in a pandemic. In addition the world had changed drastically since the last global pandemic when the DoD was engaged. A further complication was the limited and conflicting information about health threats and environmental risks, while public health had and still has no commonly shared standards in the US, much less globally.

-9. I responded in an amiable voice. “You are completely correct, sir. In the time available I could have written what appears to be all the Region E annexes and situation paragraphs for CONPLAN 3591 that would be ‘a thing of beauty and a joy forever’, and will speciously pass inspection. However, if anyone tried to use what I or anyone else develop they would find the documents are completely useless and best left to gather dust on a shelf” (FUBAR & SNAFU).

-10. As intended the Colonel was briefly stunned by my suicidal admission of failure and openly stating what was widely understood but not publicly shared. I defused the argument because I no longer had time or need to persuade him. Nodding his head indicated confirmation of his a priori decision to recommend end of the contract. He stood, returned the chair to its place and walked out.

-11. I had a sense of relief and disappointment. I had failed but not in the creation of planning texts and images, though undoubtedly the ones I created (53.9 gigabytes, 220,500 pages) were likely never reviewed and are by now lost. I had failed because I had not been successful in nudging anyone who did not already support the program to understand that we all were vulnerable to the threat of health and environmental pandemics (biosphere calamity) to national security. It was very likely that there would be no lessons learned about military and interagency pandemic planning. I decided that I would eventually write what was learned, after I confirmed my observations and had learned enough. This took far longer than I had guessed at the time.

-12. Returning to the work in progress annex on the human factor =2= indicators to watch for when estimating the threats and risks of an operational environment faced by the military to control and mitigate pandemic consequences. I reread the paragraph making a couple of corrections and briefly explained uncooperative, neutral, friendly. The mnemonic I left, ‘Pol(ticised) T(rue) Be(livers) about Mass G(raves)’, was a reminder about potential problems of motivated reasoning by a group. These erroneous beliefs could dissuade people from medical treatments and protection, possibly inciting physical attacks on medical institutions and personnel. The threat of an infectious disease is that a small number of people could propagate disease putting a larger community and those trying to contain and control the Biological Crisis at risk, disrupt cadaver disposition and medical care, while fostering Othering =2=.

Parademic 2304

1) Judge Reed O’Connor, Legalized Bias, 2) Separatist, Sovereign, State of Jefferson, Secession, Blockades, 3) Environmentalism, Liberal, Conservative, 4) Interdisciplinary, Existential Risk, Risk Perception, 5) Mass Fatalities, Death Surges, 6) Tradition, Abortion, 7) Antivax, Debate, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Del Bigtree, 2024 Presidential Election, 8) Wild Fires, Fire Retardants, Toxic Smoke, Unintended Consequences, 9) Polio, Hubris, Variola, Eradication, Selective Pressure, 10) HIPAA, Privacy, Telemedicine, Telehealth, 11) Tucker Carlson, Misinformation, 12) Language Change, Linguistic Evolution, Zipf’s Law, Lamarckian, +1> Flu, Antivax, Naming Diseases, +2> Drought, Climate Change, Apocalypse, Arable Land

-1. Judge’s Ruling Undercuts US Health Law’s Preventive Care =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9= =10=. This particular judge apparently has a history of anti health decisions =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9=, and is likely a Constitutionalist Originalists ^3A↓.

            -A. The larger parademic topic is if legal systems should be involved in health and medical decisions, in what ways, and should there be any limits and oversight to making legal decisions that are not based on medical science, especially when authoritative agencies have already made subject matter expert decisions. The trend appears to be that for all practical purposes there are two legal systems at the Federal level in the US. Likely this will take decades to decisively resolve and will involve systemic changes to the existing system. 2301 Parademic-6B. In the meantime there is already a court battle over the issue ^8A↓.

            -B. Depending on what metrics Parademic 2303-6 are used (that is manipulation of information, statistics and cherry picking) it is possible to create debate whether or not prevention is cheaper than acute care =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9= =10=. There is no one answer and these are situational dependent upon a complex array of nuanced, granular, macro and micro economics, with complications thrown in. In any case health insurance is further threatened with increased vulnerability for public health, and the timing is poor as there is nearly a cure for AIDS/HIV =2=. Likely this ends hope of ending the HIV epidemic in the US within ten years, at the very least even a brief interruption will allow more spread, which will delay the goal of geographic containment and control for an additional decade.

            -C. Quote: Disasters (Biocalamity) must be examined, and their causes must be investigated as to the role that humanity’s laws (legal aspects of parademic) in one context might play outside their defined remit where environmental and other disasters manifest. It is vital to establish, with scientifically verifiable evidence, a sustainable political/ legal structure that acknowledges environmental impact and seeks ways to address the features of destruction – Disasters, Pandemic and Repetition: A Dialogue with Maurice Blanchot’s Literature Page 3.

-2. State of the State of Jefferson: How this Secessionist Movement Started and Where it Stands Today. One of the forecasts Parademic had made prior to CV is that there would be towns and possibly counties that would isolate themselves and not permit outsiders in or travel through. Except in some minor and very brief ways this did not happen despite sovereignty movements. Instead of causing disruption through blockades and declaring separation, there was simple refusal to follow social distancing protocols, sometimes with weapons. This may have been the result of a unique period of gubergenic that gave separatist groups a sense of control of and support from government, i.e. they could resist and secede without having to go through legal and extra legal processes against opposition by authorities, but did so in a different way than forecasted. Sovereignty successions occurred before CV, and are starting to reemerge after the official end of CV =2☺=.

            -A. It was also assumed that these separatist areas would largely be rural flyover country =2= #Book =2=. It happens that in my own local rural area there someone had posted hand written signs to inform tourists they were not wanted and to keep moving (200328-CV12, 200327-CV12B) and a few [road blocks =2=]. There was some hearsay that the local indigenous NDN’s had blocked roads but I was never able to verify this actually happened.

