Parademic Notes Week Ending 170604

Read This First, 1. Handshake, 2. Politics and Plagues, 3. BioLab Safety and Funding, ↕4. Mosquito Borne, 5. Immigrant Borne, 6. Enterprise’s Weevil Statue, 7. Anthropology of Disaster, 8. Humanities and Science , ↕C. Communications, ADDED

-1. Handshake Free Zones Target Spread of Germs in the Hospital. Hospital acquired infections (nosocomial) can be life threatening, and unwashed hands are often to blame. One hospital in California thinks banishing handshakes could help reduce infections. [Poster]. Handshake Free Zone: Keep Those Hands, and Germs, to Yourself in the Hospital. ¶ Hell Yes I Mangled Donald Trump's Hand on Purpose, Macron Says [Photo], 170528-10.2↓.

-2. Retro Report: Politics and Plagues (Video). The eradication of smallpox, and the start of polio eradication which was stopped by rumor and mistrust. Polio eradication may now be back on track, and experiences with the polio campaign helped stop Ebola in Nigeria.

            -2.1. We Have Been Poisoning Ourselves: Has Ice Analysis Revealed the Truth about Lead. Analysis of an ice cores taken from the Swiss Alps together with records dating from the time of the Black Death have revealed that there is no “natural” level of lead in the air. With events such as volcanic eruptions releasing lead into the air, it was thought that even before industrial times there was a “natural background” level. But now finding that traces of lead trapped within the ice core fell to undetectable levels as the Black Death swept across medieval Europe, shutting down industry. For at least the past two millennia human mining and smelting activities have been the originator of detectable lead pollution in the European continent. This is anthropogenic change that was halted for a short time by a different biodisaster. Probing the Black Death for Lead Pollution Insights. Humans Polluted the Air Much Earlier than Previously Thought. ¶ Exposure to Specific Toxins and Nutrients During Late Pregnancy and Early Life Correlate with Autism Risk, .php" Exposure to Heavy Metals May Increase Risk of Autism, Autism Linked with Air Pollution Exposure During Pregnancy (2013), Autism and Autistic Symptoms Associated with Childhood Lead Poisoning (2005). What the Trump Administration Doesn't Understand about Clean Air.

-3. NIH Scales Back Plan to Curb Support for Big Labs After Hearing Concerns. Faced with a barrage of criticism, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has scaled back a plan to cap its support for individual labs in order to free up funds for more scientists. #Document CDC Generally Met its Inspection Goals for the Federal Select Agent Program; However, Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Oversight, CDC Could Do More to Keep Labs Safe. And is safety considered an overhead expense. ¶ What’s in Trump’s 2018 Budget Request for Science. Cuts to Biosecurity in Trump Budget Leaves 'The American People Very Vulnerable, Lab at Fort Detrick Faces Closing under Proposed Federal Budget.

↕4. US Taxpayers Are Funding a Zika Vaccine. Let’s Make Sure Us Patients Can Afford it. Here’s the back story: Last year, the government gave Sanofi, which is one of the world’s largest vaccine makers, a $43 million grant. Another $130 million may follow as research continues. The Army also disclosed plans to award Sanofi an exclusive license to a pair of patents that are crucial to the vaccine. But this move upset some lawmakers and patient advocates, who fear the deal will give the company a monopoly to exploit ― and might lead Sanofi to jack up prices for American consumers, assuming the virus spreads and vaccines actually become a big market. The backdrop to such concerns is the larger controversy over the rising cost of prescription medicines, a problem that has upset many Americans, prompted a flurry of legislation, and put the pharmaceutical industry on the defensive. States Fear Price of New Zika Vaccine Will Be More than They Can Pay, In the Drug Industry’s Civil War, Finger Pointing over Prices Is the Name of the Game, [Cartoon], Trump Should Put Consumers First in Zika Deal.

-‡. A New Zika Threat Hovers as Summer’s Mosquitoes Get Bzzzzy. Lyme Isn’t the Only Disease Ticks Are Spreading this Summer. New Vector Control Response Seen as Game Changer, With Innovative Strategy, UN Health Agency Launches New Offensive Against Vector Borne Diseases. Wolbachia Trial Shows Promise for Modified Mosquitoes. Mosquitoes Capable of Spreading Zika Virus Found in Nevada.

