Read This First -1. Insurance and Vaccination, 2. Opioid Epidemic, 3. Anthropogenic Extinction, ↕4. Mosquito Borne, 5. US and Global Health, ↕C. Communications, <ADDED>.
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-1. Improved Vaccination Rates Would Fall Victim to Senate Health Cuts. Passage of the Senate's health care bill ‡1, as proposed, would risk eroding national health in one little discussed way, according to medical experts: It would eliminate cash that pays for vaccines to protect the most vulnerable among us from diseases like mumps, measles ‡2 or the flu. People may forgo immunizations as they did before ACA passed. A rollback of vaccine funding – coupled with the Senate bill’s proposed demolition of Medicaid expansion [Cartoon] – would make it more difficult for groups including the working poor to get vaccinations or other preventative care. And lower vaccine coverage would be the only significant blow to public health. The Senate bill would also zero out the Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF), which helps finance childhood vaccinations in addition to emergency preparedness and response. 170709-2, -2A↓. <ADDED>•170709-3↓. Millions More Uninsured Could Impact Health of Those with Insurance, Too.
-‡1. Young Dropping Coverage as Uninsured Grows by 2 Million. After Months of ‘Death Spiral’ Hand Wringing, Marketplaces Have Most Profitable First Quarter Ever, Obamacare Markets Showing Signs of Profitability. Viewpoints: Reasons to Defend Medicaid; for Congress, Recess Isn’t the Problem… It’s the Games. Trump Administration May Have to Convene Board That Inspired ‘Death Panel’ Fears. The Senate's Super Wonky, Super Important Medicaid Debate. [Cartoon].
-‡2. Measles Continues to Spread and Take Lives in Europe, UN Health Agency: Measles Has Killed 35 Children in Europe, Measles in Europe: 'Every Death or Disability Is an Unacceptable Tragedy, Romania Measles Cases up to 7600, Italy Reports 2nd Measles Death. Massive Measles Outbreaks in Europe: A Harbinger of Things to Come in the US. Civil Liberties’ at Center of Vaccination Debate in Texas, 170709-9‡. Indonesia: Measles Kills 40 Infants in Deiyai\fs24plain , Public Reminded of Importance of MMR Vaccine after Number of Measles Cases Confirmed in Northern Ireland, Vietnam: Anti-Vaccination Trend Worries Experts. The Fragility of Truth. A Short History of Vaccine Objection, Vaccine Cults and Conspiracy Theories.
-1.1. There Are Four Kinds of GOP Rabble Rousers on Health Care. 1. The Medicaid worriers. Fear a harsh backlash from voters if the ACA’s Medicaid expansion is phased out under their watch. 2. The primary positioners. Fear that an Obamacare repeal bill leaves too much of the law in place. 3. The ideologues. Unaffected by the numbers of people who might lose their health coverage and more affected by their own beliefs of how they could make the health care system better. 4. The noisemakers. As long as Obamacare is repealed. If one changes the words a bit this is a good list of hostile parademic attitudes that could hinder control and containment of a biodisaster, and possibly create, exacerbate or accelerate one. Come to think of it these already have: Fear decisions, do nothing until “right” choice is clear; Fear loss of power; Fear loss of identity; Use these fears to obtain and build more Power. Senator Says Revised Health Bill Will Keep Republicans’ Proposal to Reduce Medicaid Costs.
-1.2. The 5 Faulty Beliefs That Have Led to Republican Dysfunction on Health Care. 1) If it’s your own money, you’ll be more careful in how you’ll spend it. 2) Many or most poor people (Medicaid recipients) can work and should contribute to pay for insurance. 3) Government restrictions are holding back insurers from competition that would drive costs lower. 4) Physicians should be the only ones making care decisions (with the consent of their patients) since they know best. 5) Government should help people – but not too much. GOP and Republican is used as a simile for Trumpism, extreme conservative, Christian fundamentalists, anti-science, racists, fiscal goals over humanitarian ones. None of these are correct, it is more that factions have hijacked that political party as a means to gain power. These factions agendas can be easily reinterpreted to suit the a priori biases, but in a different direction than republican ideals. Same can happen with any political party, such as the Democratic party broad brushing all Republicans as being these extremes, same as the demagoguery of Democrats by Republicans. When “Welfare Reform” Meant Expanding Benefits. John Calvin: The Religious Reformer Who Influenced Capitalism.