-3. Poland: Persuading Conservatives (to support) Pro Environmentalism Not as Easy as One Might Think. In the context of the climate crisis, it is becoming ever so crucial that the public adopts pro environmentalism worldviews and actions. However, conservative people tend to be unlikely to change behavior and beliefs, and rather stick to traditions. It might be necessary to reframe the pro environmental messages in campaigns targeted to conservatives. One way to do this is to use their own moral values and language. Research indicates that liberals and conservatives make moral judgements based on different sets of moral foundations. Liberal people tend to rely on individualizing morals which value individuals' rights and justices with empathetic motivation, more conservative people tend to rely on binding morals, which value ingroup loyalty, purity, order and conventions.

            -A. I am uncertain this can be generalized to other nationalities and cultures. For instance questions about: What is pro environmental behavior and is that behavior pro social; What does “purity =2= =3=” mean in the context of environmentalism; What is conservative and is liberal the diametric opposite of conservative.

            -B. In the US conservatives ^6C↓ are associated with framing their messages as individual freedoms being threatened by groups such as liberals and immigrants who are in control of the deep government, and are pro environment, pro vaccine and anti business. This would not fit the moral messaging suggested in the article. This could be turned into proof that liberals (or Russia, Zionists Conspiracies, Immigrants) are creating misinformation to persuade people to follow their agenda.

-4. The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse.

            -A. The site may be a useful source of parademic information, but its immediate interest is the continued trend of paying attention to who and the reliability of information sources =2= that are about and related to on social collapse, existential threats =2= and mitigating those consequences from interdisciplinary perspectives. This may indicate a more general paradigm shift that could be useful improvements in human behaviors toward biocalamities. This may be the result of changes in perspective and interpretation of risk.

-5. 200 Bodies in Hong Kong Have Been Refrigerated, Some for More than 3 Years, Because Hearses Can't Cross over to Mainland China. Though overshadowed by hospitals being unable to handle the surge of CV pandemic patients and in some cases forced to close or were no longer able to accept more patients, there was another important issue of being unable to handle the surge in mass fatalities. In fact, one of the indicators of a high intensity pandemic is the inability to dispose of bodies.

            -A. In some ways the problem of disposition of cadavers are more difficult to overcome than the inability to provide medical care during pandemics. Besides legal issues there are also traditions, beliefs and prejudices that militate against developing capabilities and alternate means of disposal. These range from the wishes of the deceased, life (death) insurance being overwhelmed and unable to meet financial claims, payments for long term storage, upkeep of records of location, loss of next of kin, resistence of cremation and mass graves, logistics of transportation, special problems of remains that are still infectious, possible murders and medical malpractice, hiding and theft of bodies, lack of political will to deal with addressing the complex issue and lack of resources.

-6. Worldwide, Those with 'Traditional' Values Adhered More Strictly to Covid Precautions. Given the battles over Covid-19 rules and recommendations in the United States over the past three years, the findings of a study may come as a bit of a shock: Globally, those who professed to hold traditional values tended to adhere more closely to Coronavirus prevention measures than those who considered themselves more liberal.

            -A. This is more data to support the speculation that the meaning of words in the US depends on ideology and/or geographic area. Likely “traditional” [Video] is a term used in political marketing and misrepresentation are either something to be valued and/or supported to maintain security =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= with continuity of older values. For those opposing ideologies (cultural war) ^3B↑ the idea of traditional values is to be derided and are outdated for contemporary needs.

            -B. Traditional apparently correlates with the Roe Overturn, Abortion =2= =3= =4= ^3A↑, Gun Control =2= =3= =4=, Parademic 2302-Cont4 ^3A↑, and CV flatten the curve measures.

            -C. Traditional methods of containment and control of an infectious disease are more in line with science based public health social distancing and other measures ³↑. Tradition implies more acceptance of authorities, or in the US the myth and marketing rhetoric that American’s resist authority that are attempting to destroy American traditions/ values ^3B↑.

-7. Neil deGrasse Tyson Makes the Unforced Error of “Debating” Antivax Propagandist Del Bigtree on The Highwire =2= =3= =4= =5=. Last week, astrophysicist and famed science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson appeared on The Highwire, an antivax video podcast, to “debate” its host, antivax propagandist Del Bigtree. This incident demonstrates quite well why it is almost never a good idea for a scientist to agree to “debate” science deniers. 1) You can’t have an honest scientific debate – or any evidence and reason based debate – with bad faith actors who can distort, Gish gallop (or firehose), and misrepresent data and science to their heart’s content in such a way that even the most skilled disinformation debunkers will be hard pressed to keep up and. 2) The crank controls the narrative, which makes it incredibly unlikely that you will persuade anyone in the audience and, worse, you will be used as a propaganda tool by the host to demonstrate that his positions are worthy of being heard on the same platform. 3) No matter how much you might have science, evidence, and facts on your side, in a televised debate format it often doesn’t matter. 4) The science advocate is the foil that the propagandist uses to spin his propaganda. “Debates” of this sort are useful only to science deniers as a means of promoting their message and falsely elevating their status ^+1A↓.

            -A. Other science vs non science debates Parademic 2303-2A include the Bill Nye vs Ken Ham, Philipp Lenard vs Albert Einstein, William Jennings Bryan vs Clarence Darrow, Lysenko vs Biology =2= and Political ones.

            -B. There is a strong possibility that the upcoming presidential nomination and election debates will include antivax and the rhetorical devices used by antivax =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9=, along with manufactured debates (gaslighting) =2= =3= =4= about combination flu/ CV vaccines =2= =3= and other health issues =2= =3= =4= =5=.