            -4.1. This is starting to become a common accusation that cases are being hidden by government officials, but again it is not clear that there was an actual coverup, or coverup of making an error, 170507-4, 170423-4↓. Did India Hide its First Cases of Zika Virus. The government "consciously did not go public with the cases" as the number of cases didn't rise. Critics say, on 17 March, a junior health minister when responding to a question in parliament said "so far, only one case of laboratory positive Zika virus has been detected as part of a routine laboratory surveillance in January 2017". The government was lying, they said, because the third - and final - case had been detected in January. A health official, however, defended the minister, "while two cases were picked up in January for testing and the third in February, only one confirmed case had been detected when replying to parliament". Nitpicking apart, many say it is surprising that the government decided to remain quiet for months about the first cases of a globally prevalent disease. It is surprising that the government, which gives regular public updates on dengue and chikungunya cases, decided to remain quiet about the Zika virus for months. This when India has, by all accounts, a fairly robust public health response protocol to tackling Zika. eld   HYPERLINK "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/30/officials-knew-about-indias-first-zika-case-for-months-but-they-di" Officials Knew About India's First Zika Case for Months. But They Didn't Tell Anybody. Days Before Confirming Three Zika Cases, WHO Moved India to Same Category as Brazil. India Used Questionable Loophole to Hide its Zika Cases from the WHO.

            -A. Indonesia: Ex Health Minister Faces Six Years in Prison for Corruption. Siti Fadilah Supari was the country's minister of health during the worst of the H5N1 pandemic fear. Between 2005 and 2009, 162 Indonesians contracted H5N1 and 134 of them died. Between 2010 and 2015, another 37 fell ill and 33 died. During her time in office, she withheld H5N1 samples on the grounds that foreign health agencies and corporations would use them to create vaccines that Indonesia would have to purchase. She also simply refused to announce H5N1 statistics, a clear violation of the International Health Regulations to which her country was a signatory. Jakarta Ends Stand off on Bird Flu Vaccines (2008), 'Sovereignty' That Risks Global Health (2008). ¶ A similar problem occurred with MERS As Outbreak Continues, Confusion Reigns Over Virus Patents (2013), Who Owns MERS (2013) Saudi Arabia Takes Heat for Spread of MERS Virus (2014), To Prevent MERS Pandemic, Respect Saudi Arabia’s Rights to the Virus (2014), 140105-28, 131124-27, 131006-38, 130922-34 -34.1, 130915-11 -29.1 – .3, 130901-58↓+. After SARS reaching other countries by air travel [Poster], MERS became a fear of being spread by airlines due to Haj mass gathering Vaccination Date for Haj Pilgrims in Oman Extended by Ministry, A Little More on MERS in Saudi Arabia – there are examples of airlines passengers incubating MERS traveling to other countries – and the myth that air circulation in planes spread disease Does Airplane Air Really Make You Sick (2011), 131110-37.1↓. This reappeared during Ebola(phobia), but like MERS some people were incubating Ebola on a flight and did get sick, nor did their fellow passengers get the disease. Measles on the other hand can infect other passengers while incubating B*↓. ¶ Supari Prize to be awarded from time to time to the politician or bureaucrat who most flamboyantly endorses a notable threat to public health. The prize itself is a sack of hammers, tastefully tied with a length of IV tubing and garlands of red tape. The 2017 award of the Supari Prize (with gold plated hammers) goes to Donald Trump. Supari Prize Candidate Rand Paul Warns of Ebola Crossing the Border and Infecting US Troops (2014). ¶ Supari is also known as Betel Nut.

            *. This illustrates a recycled narrative. An older story updated and put in a new context. In this case the disease will be spread by aircraft, but the disease threat changes and is brought up for different agendas, not necessarily recognizing the homologous antecedent and current relationship [Chart] 4.2A‡*↓. Allow me to draw attention that this stub is homologous and a recycled narrative. The stub theme is Mosquito Borne disease, which is related to climate change, which is related to biopolitics, which is related to the conspiracy theory, cover up, BioTrumpism, science literacy, and the Paris Agreement. Analogous ∩ relation means that a stub or items is a comparable equivalent in someway, such as function, form, effect – but don’t stretch so far otherwise it is reasoning by analogy – but are not directly related currently or share a common origin [Chart]. Pyramid Homology vs Analogy