-Quote: I call myself a Republican 'cause I am one. I believe in market solutions and I believe in common sense realities and the necessity to defend ourselves against a dangerous world and that's about it. Problem is now I have to be homophobic. I have to count the number of times people go to church. I have to deny facts and think scientific research is a long con. I have to think poor people are getting a sweet ride. And I have to have such a stunning inferiority complex that I fear education and intellect in the 21st century. But most of all, the biggest new requirement, really the only requirement, is that I have to hate Democrats. And I have to hate Chris Christie for not spitting on the president when he got off Air Force One. The two party system is crucial to the whole operation. There's honor in being the loyal opposition. And I'm a Republican for the same reasons you are. So I hope your voice gets louder in the next four years. – Will, The Newsroom. Election Night, Part II. It was the different voices (Tea Party) in the Republican party than the one’s that the Will character was referring too. This faction took the Senate in 2014, in part using Ebolaphobia – Aug 2 - Nov 4, 2014, leading to Trumpism in the 2016 election. The show’s historical setting ended Jun 27, 2013 with its final episode on Aug 2, 2014. The Final Story for a Paean to Journalism. ¶ PBS Poll: 70 Percent Say Civility Has Dropped since Trump’s Election, Americans Say Civility Has Worsened under Trump; Trust in Institutions Down, Offices Can Be Bastions of Civility in an Uncivil Time.
-2. How America Is Battling its Horrific Opioid Epidemic. Deaths from Opioid Overdoses Have Jumped – and One Age Group Is Being Affected at Stark Rates. Sheriff Won't Let His Deputies Carry Overdose Antidote. A sheriff in an Ohio county with record numbers of drug deaths in recent years is sticking to his longstanding refusal to allow deputies to carry an overdose antidote. He remains opposed for safety reasons because, he asserts, people can become hostile and violent after being revived with naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose and is often referred to by the brand name Narcan. Backlash after Councilman Asks City to Ignore Drug Overdose Calls. City councilman in Ohio asked if it's possible for emergency crews to stop responding to drug overdose calls. The police still administer the antidote because law enforcement’s oath to protect life, comparing the situation to a first responder not doing CPR on an obese person because they have poor dietary habits. The City Council member said arresting people who overdose increases the burden on taxpayers and strains the court system and is standing by his comments, "we need to put a fear about overdosing in Middletown". The Viral Story About the Cop Who Overdosed by Touching Fentanyl Is Nonsense. FDA Chief to Impose Tougher Doctor Training Rules on Opioid Manufacturers. Massive Price Hike for Lifesaving Opioid Overdose Antidote, First Responders Learn Narcan Price Will Double as Opioid Epidemic Soars. Goal of Nation’s First Opioid Court: Keep Users Alive. As Opioid Overdoses Exact a Higher Price, Communities Ponder Who Should Be Saved. This is not a biodisaster but behaviors are the same as parademic ones. Stigma, moral outrage, publicity seeking, helping after the problem accelerates rather than preventing before, financial exploitation, and possibly the most dilemmas of triage. 1‡↑. ADDED•170709-8A↓. And in case one forgets there always seems to be a conspiracy theory to explain A Conspiracy Theory that became a Conspiracy Fact: The CIA, Afghanistan’s Poppy Fields and America’s Growing Heroin Epidemic. Global Research, Journalistic Ethics and Norms: How legitimate is The Centre for Global Research, [Meme].
-2.1. Medicaid Cuts Could Exacerbate Opioid Epidemic, The Senate Health Care Bill Would Make One of America’s Deadliest Public Health Crises Worse. Not only would lack of medical access increase vulnerability and possibility of biodisaster, but drug usage is associated with crime and poverty. These circumstances increase the chances of biodisaster. Extreme Opioid Use and Doctor Shopping Still Plague Medicare 2↓. Except this is not an epidemic. This is using epidemic to sharpen a crisis, so if the parademic without an epidemic does become worse what can be said to draw attention among everything else demanding attention. Public Health Crisis conveys the problem, not as alarming as an Epidemic, but for those concerned about unintended consequences to public health it suffices. Epidemic draws attention from those who don’t actually care but now think it is a contagion that may infect them, and then look for a solution in the form of blame, doctors and medicaid. Add Desperate for Addiction Treatment, Patients Are Pawns in Lucrative Insurance Fraud Scheme could contribute to mistrust of medical personnel during an actual epidemic.