-8. Lawsuit Around the Use of Aerial Fire Retardants Could Change US Forest Firefighting. A lawsuit filed in Montana by the Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics =2=, is looking to stop the US Forest Service from dropping fire retardant into water, an act they claim is polluting rivers and streams.

            -A. The environmental impacts of fire retardants has been known problem for years, but knowing something is a biohazard does not automatically mean it will be addressed. Usually before actions are taken when they become apocalypses (reveal ^+2B↓) of frequently repeated mass fatalities that are directly correlated and perceived as a close threat ^1A↑ for it to gain sufficient public outrage to gain political traction and/or expensive lawsuits ¹¹↓. However, in the contemporary US this does not seem to be the case for mass shooting events =2☺= ^6B↑.

            -B. Solutions don’t always solve problems, or the problem being solved is not the real problem. Solutions for either real or invented problems tend to make it worse or result in different problems as unintended consequences ^9A↓. Under modern conditions fires are likely to create toxic smoke.

            -8.1. Speaking of accelerating anthropogenic fires which cascade into food insecurity, drought, heat waves, toxins in the air, green house gases, factory farming, risk perception and solving wicked problems. A Fire Killed 18,000 Cows in Texas. It’s a Horrifyingly Normal Disaster.

-9. The Dream of Wiping out Polio Might Need a Rethink. There is no maybe about needing a rethink. The program failed in part because of not considering human factors and dimensions. This includes not anticipating misinformation, developing effective pre debunking, bypassing, fact checking, neutralization of scapegoating and blame deflection, and developing trusted information sources and communication. There was no effort to neutralize incitements to avoid the vaccine, advocation for violence against vaccinators, use of an attenuated virus that could evolve into an infectious disease, and those willing to lie, cheat and kill to prevent polio eradication. Fortunately, most misinformation campaigns are a problem that provides their own solution by using the same techniques. We know more now, but will we provide the funding and political will to come up with a new way to eradicate or change the virus to a human benign form.

            -A. There was hubris in assuming the polio virus was understood well enough that it could be eradicated. This was based on the successful eradication variola, but that success may be undermined by another pathogen =2= filling the now open ecological habitat/ microbiome. From what we now know polio when given the opportunity to have the time needed to evolve can adapt to selective anthropogenic pressures, a solution that had an unintended consequence ^8B↑.

            -B. The dream that all infectious disease will eventually be eradicated is wrong. We will probably become better at control and containment, but complete eradication is not possible as long as being human means that humans are part of natural and/or human managed biospheres.

-10. Dying Patients Protest Looming Telehealth Crackdown =2=. At age 93, struggling with the effects of a stroke, heart failure and recurrent cancer, she was ready to end her life using New Jersey's law that allows medically assisted suicide – but she was bedbound, too sick to travel.

            -A. Though telemedicine was generally successful for filling the gap from social distancing to keep medical facilities and staff safe it did create problems. To solve these problems crackdowns =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= are being created without full information and consideration of human behavior that will have unintended consequences.

            -B. The motivations behind the crackdowns are not clear, but some of the explanations are likely to be credible but not the actual reasons. Probably more related to trying to gain control than concern about patient privacy and other legal issues. These are legitimate concerns but echo politicized efforts to not collect and provide data by misinterpreting HIPAA =2= =3= =4= =5= =6=.

-11. Tucker Carlson and Fox News Part Ways. Misinformation was a feature during CV and other disease outbreaks. Carlson was a major source of medical and public health information fraud =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9= =10= =11= =12= =13= =14= =15☺= =16☺=. Unknown if this is part of a trend to control the flow of misinformation that causes harm to individual and public health. It’s likely that the costs to reputation and finances ^8B↑ are becoming so large that businesses can no longer afford the use of and be associated with conspiracy theory, fear mongering, moral panics, misinformation and supporting gubergenic as income streams.

-12. Statistical Physics Reveals How Languages Evolve. Interesting, but does not account for linguistic changes (CV06 in the 2020-2022 Listibase) observed in Parademic. In a parademic most neologisms and new meaning for existing words seem to be driven by popular media (news, propaganda and social) and technology/ anthroposphere. For example, shelter in place became shortened to lockdown with its negative association with prison lockdowns, school shootings, limitations of freedom and decreasing income. Words from parademics tend to be temporary words and/or meaning that fade out after the acceleration phase ends (Ebolaphobia), but sometimes become permanent because the acceleration/ consequences continue (Climate Change). The statistical physics model appears to be for very long term evolution of languages, rather that the smaller ups and downs (waves) of dynamic/ living languages which are in constant change. Maybe language (Zipf’s Law) drift, change, shifts should add linguistical (Lamarckian, acquired) evolution, and may not follow Zipf’s Law despite it being statistical and empirical.

Continued +

+1> Parademic 2302<CONT-1>, 2301 Parademic-5. Vaccine Makers Are Preparing for Bird Flu =2= =3= which is already infecting animals. If it crosses over to humans it could be more intense pandemic than CV =2= =3= (zoonosis), with sustained human to human (H2H) transmission after spilling over from birds to intermediate animal hosts to humans =2=. In turn flu can jump from humans to other animals.

            -A. Various strategies =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9= are being considered to mitigate this possibility but policy will vary by country. Concurrently, there will be antivax panics, which will cite anecdata that the 2009H1N1 was a fizzle =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= with continued claims that CV was not very bad while the CV vaccine was horrible =2= =3= =4= ^7all↑. There will also be information framing that will make it seem there is impending doom or that things are normal.

            -B. Despite the adopted conventions of naming disease outbreaks this one is already being called the bird flu. When it sustains H2H it is a human flu that can spillover to potentially infect other animals and birds, and over time mutates =2= =3= =4= to infect and evade organic and manmade immunity.