            -4.2. Why the Menace of Mosquitoes Will Only Get Worse basically comes down to Another Deadly Consequence of Climate Change: The Spread of Dangerous Diseases. If we fail to integrate planning for the impact of climate change with planning for the prevention and management of pandemic disease, the consequences will be deadly. The link between climate and disease is most often identified through the spread of disease vectors such as mosquitoes. As areas warm, habitats for insects – mosquitoes and deer ticks, for example – expand, exposing new populations to new disease threats. The approximately one degree Celsius increase in average temperatures the planet has experienced is changing the numbers and distribution of the insect intermediaries that carry diseases to people. We could see a larger number of people at risk in the United States from Zika this summer as the Aedes aegypti mosquito moves farther north, complicating the already challenging efforts to constrain the disease. ¶ But a second, and less appreciated, interaction between climate change and epidemics occurs when humans and animals are forced to compete for dwindling habitat and resources. The scenario behind Ebola’s rise and global threat in 2014 illustrates this point. Climate change destroys habitats and stresses animal populations such as the bats of West Africa, forcing them to hunt for food nearer to humans. Humans, likewise pressed by climate impacts, encroach more closely on animal habitats. We will see more of these interactions in the future, and more epidemics as a result. Ebola demonstrates that even localized dislocation of people and animals can create global risk. Climate change is a threat multiplier for much broader dislocation – accelerating the complex factors that drive people from their homes, often as large, unplanned migrations that amplify regional instability and crisis. Over 20 years, the net effects of climate change on the patterns of global human movement and statelessness could be dramatic, perhaps unprecedented.

            -A‡. Given the previous 170528-5‡↓ it appears that there will be a delay by at least one of the G7 countries, to the detriment of everyone. Will the Government Help Farmers Adapt to a Changing Climate. Will the Paris Agreement Be Stronger Without the United States. President Trump Should Say ‘No’ to Paris Climate Accord. U.S. Resists Plan to Link Climate Change, Ocean Health. Trump Advisers in Tug of War Before Decision on Paris Accord. What Happens if Trump Quits the Paris Accord (Video). f2 Trump Expected to Withdraw from Paris Climate Agreement. Trump's Climate Decision Could Be Felt for Generations. The World Is Healthier and Safer than Ever – Why Does Trump Want to Reverse Course. On the Paris Agreement, Trump Is Doing the Right Thing the Wrong Way. Trump Is Likely to Pull out of the Paris Climate Deal. The Rationale Is Based on Lies. Shareholders Push Exxon to Disclose Business Impact of Fighting Climate Change. If Trump Withdraws from the Paris Agreement, Let's Hope the World Survives. Quitting the Paris Climate Agreement Would Be a Moral Disgrace. Climate Change Will Make People Sicker. Trump May Pull out of Paris Anyway, Why Ditching the Paris Climate Deal Could Have Significant Health Consequences. Scientists Are Testing a “Vaccine” Against Climate Change Denial 170528-1.1↓. Trump Announces Paris Climate Deal Rejection in Front of 16 Running Faucets. Experts See Climate Danger Zone If Trump Pulls Out of Paris Deal. Trump to Announce Decision on Global Climate Deal on Thursday. Trump Pulls Us out of Paris Deal: What it Would Mean. Ditching the Paris Agreement Risks the Economy Even As ItHarms the Planet. Trump Paris Fallout: Elon Musk Steps down from WH Councils. Trump Says US Will Abandon Global Climate Accord. France, Italy, Germany Defend Paris Accord, Say Cannot Be Renegotiated. Trump Pulls out of Paris Climate Deal and Does Something Right (And Brave). California and Other States Step Into the Climate Policy Void. Trump: I Was Elected to Represent Pittsburgh, Not Paris. Pittsburgh: Uh, We’re with Paris, I’m a Climate Change Researcher in Pittsburgh. What Is Trump Talking About. Corporate America Finally Got on Board to Fight Climate Change. Then Came Trump, The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability. Analysis: Trump’s Reasons for Leaving the Agreement Just Don’t Add Up. Trump Is Abdicating All the Country’s Moral Power 170507-7, 170326-5.1, 170220-7.2↓. Kudos to Trump for Rejecting the Climate Deal and Putting America First 170220 -1.8 -2↓. What Trump’s Decision to Pull out of the Paris Agreement Means for Your Wallet. Inside Trump’s Climate Decision: After Fiery Debate, He Stayed Where He’s Always Been. Trump Pulls U.S. Out of Paris Climate Agreement. Trump Quits the Paris Climate Accord, Denouncing it as a Violation of U.S. Sovereignty 5↓. Health Experts Are Furious with Trump for Pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. For President Trump, Decisions Accompanied by Drama [Ad]. How the World Can Contain Trump's Climate Lunacy. Trump Decided on the Paris Climate Agreement with Virtually No Science Advisers on Staff, and apparently few economic advisers , Trump's Paris Adieu Is Not Such a Big Win for Coal and Oil. EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Moves to the Power Center of the Trump Administration. A Big Box of Crazy: Trump Aides Struggle under Climate Change Questioning. U.S. Evangelical Green Groups Pan Trump's Climate Accord Exit. Bloomberg Promises $15 Million to Help Make up for U.S. Withdrawal from Climate Deal (14 More Billionaires Just Signed up for the Giving Pledge). How G.O.P. Came to View Climate Change as Fake. Environmental Studies Don’t Support Trump’s ‘Cleanest’ Claim. Indulge Your Climate Rage in Fantasy. Trump Thinks We Spend “Billions and Billions and Billions” on the Paris Climate Deal. We Don’t. How to Teach Kids about Climate Change Where Most Parents Are Skeptics, Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students, 170528-1.1↓. Confirmation Bias vs Desirability Bias. Trump Ignores the Messy Reality of Global Warming —and Makes it All about Him. B*, C.2↓. ¶ [Cartoon, Cartoon, Photo, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Photo, Screen Grab, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Chart, Tweet], French Toast: How US Newspapers and Cartoonists Reacted to Trump Pulling out of Paris Deal, With Plug Pulled on Paris Accord, Planet Earth Eligible for Hospice, Laughter Releases 'Feel Good Hormones' to Promote Social Bonding.