-‡. Feds Announce Largest Ever Crackdown on Opioid Related Health Care Fraud. Jeff Sessions: Mandatory Minimum Sentences Protected Us from Violent Crime. Research: Nope, Analysis: A History of D.A.R.E., the Program Sessions Wants to Revive. Trump Promised to End the Opioid Epidemic. He Could Be Making it Worse. National Strategy to Reduce Opioid Epidemic, an Urgent Public Health Priority. Judge Throws out Conviction of Woman Who Laughed at Jeff Sessions. 412 Charged in DOJ’s Largest Ever Health Care Fraud Takedown. Jeff Sessions Proposes Reviving D.A.R.E. Program.
-3. Prelude to Global Extinction: Human Impact on Earth's Animals. Disappearance of species tells only part of the story of human impact on Earth's animals. In the first such global evaluation, biologists found more than 30 percent of all vertebrates have declining populations. They call for curbs on the basic drivers of these losses. It may not be long until the term [Strip] Extinction Denial is added to the long list of science and evidence denialisms. Earth Is on its Way to the Biggest Mass Extinction since the Dinosaurs, The Sixth Extinction (Video). 170709-7.2, 170604-4.3, 170521-1, 170514-6.2, 170507-8 (misnumbered as 7 in stub list), 170409-2.4, 170326-6, 170226-2.1, 170220-1.6 -9.3B, 170122-9.3, 170115-11, 161211-8, 161113-4.1H, 160925-4A, 160911-1.2, 160904-10.1, 160821-4.5A, 160717-4.1, 160703-5.1, 160626-2, 160619-9, 160522-7, 160501-8↓+. In geodisaster, disaster management the highest level is catastrophic where global resources are overwhelmed. In biodisaster the highest level is mass extinction. [Meme, Breakfast of Champions Quotes]. Era of 'Biological Annihilation' Is Underway, Scientists Warn. Coverage for Catastrophic Care Imperiled by Proposed Obamacare Replacements.
-3.1. How Fear of Humans Can Ripple Through Food Webs and Reshape Landscapes. Fearsome predators are afraid of us. Although we likely retain a primal fear of predators from the days when our forebears lived among giant ice age carnivores, today we overcompensate for that fear with a penchant for killing that is unknown in the wild. At a time when humans have become the dominant influence on the planet – leading many scientists to dub this epoch the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans – it’s perhaps not surprising that we distinguish ourselves as killers too. We kill adult animals, the reproductive future of a species, at up to 14 times the rate seen in wild predators. We kill large carnivores at 9 times the rate they kill each other (mostly through intraspecies battles). The wide ranging ecological and evolutionary consequences of our extreme predatory behavior uniquely define humans as a global ‘super predator’. Humans have turned carnivores into prey. ¶ On the positive side, the fact that a top predator fears us enough to avoid us when we’re out and about means they can coexist with us. But it’s a balance. If they become too fearful to traipse through human landscapes, their habitat and hunting grounds will become even more fragmented, drastically reducing their chances of long term survival. [Meme, Meme, Chart, Chart 4↓, Chart]. Man as being the top of the food chain is inaccurate. We don’t eat predators, we have and do eat anthropoids and semians [Chart], we don’t always kill plants and animals for food. Humans have created its own food chain and is not an important factor in other food chains, except they have disrupted all the other food chains. [Art, Photo, Art]. Why Should Humans Care About Preserving the Diversity of Life on Earth.
-3.2. The Microbial Anthropocene. Over the last decade or so, geologists and ecologists have begun to talk about planet earth entering a new geologic period called the Anthropocene, defined as the period when humans became the driving force of change on planet Earth. Debates continue on when the Anthropocene begins; sometime in the late 18th century when the industrial age is underway with the first steam engines, new products appear like plastic that persist in geology, and in medicine, Jenner begins his work on vaccines in the 1790s, would make sense. I suggest that this also marks the beginning of the microbial Anthropocene — when humans become a driving force in microbial evolution. Disagree. Anthropogenic pressure accelerated about then, but the anthropogenic pressure of agriculture and domestication of animals started long before as a selective pressure on microbe evolution. Microbiology of the Anthropocene, What the Hell Is the Anthropocene Anyway, Microbes in the Anthropocene: Spillover of Agriculturally Selected Bacteria and Their Impact on Natural Ecosystems. Anthropocene Equation (Slides). [Chart, Chart].