            -C. A reliable source of information is the Avian Flu Diary which is not usually cited in Parademic because it tends to be clinical and technical.

+2> 221025 Macro and Micro-3A. The 100 Year Old Mistake That’s Reshaping the American West, what happens if the Colorado River keeps drying up. 1) The Worst Case Scenario for Drought on the Colorado River =2=, one in eight Americans depend on a river that’s disappearing. 2) You – Yes, You – Are Going to Pay for the Century Old Mistake That’s Draining the Colorado River, because a huge amount of US food is grown in the desert using water from a river that’s drying up. Dams were probably built in an effort to expand the available arable land to meet the needs of an expanding population, power needs, luxury and economy. This probably lead to motivated reasoning that ignored diversion of water to physical and urban deserts from finite sources of water that depended on precipitation for reservoirs and irrigation, and failure to research that all dams eventually fail =2=. 3) Let’s Talk about the Biggest Cause of the West’s Water, because the Colorado River is going dry ... to feed cows. 4) The Devil Lurking in the Dust from extreme weather is deadly fungus =2= further into the American West Parademic 2303-7 all +1. 5) These 8 Species Depend on the Colorado River. What Happens as it Dries Up and as these species die out will cascade through food chains and kill more.

            -A. Biocalamities usually have long history before the problem is recognized, and are likely a combination of environmental and social determinants =2=. The longer the problem is not recognized and the longer the delay to take action that is effective and doesn’t create more problems and/or avoids solving the problem, the more a single error accumulates into cascading accelerations, and the greater the intensity and diversity of the associated parademic.

            -B. I am considering replacing biocrisis, the combination of biocalamity and parademic, with “Apocalypse”. Apocalypse in popular usage has come to be a simile for catastrophe, but the original meaning was to reveal what is hidden =2= =3= =4= =5= ^8A↑. This fits nicely with bradyoccult, human tendencies to shift blame and inability to not see the very small and large existential events, even when they are directly infected, affected, effected (inaeffected).

Parademic 2303

1) Art, Children, Planning, Disease Reservoir, 2) Airlines, Vaccine Nationalism, (De)Funding, 3) Anniversary, Endemic, WHO, 4) Havana Syndrome, 5) Agriculture, Epidemiological Transition, Anthromes, Food Replicator, Neologisms, Linguistic Drift, 6) Sweden, Corruption, Reopen, Continuity of Business/ Government, 7) BioEthics, The Last of Us, Fungus, Zombies, Narratives, 8) Drug Economics, Drug Production, Drug Supply 9) Guns, +1> Covid Origins, Covid Conspiracies, Covid Secrecy, Argie Bargie, +2> Scientific Literacy, Mask Bans, Efficacy of Masks, Dormancy, Reservoirs, +3> Thawing Arctic, +4> Baby Bust, Biosphere Collapse, Overpopulation

-1. Little Kids Drew Their Grim – and Hopeful – Reality of Covid =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9=. For planning for the next pandemic and its consequences art may help to anticipate how the children of today see pandemic now, and how that will influence interpretations in the future and present day coronaphobia and coronadenial. If nothing else these provide a range of [indicators] that can give an idea of how many children will be unvaccinated =2= from reemerging diseases and who may resist vaccination for future endemic and epidemic disease outbreaks.

-2. Leading Airlines Commit to Helping UNICEF in its Historic Mission of Transporting Covid-19 Vaccines Around the World =2= =3=. This is too late/ little to eradicate SARS-COV-2 (if that is even done*^A), but maybe this will contain this now globally endemic disease to reservoirs that non human and their domesticated/ captive species. Might become a model for neutralizing vaccine nationalism*^B. Diseases could care less about physical and jurisdictional boundaries of humans in their false belief those will provide permanent protection from infectious diseases.

            -*A. Historically these efforts eventually fail for the same reasons. 1) Lack of funding =2=. 2) “Why should we help them”. 3) Supplies of the treatment, cure, prophylactics become outdated, are not maintained, insufficient and/or no longer effective =2= =3= =4=. 4) “The crisis is over”, to eventually be followed once again with “why wasn’t enough done to prevent a reoccurrence”. 5) The threat is forgotten or never accepted in the first place.

            -B. (Vaccine) Nationalism: 201222-CV08A, 201208-CV32A, 201011-CV23D, 200915-CV12, 200827-CV01 -B, 200730-CV18, 200727-CV01A -B, 200709-CV11.1A, 200629-CV29,  200608-CV29A, 200604-CV06 -CV33A, 200524-CV23B, 200516-CV05, 200426-CV15B, 200418-CV10C, 200322-1A, 200315-2A.

            -C. As I reread the stubs related to Nationalism I got the impression Nationalism was used for personal goals and protection more than the intent of protection for the citizens one is responsible for. During the keyword search – with attention to related topics not noted here – I was surprised how quickly National interests superseded Global interests that corresponded with National interests, in other words making claims about or inciting populist and gubergenic nationalism actually worked against the populations (or segments) of nations. Extreme CV nationalism may have been an artifact of this particular time where elections and authoritarianism tended to gain and keep government control through appeals to national identity and coincided with CV. It appears what was used to gain and maintain control of government were the same techniques applied to CV. These actions tended to correspond to misinformation and logical fallacies that make conclusions that don’t follow the argument either because of an error in reasoning or a trick if done to deceive.

-3. On 3/11/20, WHO Declared a Pandemic. These Quotes and Photos Recall That Historic Time =2= =3= =4=. ¿Will Mar 11 become an officially recognized anniversary or will another date be chosen to mark the  beginning or the end of either the pandemic or the recognition the biosphere is starting to become unable to support life. Will there be monuments for the the dead or the winners (survivors), the lasting changes to society (especially to health systems), an inspiring sound bite?. At this time if nothing changes it will be unlikely there will be a major permanent memorial or day of remembrances.