            -B*. The withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is an example of parademic narrative. Specifically we have waves of this narrative, where the theme is essentially the same (contrast with recycle 4.1A*↑), when there is no quantitative or qualitative difference in the previous narrative The Terrible, Predictable Life Cycle of Every Trump Tweet. Paris also illustrates competing narrative, Competing Media Stories and U.S. Public Opinion on Climate Change 2001-2010, and conflicting narrative, ∩ Who Am I and Who Are We. Conflicting Narratives of Collective Selfhood in Stigmatized Groups, The First Climate Refugees. Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu. Waves mean that the climate change narratives will continue. From an absolutist perspective this will be frustrating because the victory of withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is just part of the continuing narrative, not the climax and end. However one could argue it is the start of a biodisaster denouement, and predictably the narratives will become so conflicting that only one will eventually dominate. Unfortunately the dominance may be achieved by biodisaster. Given that this will be waves of the same narratives, Climate Change will likely not be covered in the weekly notes in much the same way National Health Care has largely not been included but is a narrative with following waves. Populist Radical Right a Threat to Core Values of Medicine and Public Health. Climate Pact Pullout Rewards the Few and Powerful. Trump's Paris Climate Decision Shows the Threat Rising Tribalism Poses to the Planet.

            -C. ¶ The Paris Agreement is part of BioPolitics, which falls under the umbrella of Parademic. The homologous relation of Parademic to BioPolitics (and political theater) is analogous to the relation of Climate Change to Weather, and self inflicted harm Climate Accord Decision Is a Win for Self Destruction. ¶ National Security Implications of Climate Related Risks and a Changing Climate (2015), NATO Joins the Pentagon in Deeming Climate Change a Threat Multiplier, oh great, another excuse to withdraw from NATO. NATO is not unrelated to parademic. If there is a biodisaster most national armies are the only organization that has the training and capabilities to operate and provide effective response in lethal environments of a biodisaster, provide security and protection during times of extreme weakness, and help maintain order in the face of civil disturbance and disruption. They also have the clout and independence to push back against climate change denialism. The reality is that many of the NATO members have neglected their military forces for years. If Putin was indeed involved in manipulation of Western democracies, it may have initially been successful but will end up having the opposite impact of making NATO stronger. Europe Reckons with its Depleted Armies. Trump's Support Drops in Military Communities.