-3.3. Biosphere Socialsphere Interactive Systems. Organic and its products change of the inorganic environment. Related but not the same as the Biocultural Approach, Biocultural Anthropology, Principles of Biocultural Anthropology. The Kombucha Craze Steps into Art and the Science of the Microbiome.
-3.4. #Book: Dirt Is Good: Why Kids Need Exposure to Germs. After the birth of his second child, Gilbert, a scientist who studies microbial ecosystems, decided to find out what's actually known about the risks involved when children come in contact with germs. It turned out that most of the exposures were actually beneficial. So that dirty pacifier that fell on the floor — if you just stick it in your mouth and lick it, and then pop it back in little Tommy's mouth, it's actually going to stimulate their immune system. Their immune system's going to become stronger because of it. Dirt Is Good. The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System [Cover]. Why ‘Dirt Is Good’ for a Child’s Developing Immune System. [Photo].
↕4. Malaria Drug Protects Fetuses from Zika Infection. Zika virus infects the fetus by manipulating the body's normal barrier to infection, according to a new study of pregnant mice. Moreover, the study showed that a drug that interferes with this process protects the fetus from viral infection. That drug is already approved for use in pregnant women for other medical purposes. Watch for the following possibilities: Increases of sales of hydroxychloroquine, tonic water and quinine; Medical scams with natural Malaria or Zika natal pills and drinks, to include for infants who already have Zika neurological problemss; Pressure to rush FDA trials and “right to try”; Zika related racism; anti-vax about Malaria/Zika vaccines; Overdoses of pregnant women and babies from cures; Less incentive to develop a Zika vaccine and possibly control mosquitoes, especially with larvicides and GMO mosquitos. This may all happen before there is confirmation if the treatment works or not. If it does not work more time lost and more harm done, not to mention that people will continue to believe a medical scam because science keeps changing what is fact. [Poster, Poster, Ad, Ad]. 3.1↑. Biology's Roiling Debate over Publishing Research Early. New Journal of Negative Studies Announced. Researchers Are Sorry They Used 'Derpy' in a Research Paper.
-‡. Synthetic DNA Based Zika Vaccine Protects Against Damage to Testes in Preclinical Models.Human Rights Watch Says Brazil Is Risking New Zika Surge, International Risk of Yellow Fever Spread from the Ongoing Outbreak in Brazil, December 2016 to May 2017. Vaccines Protect Fetuses from Zika Infection, Mouse Study Shows. Experimental Vaccines Might Shield Fetus from Zika. Verily's Mosquito Factory Accelerates the Fight Against Zika. What Does Warming Planet Mean for Mosquito Bourne Diseases. Animal Study Suggests Vaccines Block In Utero Zika Transmission. Mosquitoes Found with Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus.
-4.1. Decline in Financing Could Undermine Malaria Efforts. More mosquito borne diseases, increasing range of mosquito, when the means to prevent or cure mosquito diseases is close, while concurrently there is an increasing size of vulnerable populations. Logical conclusion, this is the perfect time to cut funding. Much better to wait until it is a more devastating global problem, which will cost more to reverse. Then one can get bigger accolades for the solution. Stopping a problem before a draconian solution is needed has little political benefit, coming to the rescue from a dire situation (even if the same person is the reason for the situation) makes one a political hero. [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Photo]
-5. G20 Nations Pledge to Strengthen Health Systems, Combat Antimicrobial Resistance. Berlin Declaration of the G20 Health Ministers for Global Health Crises Management, Health Systems Strengthening, and Antimicrobial Resistance. Apparently despite the current US Government trends to withdraw from global health; deregulate health, environment, safety; cutting funds to capabilities and resilience; and in general to believe it does not suffer consequences from what harms the rest of the world; the US has not made as clear statement of withdrawal from the Global antibiotic issue as it did with the Paris Agreement 170702-9↓. Rebuking Trump on Climate, the G20 Proved “Soft Power” Works. Reinsurance Doesn't Help Us. [Cartoon]. 170618-3.1‡, 170521-11↓.