            -A. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

-4. How ‘Anomalous Health Incidents’ in Cuba Sidelined Science*^A. The Havana syndrome saga is an epic failure of science, one with severe consequences both for patients and for international relations. This is another persistent belief that will likely to continue to cause damage and a definitive answer will never be found. This will be one of many historical mysteries like the several analogues =2= =3=, the Gleiwitz attack, and contemporary disinformation =2= ^{<Cont>1 & >2 -A}↓.

            -*A. =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9= =10= =11= =12=.

            -B. Havana/ Microwave/ Cuba. 200530-CV04.1, 200415-CV18, 200119-2.1 -A.

            -2019. Report Finds Microwave Energy Likely Made US Diplomats Ill, Scientists Suggest US Embassies Were Hit with High Power Microwaves – Here’s How the Weapons Work, <ADDED 190922-180311-6>1, <ADDED 190825-170813-4.1>13, <ADDED 190728-180311-6>13, <ADDED 190519-180311-6>11, <ADDED 190331-180311-6>6, <ADDED 190317-180311-6>13, <ADDED 190210-180311-6>9, <ADDED 190203-180311-6>7, <ADDED 190113-180311-6>10.

            -2018. <ADDED 181216-180311-6>10, <ADDED 181209>-180311-6>9, <ADDED 181202-180311-6>12, <ADDED 181104-180311-6>9, <ADDED 180930-180311-6>7,  Trump Administration Lets Oil and Gas Companies Conduct Seismic Tests That Could Harm Atlantic Whales, Dolphins, <ADDED 181125-180513-1.1>10D, <ADDED 181104-180311-6>9, <ADDED 180916-180311-6>5, <ADDED 180909-180311-6>8, <ADDED 181028-180311-6>6,  <ADDED 181007-180311-6>9, <ADDED 180930-180311-6>7, <ADDED 180916-180311-6>5, <ADDED 180909-180311-6>8, <ADDED 180902-180311-6>9, <ADDED 180826-180311-6>7, <ADDED 180624-180311-6>6,<ADDED 180617-180311-6>4, <ADDED 180610-180311-6>7 -‡, <ADDED 180527-180311-6>3 -A, Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuba, 180311-6, <ADDED 180304-170827-2.1>6,  Is Trump Using ‘Health Attacks’ on US Diplomats in Havana as an Excuse to Punish Cuba, Cubanitus, <ADDED 180225-170827-2.1>6, <ADDED 180204-170827-2.1>16  <ADDED 180114-170827-2.1>6, . Not noted in this list of stubs for 2018 was the campaign by the US and extreme right wing countries to push Cuban Doctors and Health Diplomacy out of Mexico/ South America and other “3^rd World” countries. It happens that these same countries have illegal and “diseased” immigrants come to the US.

            -2017.  Cuba Tells US Suspension of Visas Hurting Families possibly harbinger of separating illegal immigrant children from parents, 171210-8, The Loud, Obnoxious, 3,500 Year History of Sonic Warfare, <ADDED 171022-170827-2.1>6, <ADDED 171015-170827-2.1>9, Cuba Official Accuses US of Lying about Sonic Attacks, <ADDED 171008-170827-2.1>11, <ADDED 171001-170827-2.1>8, <ADDED 170924-170827-2.1>6, <ADDED 170917-170827-2.1>2, <ADDED 170903-170827-2.1:, 170827-2.1, 170813-4.2 -A, <ADDED 170723•170618-2.3:, 170618-2.3 -‡ -2.4, Trump to Reverse Obama’s Cuba Policy this is before the “attacks”.

            -2016. 161127-12, How Trump Could Easily Reverse Obama's Opening to Cuba,  [Cartoon], 161023-9, 160619-5

-5. Linguistic Drift: The changing of meaning of existing words and introduction of neologisms or reemergence of old words and/or definitions. These changes reflect social changes and shifts worldviews. Parademics apparently accelerate the need for words, new meaning, new idea, to be able to share what previous models of experience are unable to communicate. These changes however are not always rapid and widely shared, and there are numerous words that have lost previous meanings to include discard of the word from general vocabulary.

            -A. Agriculture is one word that is diversifying in meaning depending on context. The term still has the wide meaning of the production of raw food and some materials for products, as well as a type of human employment. 1) In the context of biocalamity/ parademic, especially in areas of specialized knowledge, agriculture has become a general type of anthrome, and the creation of other types of anthromes. 2) Agriculture is associated with epidemiological transitions, that is that will increasing agriculture correlates with increasing human population size and densities, industrialization, more diseases emerging that infect humans and domesticated species and decreasing biodiversity. 3) Agriculture is starting to be viewed as a destructive global force that needs to be changed.

            -B. The previous ^A↑ are beginning to erode the idea that agriculture is the only means to achieve urbanized civilization (albeit different from most contemporary urban lifestyles), with radical ideas that past civilizations existed that were not based on agriculture and that future civilizations may not require agriculture =2= =3=. This may mean the need for new words and concepts, as well as the continuation for the atavistic preference for “food” to taste, smell, feel and look like they are from natural sources.

 -6. The Extent of Corruption in Sweden May Be Underestimated. Corruption risks in a mature democracy (public/ private interface), mechanisms of social advantage and danger zones for corruption.

            -A. The thesis does not directly address Covid, Coronavirus, Pandemic, Medicine and Public Health. However, there are implications about cronyism and favoritism between government and business. If it is found that there are correlations of gubergenic and the official policies, decisions and possibly pressuring for desired support (reopening the economy, not shutting down the economy) made by the US and Sweden. Specifically, profit (to include political gain) more important than lives, and elites ⁷↓ are more important than the general population. This may support the idea of Continuity of Government (COG), and Continuity of Business (COG) are at odds with Public Health the continuity of communities, populations and society.