            -4.3. We're on the Brink of Mass Extinction – but There's Still Time to Pull Back. Imagine being a scuba diver and leaving your air tank behind you on a dive. That's essentially what humans are doing as we expand our footprint on the planet without paying adequate attention to impacts on other living things, according to researchers. Both ominous and hopeful, a new report paints a picture of the value of biodiversity, the threats it faces and the window of opportunity we have to save species before it's too late. Linking the Influence and Dependence of People on Biodiversity Across Scales. The Most Important Endangered Species, Humans. I don’t agree with this. Undoubtedly the anthropocentric (geocentric, egocentric) would think it is the most important, and there is ample evidence that as a species Trump has put a large number of (if not all) species and biomes at risk. Humans however being the most important however, is questionable. [Poster, Cartoon, \fs24ulPhotoshop, Photo]. Probably premature to say that we are now entering the precarity that precedes such global levels of disaster. [Photo the US’s world nature preserve, Trump Golf Course, 2050]. How America Stacks up When it Comes to Greenhouse Gas Emissions. China’s Role in Climate Change, and Possibly in Fighting It. Once a Coal Goliath, India Is Turning Green. No, President Trump, the Paris Agreement Does Not Let China and India Steal Our Coal Jobs. The Sixth Extinction.

            -Quote: But the artifacts lying here were found at this level – and date back seven hundred years earlier. That’s the paradox. For the more ancient culture, is the more advanced. – Dr Cornelius, Planet of the Apes [Photo, Photo]. Quote from the Sacred Scrolls of the Lawgiver.

-5. One of the observations of 170220-5.8 et al↓ was the campaign tactic that immigrants brought disease into the US Six Diseases Return To US as Migration Advocates Celebrate ‘World Refugee Day’. This attitude and belief encouraged a non biodisaster parademic of racism, white supremacy/vigilantes Martyrs Against Racism in Donald Trump’s America: What Happened in Portland Was Shocking, but Not Surprising‡. Given the anti-immigration, anti-Muslim sentiments that happened during Ebola, what would happen now if there was an infectious disease outbreak in another country that was not European, or an infectious disease outbreak in this country that could be associated with foreigners. This is already having the parademic economic impact, and if white supremacists decide to attack concentrations of immigrant farm labor and professional 170212-10.1↓+ individuals the economy will get worse. To Keep Crops from Rotting in the Field, Farmers Say They NeedTrump to Let in More Temporary Workers, Farmers Brace For Labor Shortage Under New Immigration Policy, Calif. Farmers Wait for Mexican Workers They Desperately Need. Militia, separatist, anti-vax and sovereignty movements have already been identified as parademic candidates to self isolate 4.2A‡↑, 160828-1A↓+, during an accelerated biodisaster 161204-9.1, 160522-1↓+. This includes the possibility of preventing humanitarian access to those in need, armed fights against government authorities, hijacking and theft of supplies, cutting transportation links. A legal replacement of a government they approve of could have the same effect. Ironically this could lead to a reverse emigration with exodus of US citizens, who may not being permitted into other countries. ¶ Another pattern in non biodisaster parademic is the accusation of the same actions, displacing blame, providing a Gleiwitz justification of actions. Kathy Griffin Is Just the Tip of the Liberal Violence Iceberg. Thief Stole Backpack and Wedding Ring From Dying Portland Hero After Terrorist Attack [Update: They Arrested Him].

-Quote: Here was a country that had everything, absolutely everything. And now, 20 years later, is what. The world's biggest leper colony. – Lewis Prothero, V is for Vendetta [Photo, Poster]

-‡. Fewer Refugees from Donald Trump's Travel Ban Countries Have Killed People in Terrorism in the Last 40 Years, than White Supremacists Have in the Last Week. Donald Trump Is Not Blameless When White Supremacists Slaughter People. Armed Militia Battle Anti-Trump Protesters in Portland, Portland Republican Says He Might Use Militia Groups for Security, How the Trump Campaign Could Evolve into Organized Violence, in 6 Steps. After Stabbing, Portland's Mayor Wants 2 Right Wing Demonstrations Canceled. The Portland Stabbing Is the Latest in a Wave of Racist Attacks Across America. On a Portland Train, the Battlefield of American Values. Organizer of Portland Pro·Trump Rally Reacts to Deadly Rampage, also known as denial or avoiding blame. Suspect in Portland Stabbings Built Life Around Hate Speech. Noose Found in National Museum of African American History and Culture.