-5.1. To celebrate the launch of the Global Resilience Institute, What Does it Mean to Be Resilient (Video). New Research Says Many Pandemics Originate with Bats. Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World. Map Drawn to Predict next Virus Jump from Mammals'. Spillover Beasts: Which Animals Pose the Biggest Viral Risk.
-5.2. Did That New York Magazine Climate Story Freak You Out. Good. It’s okay to talk about how scary climate change is. Really. It’s about worst case scenarios, what is likely to happen if we do nothing to change our current greenhouse gas emissions. Turns out, it could get pretty bad, with diseases to starvation, dehydration, forced migration, and armed conflict. The Uninhabitable Earth [Art, Art, Art the anthropocene event layer]. Are We as Doomed as That New York Magazine Article Says. Alarmism Is the Argument We Need to Fight Climate Change. Are Humans Doomed. A Q&A with the Author of NY Mag's Terrifying Climate Change Story. Did New York Magazine Make its Climate Change Story Too Scary. [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon]. <ADDED>•170702-1.1‡↓. Giant Iceberg Breaks off Antarctica is not clear evidence of climate change, no more than snow in July is evidence against climate change. In Chile, Many Regard Climate Change as the Greatest External Threat.
-‡. Most Effective Individual Steps to Tackle Climate Change Aren't Being Discussed. Most Comprehensive Database on Past Global Changes Is Online. Warm Winter Events in Arctic Becoming More Frequent, Lasting Longer. Warmer Arctic Linked to Weaker Vegetation Growth in North America. Does the European Public Understand the Impacts of Climate Change on the Ocean. Greenland Ice Sheet Toxicity. Easter Island Not Victim of Ecocide, Analysis of Remains Shows. Surging Heat May Limit Aircraft Takeoffs Globally. Climate Change to Deplete Some US Water Basins Used for Irrigation. Climate Change and less Federal Money May Hit States Hard. ¶ Though there are already economic impacts from climate change this one that may begin to hit people who live in developed countries awareness that something is happening. Rising Temperatures Could Make Air Travel Even Worse, Rising Temps Could Bring Flight Delays Worldwide, Phoenix Flights Cancelled Because It's Too Hot for Planes.
-5.3. This indicates that reality TV has gone to far. EPA Chief Wants Scientists to Debate Climate on TV‡1. Possibly inspired by Trump Tweets a Video of Him Wrestling CNN to the Ground ‡2. If he is available I nominate Bill Nye 2 to debate this with Pruitt on TV, possibly using the format of a presidential or evolution debate [Cartoon, Meme, Poster, Cartoon]. If a wresting format is selected then I nominate Swamp Thing vs Bannon, DeVos, Perry, Price, Pruitt, Sessions, Zinke, and Mr Drain the Swamp C.1↓ himself, and the estimated 180 congressional climate deniers, to include all of their security teams (have to make it somewhat fair). This excepts DOD/National Guard and HLS ‡3 which are not in climate denial <ADDED> •170604-4.2C. 170604-4.2C↓, or the FBI who might have conflicts of loyalty 2 3, 170528-5.3↓. This is consistent with actions over the last few months, beyond those noted in Parademic Notes ‡4. A problem remains that is that there is no way to determine who wins, but likely those outside the conflict will lose. #Book Bill Nye the Science Guy Thinks You're Tying Your Shoes Wrong, Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem [Cover]. The curator of this blog is in agreement with the idea of everything in the context of everything else (holism), but I am unsure that it will solve any problem, especially if people are the problem.
-‡1. The Energy 202: What Would Be the Point of Pruitt's "Red Team-Blue Team” Climate Exercise, E.P.A. to Give Dissenters a Voice on Climate, No Matter the Consensus, EPA Intends to Form “Red Team” to Debate Climate Science, sounds like “teach the controversy” that is create a non-existent controversy. [Meme, InfoGraphic]. Reality Loser, Rick Perry, Says CO2 Doesn't Cause Global Warming, Perry Sees Climate Denial as Evidence of Being ‘Intellectually Engaged’, [Cartoon]. Climate Change Activists Are the Real Science Deniers. Psychology Today: Persuading Minds for Gun Control like Persuading Minds for Climate Change. Australia Warned it Has Radically Underestimated Climate Change Security Threat. What Conservatives Know about Climate Change That Liberals Don’t. [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon]. Interior Chief Zinke Begins Reorganizing Department, Moving Dozens of Senior Officials.