            -B. Sweden: 210103-CV04C, 201214-CV29 all, 201119-CV26A, 201112-CV29 all, 201107-CV18B, 201027-CV29 -A, 201014-CV01A -D, 201009-CV29, 200923-CV29 -A, 200906-CV03A3a, 200824-CV17, 200813-CV05.2 -A, \fs24cf2 200724-CV30, 200722-CV15, 200708-CV01, 200527-CV29B, 200516-CV27, 200508-CV06D1), 200502-CV04, 200418-CV4A, 200405-11A.

-7. A Bioethics Professor Weighs in on the Last of Us Finale, is it ever justified to kill one person to save many others. Interesting question that explores a wide range of situations where it becomes necessary to decide to with hold massive resources from one who probably will not survive anyway, in favor of dividing those same resources among many that can be saved with less help (combat triage =2= =3=).

            -A. Is The Last of Us a fictional rehearsal =2= =3= =4= =5= for a possible real world event that already impacts wild animals =2= and plants. More importantly who should have the ethical responsibility to make a decision that could doom thousands to save an economy, high density urban areas while not helping low density rural areas, or specific parts of the population – age, heritage, ideology, gender, nationality, elite ^6A↑ privileged, business ^{6 all}↑.

            -B. In fact there are a number of decisions made daily that are based on where to put limited resources that are not necessarily (immediately) life threatening =2= =3= =4= =5= =6=, especially to those who are not at risk to the bio (fungal =2=) or other threats and the consequences of decisions if it turns out to be harmful. Controlling

            -C. Frequently there are panics related to items from both factual and fictional media =2= that can become persistent beliefs, such as the overlap with zombie conspiracy theories =2= =3= =4=, and when people be afraid of a fungus infection without the TV Show. This may be similar panic with a radio show broadcast =2= =3= =4= =5= =6=.

-8. U.N.: Global Cocaine Production Rebounds after Covid-19 Slump in Demand. Possibly an economic indicator of recovery the CV on the economy.

            -A. (Criminal, Illegal) Drug: 201226-CV21A, 201201-CV03A, 201118-CV21 -A, 201031-CV21, 200803-CV11 -A, 200715-CV07, 200608-CV11, 200424-CV14, 200420-CV21. This list does not include medical scams like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, legitimate pharmaceuticals and shortages 201024-CV28, FDA and secondary effects of drug addiction that were all concurrent with CV.

-9. Gun Injuries in US Surged During Pandemic, CDC Study Shows. The study highlights just how violent America's recent past has been by showing a surge in gunfire injuries during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the number of people  fatally shooting each other. For every American killed by gunfire, an estimated two or more survive, often with terrible injuries – a fact that public health experts say is crucial to understanding the full impact of guns on society.

            -A. Maybe the issue should focus not on the spectacular news of mass shootings =2= =3=, right to have weapons, but the more mundane problem of accidents, domestic violence, suicides and irresponsible storage and sales of weapons, the issues of gun safety.

Continued +

+1>Parademic 2302-4C -G. Covid-19 Conspiracies Soar after Latest Report on Origins =2=  =3=  =4= =5=. Was it an accident from biolab research, or an accident with a bioweapon. One can presume it was not an intentional release inside one’s own country (so maybe another country did it), and it would not be wise to use a bioweapon before a treatment and preventative system was in place before release. In my personal opinion it is likely there was a lab accident, but by keeping that a secret China has supported conspiracy theories that a bioweapon was involved, possibly funded by the U.S. as a Gain of Function study.

            -A. China is not the only country that has been keeping secrets about CV =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9= =10= =11= and trying to deflect blame.

            -B. Lab leak has become another example of information fraud (misinformation) and of a persistent belief in what is imaginary that will likely not die until all the believers do =2☺= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9= =10= =11= =12= =13= =14= =15= =16= =17= =18=, 230306 Pandemic Preparedness-3D. What makes this more interesting and difficult to interpret is that social and biosphere interaction are always complex and likely to have complications (Racoon Dogs) =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= Parademic 2302-4G of data =2= =3= and conflicting narratives =2= =3=.

            -C. China’s Only Now Revealed Crucial Covid-19 Origins Data. Earlier Disclosure May Have Saved Us 3 Years of Political Argy Bargy =2=. Now this is fascinating =2=.  I thought the Chinese government had trapped themselves in a narrative and the cultural value of Saving Face =2= that overrode considerations of survival, such as the zero CV reversal =2= 201230-CV22.1A -D in that could be explained by the desire to eliminate resisters through infection. This is so unexpected the implications and consequences have yet to manifest. One predictable effect will be those who have trapped themselves in an intentional release of CV bankrolled by “scientific medicine” will attack the validity of this data ^update and other rewriting/ gaslighting of history while the wildlife trade =2= and wet markets will come under scrutiny again.

+2>Parademic 2302-9A. Do Masks Work. It's a Question of Physics, Biology, and Behavior. in a Crowded Place, a Face Mask or Respirator Keeps the Virus Away =3= =4= =5=. Masks are not absolute protection, like any security one wants layers and if an exposure (breach) occurs to be aware of it so protective action can be taken.

            -A Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Mask Mandate Ban Again Ruled Illegal =2= =3= =4=. [Poster]. [Misinformation]. Again pointing out that there is no valid data on mask effectiveness as there was no way to assure masking and covid status. The debate over masks shows our failure to learn from Covid and likely will result increase vulnerability. One possible positive outcome of this mask fiasco =2= is increased awareness of how science can be manipulated and evaluation of methodology.

            -B. The CV pandemic is not over but likely dormant and in animal reservoirs. This issue of efficacy of masks also implies the question of CV Vaccination =2= =3= =4= =5=, while giving misinformation the veneer of being official ⁴↑ Parademic 2302-4G.