-6. #Invasive Species. Why an Alabama Town Has a Monument Honoring the Most Destructive Pest in American History. The boll weevil_(Search) decimated the South’s cotton industry, but the city of Enterprise found prosperity instead.

-7. Special Issue: Continuity and Change in the Applied Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disasters. All of the following topics have been addressed in Parademic before, but in simpler terms in the context of biodisaster. The main difference is that inequality is not as emphasized as in most anthropology with its tendency toward activism. The parademic problems that happen in a biodisaster boil down to the following.

-A. Continuity and Change in the Applied Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disasters. Considering that disasters affect nearly a quarter of the world's population each year, such scholarly attention is apropos, to say the least. The global annual average of disaster related deaths per year is roughly 100,000 and reported economic damages average more than US$160 billion per year. Catastrophes such as these not only claim lives and property; they also displace tens of millions around the globe, cause billions of dollars in losses. Disasters compel communities to rapidly adapt to new environments, lifeways, and subsistence strategies. They compel affected people to take stock of their personal and cultural identities in ways they may not have in the past; they hurt, and they reveal much to us about our values, desires, and our whole affective ranges.

-B. Disaster Vulnerability in Anthropological Perspective. In the study of disasters, the concept of vulnerability has been primarily employed as a cumulative indicator of the unequal distributions of certain populations in proximity to environmental and technological hazards and an individual or group ability to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from disaster. This concept has influenced disaster research as a means to question how natural, temporary, and random disasters are, and focused analysis on the human environmental processes that produce disasters and subject some populations more than others to risk and hazards. Is it possible that vulnerability has outlived its usefulness. What are the potential consequences or benefits that could come with conveying the concept of vulnerability to policy and decision makers.

-C. Resilience: a Commentary from the Vantage Point of Anthropology. In recent years, the concept of resilience has gained popularity as a means to describe the qualities and capacities that enable a community to recovery from a catastrophic event. Definitions of resilience make a number of assumptions about the nature of communities and the practices that enable their ability to cope or weather a disaster's impact. 1) Disaster has a historically shaped process involving development practice and human environment relations. 2) The broader political ecological relationships that shape resilience. 3) An emphasis on systemic transformation rather than locality specific interventions as a means of resilience building, 4) Rebuilding better as a mechanism for addressing practices that routinely give form to disaster vulnerability and those conditions that are branded low resilience.

-D. The Question of Culture Continuity and Change after Disaster: Further Thoughts. Anthropologists often struggle with interpreting the extent to which human behavior during and after disasters constitute departures from preexisting culture. The extent to which disasters cause consequential cultural change is largely determined by size or magnitude of the disaster, whether the manifestations of change are scrutinized in short or long term, and whether the change occurs within the deep structures of a culture or merely surface regalia. Concurrently there is also resistance to change.

-E. Considering Culture in Disaster Practice. In disaster related policies and practices, culture is often treated as tangible, homogenous, static. The diversity of communities and places, on the ground actions and networks for how things are actually accomplished, intricacies of local politics and maneuvering and layers of sociohistorical equalities, are often missing from expert calculations and official frameworks for action. The basic but most important first question goes unasked: What would you do and how. Understanding the complexity and dynamics by which we experience and understand the world is much more challenging than at first glance. Culture is fluid, evolving, and intertwined with a host of economic, political, and social relations and tensions that are constantly altering seemingly stable processes. Disaster reconstruction is a complex, culturally sensitive dynamic, within which decisions are embedded in tensions of social, political, and economic priorities. In the unfolding plays of disaster, the interpretive, behavioral, and material repertoires we refer to as culture exhibit some of the characteristics of emergence, insomuch as they are not fully determined by arrangements that precede them; yet, neither are they without antecedents, relationships with the past and other ongoing processes. In parademic it is rare that a behavior is truly emergent. There are always clues of how people will react but these are not always noticed beforehand.

-F. Disaster Capitalism. The term disaster capitalism still has resonance within social movement circles. Yet its proliferation in media and social movements risks a confusion and weakening of the core concept and critiques. For parademic purposes this is not a useful concept as it is too limited and based on unexamined assumptions. From my observations there is always exploitation of an event, be it criminal, benevolent or cronyism in intent, but there are also unintended consequences, protection of one’s identity group over others. Get Ready for the First Shocks of Trump’s Disaster Capitalism, 170220-4.3↓.

-G. Disaster Risk Reduction and Applied Anthropology. It has been clearly established that people around the world through long experience and practice develop a deep knowledge of their environments and possess a number of elements – technologies, forms of work, organizations, and the like – which allow them to make use of the resources in the environment for social reproduction and sustainability, many of which are as well relevant to the management and reduction of disaster risk. In effect, strategies and practices that reduce risk of disaster are simply basic components of overall cultural adaptation. All cultures develop strategies, such as early warning systems, escape routes, identification of safe/unsafe locations, as well as many livelihood strategies such as crop diversification and housing design and form, which may reduce the risk of disaster as part of overall cultural adaptation. However, risk is also produced in the shared behavioral and interpretive repertoires we refer to as culture; this can be through error, misinformed or misplaced priorities, or imposition by external factors, many of them a function of inequality and power. This currently applies to misconception of climate change.

-H. Disaster Response and Recovery: Aid and Social Change. The complex and far reaching impacts that disaster aid has on the socio·ecological and cultural·political transformation of affected communities in Response and Recovery with disaster narratives and bad victims. The restoration and endurance of the predisaster ecologically and culturally shaped practices and relationships largely depend on how disaster, damage, and survivors are perceived and manipulated. This became widely discussed during Ebola when it was recognized that local input was being ignored, and the victims were being blamed for resisting aid that they were suspicious of.

-I. Afterward: Preparing for Uncertainties. As the frequency and intensity of disasters increase around the world in the context of a changing climate, the likelihood that disasters will impact anthropological field sites increases. Therefore, disasters will increasingly become an expected component of anthropological work, and the risks, hazards, and disasters will change anthropological research, practices, and methodologies as a whole.

-8. History usually is considered a part of the humanities and occasionally classified as a social science. Here we see it broadening to being interdisciplinary and exploring how biological science informs history, Medieval Historians Taking Genomics into Account. This turn hasn’t come all of a sudden. Historians began paying more attention to bacterial genomics a little over a decade ago when plague aDNA first hit the news.

↕C. Four Ways to Respond to Criticism: Why “Acknowledge and Improve” Is Usually Wiser than “Low Profile,” “Defend,” or “Counterattack” (An Australian Sheep Industry Example). 1) Keep a low profile – ignore the criticism and hope it won’t catch fire with too many people. 2) Defend – rebut the criticism, making a case that your critics are wrong about you. 3) Counterattack – criticize the critics, making a case that people should focus on their misdeeds, not yours. 4) Acknowledge and improve – concede that at least some of what the critics are saying is true, and explain what you’re doing about it.

            -C.1. Telecommunication Policies May Have Unintended Health Care Consequences. Reverting back to a voluntary approach to Net Neutrality potentially threatens the well being of many people, particularly those at risk for health disparities due to low income or rural residency. Not only does this voluntary approach shift winners and losers to favor large telecommunication giants, we are specifically concerned with several areas of health care being negatively impacted, including innovative solutions for telemedicine, health enhancement, and cost effective scalable sharing of health care data. Rural Health Innovations Need Dependable Internet. Sharing Medical Data Requires High Speed Connectivity. 170507-1.1E↓. Ryan Appoints Controversial Cancer Doctor to HHS Committee Patrick Soon-Shiong, a controversial billionaire scientist, to a committee that will advise the Trump administration on policy around health information technology 170312-7A↓. Tom Price Bought Drug Stocks. Then He Pushed Pharma’s Agenda in Australia.