            -C. Scientific (il)literacy leads to being unable to evaluate methodology, statistics, conclusions drawn and possibly increase mistrust of science, especially when it is politicized.

+3>. 200906-CV05A. There has been a recent spat of news articles on the thawing arctic releasing old diseases. Is this a recycle/ revision of The Thing that Came from Outer Space 1951, and done again in 2011, 2017, 1982 and 2021 to suit the current situation about climate change, pandemic and biolabs. There were also TV shows =2=.

            -A. These fictional depictions of a risk may form a better base of dread about a warming planet than other forms of communication.

+4>  Thinking of Having a Baby as the Planet Collapses. First, Ask Yourself Five Big Ethical Questions on a planet rocked by the climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, famine and poverty, is having one just adding to the problem – and therefore unethical. Anyone with the means to control their fertility now has an obligation to also ask themselves the following five questions:

1) Will my child have a lifestyle that mean others will live in poverty. 2) Do I have parenting desires. 3) Could my desire be filled if I raised someone who is not biologically directly connected. 4) Can this be satisfied in other ways such as fostering, teaching, mentoring or  adopting. 5) Do I desire more than on child and in some cultures the gender, physical capabilities, mental attributes.

            -A. The assumption that the planet is collapsing is an opinion not fact. The biosphere is changing, and though parademic points out the possibility of mass extinction if nothing changes, but there are changes to those trends. In fact, if there is extinction, it may be critical to have more babies than fewer, and those babies (of all species) don’t need to be born right away. There may be other ways to avoid anthropogenic biosphere collapse that are better, faster and less likely to have unintended consequences that can’t be reversed.

            -B. Baby: 201231-CV33B, 201229-CV01B, 201220-CV16 -A. The last stub has links to other related stubs.

230306 Pandemic Preparedness

Keywords: Press Release, IFRC, Donations, Worldviews, Anthropogenic, Anthropocene, Anthroposphere, Climate Change, Global Warming, Paradigm, Biosphere, Red Cross (IFRC)

Excerpt: The current state of planning and preparedness for novel and reemerging infectious disease outbreaks are not sufficient for the surge of medical and non medical needs. Getting ready will take years to develop and implement, and will require changes to all social systems, not just public health and medicine.

-1. World ‘Dangerously Unprepared’ for next Pandemic, Red Cross Warns =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8=. “The world’s largest humanitarian network says strong preparedness systems are ‘severely lacking’ despite three years of the Covid-19 pandemic”.

-2. The above is poor science journalism that answers the wrong question about pandemics =2= =3= =4= =5= =6=. This oversimplified article is based on a press release =2= =3= from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) about two reports, World Disasters Report and Everyone Counts Report.

            -A. The cited reports were likely briefly reviewed, but neither of these two reports are technical and based on an extensive data analysis. They are more self assessment reports likely intended for encouraging donations to administer and provide aid. These rehash IFRC agendas and recommendations that date back decades. The information is not invalid, but the journalism and IFRC reports are recycles/ repeats of what has been known for decades, but never learned.

            -B. Both reports are worth reading if one is interested in improving capabilities of effectively managing surges in medical needs. Though none of the observations and recommendations are new they still do not address human factors and dimensions (parademic) that are the root effect of being unprepared.

            -C. The key preparedness problem is not the lack of having stuff, but not having the worldviews =2= =3= to comprehend the interactions of the biosphere micro systems and macro systems – individual macrobes (visible life forms) to environmental ecologies. If there was such comprehension the need for preparedness to respond to novel accelerating*^D biosphere calamities (biocalamities) would be a no brainer and would have probably been well started by now.

            -*D. Biocalamities are a norm of the biosphere with the constant changes of the litho-, atmos- and hydro/cryo spheres resulting in biosphere changes from movement of species, evolving  habitats, mutations and adaptations. The problem is when a biocalamity accelerates creating novel conditions that the existing dynamic biosphere cannot adjust to even if those changes takes thousands of years. Acceleration is relative to geological and biological time scales of mass extinctions, not human time scales of individual memory and incomplete and biased historical records.

            -E. For example the start of global warming of the holocene – back when Alaska was attached to Asia and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine – did not completely culminate in the mass extinction of mammoths until about 4000 years ago after being an anatomically identifiable species for 300,000 years. Using astronomical time [=2=] scales it has only been recently that anthropogenic behaviors accelerate the warming of the Earth to a speed that is noticeable to humans, exceeding the ability of nearly all macro species to adapt to the accelerating biocalamity of climate change. Many micro species will probably survive and thrive =2=, while other micro species that keep infectious pathogens in check will become extinct from higher temperatures and other anthropogenic toxins.

-3. The referenced articles ^1&2↑and associated reports are probably another failed attempt to stimulate wide public outrage in the hope of generating some improvement for the purpose of weathering pandemics. It will literally take decades to prepare the anthroposphere (longer for the whole biosphere) for a global pandemic. It is uncertain if there is enough time to change anthropocentric behavior before the accelerating biocalamity starts an insidious cascading collapse of its many interconnected systems into inevitable mass extinction. Not addressed are: 

            -A. Funding global health systems with the necessary changes to economic systems. This does not necessarily have to address the vulnerabilities of the social construct of economics (imaginary systems) to corruption, abuse, inflation, deflation, wealth gaps and graft. It does need to address financing health systems that are needed, where needed, at the time needed, without shutting down or disrupting medical systems from waves and surges from biocalamities that overwhelm the financial basis that supports medical care, treatment and research. This system will also need to be able to provide for the non medical systems and consequences (food, information, water, supplies, transportation, income, paying debts) while the economy is disrupted.