            -C.2. Public Confused by Climate Change Messages. Experts, charities, the media and government confuse the public by speaking 'different languages' on climate change, a new study says. The research team focused on Colombia and likened climate change communication to a 'broken phone'. Climate Change Communication in Colombia, The Psychology of Climate Change Communication (2009). Scientists Really Aren't the Best Champions of Climate Science. When scientists struggle to communicate with the public, they often respond by doubling down: more data, more charts, more lines of evidence. But sometimes you don’t need more science; you just need three minutes with the pope in a parking lot. 170528-5‡↓. All 63 of Pope Francis' Blunt Tweets about Climate Change, Donald Trump Has Tweeted Climate Change Skepticism 115Times. Here's All of it, 4.2‡↑. ¶ Alan Alda's Experiment: Helping Scientists Learn to Talk to the Rest of us, It's All about Building Relationships: Alan Alda Talks about His New Book, If I Understood You, Would I Have this Look on My Face [Cover], 170409-C.2↓.

            -Quote: People are dying because we can't communicate in ways that allow us to understand one another. – Alan Alda

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• 170528-1A: Finding Our Critical Infrastructure.
• 170528-1.2: How Stigmatized Are Undervaccinated Children and Their Parents.
• 170528-2: How Many of Us Has a Forebear Who Died of Spanish Flu. The Deadliest Disease in History. The Tragedy That Killed a Stanley Cup. 1919 was the first and only time no champion was crowned was because playing the final would have meant risking players’ safety. The Spanish Flu left one hockey legend dead and many demanding change.
• 170528-3.1: Donald Trump’s Border Wall: A ‘Progress’ Report. The government itself says it has yet determine a way of measuring how effective segments of the border walls are at slowing or stopping illegal crossings.
• 170528-4.1‡: 7 Babies Born So Far with Zika Complications in Florida.
• 170528-5.1‡: Chemical Defender Put in Charge of EPA Unit Overseeing Toxins. #Document Putting America’s Health First: FY 2018 President’s Budget for HHS, White House Budget Proposal Spells Steep Cuts for Public Health. Delaney Statement on Potential Closing of National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center. How Trump’s Budget Makes Us All Vulnerable to Bioterrorism. 5 Things to Know about Trump’s Budget Proposal (Video).
• 170528-7.2: Advice for Tedros: Laurie Garrett Q&A, Part II. The WHO's New Boss Is Tasked with an Impossible Job.
• 170528-10.1: Climate Change Could Cause Sleep Deprivation. Don't Let That Global Warming Sleep Study Keep You up at Night. Another illustration of a science story that misrepresents the science. On the other hand the original article requires specific knowledge and interest. This makes it difficult to read and therefore not widely circulated. If it remains largely unknown it cannot influence behavior. Potentiality Vs Determinism.
• 170528-10.2: Trump Demands Brevity When He Consumes Top Secret Intelligence. He likes visuals. Yet there are signs that he might not be retaining all the information, fully absorbing its nuance or the sensitivities of the information and how it was gathered. How President Trump Consumes – or Does Not Consume – Top Secret Intelligence. Not exactly what one would want with nuanced, sensitive, non-linear, granular fields like biodisaster.
• 170521-6‡: NOAA Forecasts an above Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season. Trump Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change, but It’s Going to Drown Mar-a-Lago.
• 170521-6A: Now Is the Time to Revisit Wall-E, Perhaps the Finest Environmental Film of the past Decade.
• 170521-9: Congo Reports Outbreaks of Severe Bird Flu in Ituri. Congo Approves Use of Ebola Vaccination to Fight Outbreak. Could the Latest Ebola Outbreak Help Avert Future Epidemics. Powerful New Ebola Vaccine Heads to Congo to Help Stop Outbreak. Could the Latest Ebola Outbreak Help Avert Future Epidemics. Congo Health Minister Says Ebola Outbreak under Control.
• 170521-14‡: Measles Outbreak in Minnesota Surpasses Last Year’s Total for the Entire Country.
• 170507-1A: Germany Announces Mandatory Vaccinations for Children.
• 170326-12: India's Cities Have a Honking Big Noise Problem. Night Lights, Big Data: Tool Shows Relationship Between Nighttime Lights and Socioeconomic Factors. Humans Are Making Too Much Noise – Even in Protected Areas. Is Light Pollution Really Pollution.
• 170220-6.5-T: [Photoshop]. Mystery of the Flickering Red Lights in the White House Grips the Internet.
• 161204-4A: Doctors Didn’t Know How Cholera Spread Until One Genius Drew a Map.