            -B. There will have to be agreements and collaborations between governments which have conflicting agendas and who will likely resist losing any sovereignty, probably because of  extreme nationalism (ideologies) =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= that assumes they will survive while the rest of the world dies. A new type of global body with the power to enact global biosphere health to prevent, mitigate and respond to a biocrisis. So far global social systems this extensive have not had a promising history.

            -C. Vocabulary and new definitions will need to develop that has global agreement on what the terms mean ^3G↓ Parademic 2302<CONT-5>, along with the concepts and mental templates that inform the meaning of terms. In other words the natural and systemic paradigm shifts ^3I↓ =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9= =10= =11= will happen that will change languages. These changes in language cannot be imposed but come from peoples experiencing that available language no longer provides the means to model what happens in real time in the real world.

            -D. Global education needs to include the continuously evolving concepts of biology, health, infectious pathogens and ecology, as more is learned. Concurrently education needs to foster identifying and questioning unexamined assumptions (and prejudices), critical and systems thinking, evaluation of research methodologies and constructive debate. These topics as part of school curriculums are under attack =2= in part because this type of education will neutralize misinformation campaigns and could bring current ideologies into question.

            -E. Modern medicine has not been around that long, possibly coinciding with the start of the Anthropocene [Cartoon]. Frankly there is still more unknown than what is known about medicine, human biology and its interactions with the biosphere. The chasm is still so wide that humans are only vaguely or completely unaware of the expanse of its ignorance. Current medical systems are still reeling from being unprepared for the uncertainties and unknowns of a global pandemic. The continuing aftermaths are driving more systems toward collapse, unable to adjust to the deceleration curve from what was a low intensity pandemic. This will require integration of medical and public systems while controlling and mitigating the impact of medical scams and erroneous information.

            -F. Legal Systems are resistant to change, but will have to make interpretations more suited to the contemporary world, than its tendency to support politically motivated ideologies =2= and “stability” of social status quos. The basic and oversimplified question that needs to be resolved is the balance between law being a living system =2= and/or a dead =2= one.

            -G. Pandemics raise questions about religion and ideologies of comparable ethos. The basic question is not about death, but if religious systems are themselves dying =2= or evolving. This does not need to be absolutely resolved (recovery to previous religion hegemony no longer being possible), but an aggregate. Conflict, change and struggle are characteristics of open systems, and institutions have characteristics associated with ecologies and living systems. To illustrate using a language ^3C↑/ religion interaction one can ask what the word dominion ^3C↑ =2= means (responsible stewardship or decreed plundering), and whether Inshallah is Deus/ Diaboli or Human.

            -H. Development of interconnected worldwide logistics systems (not just medical but all life needs) that will speed manufacture of effective novel products, special distribution requirements, research and development, production, delivery, equitable access with triage considerations, and ability to provide life support for those who are sheltering from infection, isolated in medical care, or in quarantine to contain a contagion.

            -I. Transportation. The anthroposphere no longer has the time and distance to prepare for a pandemic that is thousands of miles away. What took centuries to propagate globally can now spread worldwide within a 24 hour period, but not be identified as a pandemic in progress for weeks. No human barriers and laws =2= can totally prevent a disease from entering everywhere, only delay the spread and possibly provide time to contain and control, while flattening the curve.

            -J. All of this implies global and systemic social changes. Behavior has to be different during global pandemics than non pandemics, while also changing social systems that influence behavior that damage the global environment. The idea of absolutism that everything must remain the same needs to die out if the species homo sap does not want to become extinct.

            -K. Mitigation of the anthropogenic processes that have been accelerating since at least the end of the last ice age and probably well before the paleolithic (the Anthropocene) will result in paradigm shifts ^3C↑ that have been the norms – which have been bradyoccult paradigm drifts since the first cultural humans – for millennia and supported by all the above systems. It will be very expensive in the short term and will become more expensive the longer seminal existential changes are avoided. With sufficient delay the costs will be moot as change becomes a ubiquitous unstoppable catastrophic cascade. In the long term there will be benefits and growth of the above human systems, assuming there is time to continue to socially evolve and overcome archaic/ deleterious beliefs/ behaviors. These processes of social changes are already in progress.

            -L. The last criticism of the “world is dangerously unprepared for pandemic despite three years of the Covid-19 pandemic” are:

                        -1) The headline is logically ridiculous, though appearing credible with the appeal to authority by implying the world’s largest humanitarian network made the statement.

                        -2) Can systems change responding to biocalamity during the acceleration of the biocalamity. Preparing for a pandemic during the pandemic would divert efforts from manufacture of protection, development of treatments and cures, and medical support for those infected (which in some cases did or are in collapse).

                        -3) Are the correct lessons learned and recorded during an accelerated biocalamity, assuming those who made the observations survive to report and be heeded.

                        -4) Will what is learned be disseminated and implemented afterward in the face of the needs of consequences, efforts for blame deflection, aftermath (sequala) from the pandemic, needs that were unrecognized until the pandemic, recovery of previous systems, and in competition with agendas of organizations and individuals that have an interest in surviving their failed preparations after making claims that they were ready.

                        5) Was this the right statement to make, or would it have been better framed as questioning “why was pandemic preparedness not improved during the syndemic. The answer to that question would have been seminal about human factors and dimensions an area of study that humans apparently understand even less than the biosphere. The behavior of humans in the context of the biosphere (parademic), especially when they fail to support life (biocalamities), is a basic question that needs some study of the dysfunctional interactions of society, behavior, health and environment, before planning for biocrises (biocalamities started and exacerbated by humans).

-4. Currently many of the stubs related to planning for pandemic are not posted due to the slow pace of the editing the 2020-2022 Parademic Listibase. I am finishing up an unedited version by adding material collected but not posted. When this is done, I will add a list of these stubs.