-‡2. Redditor Apologizes for Creating CNN Video Tweeted by Trump, Bill O'Reilly: How Trump Will Win His War Against the Media, CNN Story About Source of Trump Wrestling Video Draws Backlash, CNN Accused of Blackmailing Reddit User Behind Trump's Wrestling Meme.
-‡3. Is a More Prosperous World More Secure. Not as Trump Sees It. Defense Bill Calls Climate Change a National Security Threat. | Subcommittee Hearing: Examining DHS’s Misplaced Focus on Climate Change. Working with Regional Partners to Examine the Impacts of Climate Change. #Document Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. Four Great Ways for Local Public Health to Increase National Health Security. DHS to Congress: Climate Change a Threat Multiplier to Global Security. Human Fingerprints on Europe’s Recent Heat. <ADDED> •170702-10↓. ¶ Could a Tuberculosis Outbreak Happen Here, Protecting the United States from the Health Security Risk of Global Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Vaccine Passes Important Milestone – 170521-5.1, 170514-6, 170220-4P, 170212-3.1, 170129-4.1, 170122-1, 161016-9,160731-4D, 160724-7, 160703-4.1, 160612-4**, 160424-4.2↓+. ¶ Aid Not War – Can Foreign Aid Projects Help Improve National Security. Africa’s Missing Ebola Outbreaks. Cold war, dictators and cover ups – Ebola's secret history.
-‡4. EPA’s Scott Pruitt Is Trump’s Most Adept and Dangerous Hatchet Man. Climate Change, Our Biggest Threat, Can't Be Stopped at the Border. E.P.A. Bid to Roll Back Restrictions on Methane Is Blocked, EPA to Propose Cutting U.S. Biofuels Requirements in 2018. How Steve Bannon's Whiteboard Explains Donald Trump's Climate Decision. I’m a Climate Scientist. And I’m Not Letting Trickle down Ignorance Win. Groups See Climate Science Review as Chance to Undercut Regulation. U.S. to Speed Approval for Oil, Gas Exploration on Federal Land. Climate Change Will Also Exacerbate Wealth Inequality. Interior Chief Zinke Begins Reorganizing Department, Moving Dozens of Senior Officials. MIT Scientists Hit Back after Trump Uses Their Research to Justify Paris Climate Deal Withdrawal. <ADDED>•170709-6 •170702-1.1 -10↓. ¶ Some things are given attention simply because people are waiting to pounce Ivanka Trump Briefly Takes Father's Seat at G-20 Summit [Tweet, Cartoon]. Reminds one of Ebolaphobia [Cartoon] where the media with the opposite bias wasready to jump at the slightest mistake, or if none happened take a sound bite from days before an Ebola death in the US, and make it appear to be a serious mistake [Cartoon, Cartoon, Meme, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon]. C.2↓. ¶ White House Analysis of Health Bill Seeks to Discredit CBO, The White House Tweeted out a Video Attacking the CBO. It Spelled "Inaccurately" Wrong. This is just petty orthography. I don’t have any right to say anything about this given my frequent mispellings. Of course some of mine are intentional, or sic, or the words has multiple spellings, or the cupertino effect and use neologisms with errors for effect. Then again I don’t have a staff to collect, review, verify and edit, nor do I send out policy or publications for public consumption nor do I represent an organization or country. It is also possible the txtspk is The Normalization of Deviance at the White House. What Is it Called When Words Are Deliberately Spelled Incorrectly but Pronunciation Is Kept Unchanged. New Ophthalmology Intern Not Sure How to Spell Ophthalmology.
-6. #Document [Cover]. Public Health Preparedness and Response National Snapshot 2017. This year has shown us, once again, that we can't predict the next disaster. But it has also shown us clearly how being prepared protects health and saves lives. Emergencies can devastate a single area, as we saw with Hurricane Matthew, or span the globe, like Zika virus. Disasters from 9/11 to Ebola have demonstrated that we absolutely must have people, strategies, and resources in place before an emergency happens. CDC is committed to strengthening the nation's health security by protecting against public health threats, whether they begin at home or abroad, or if they are natural or man made. We know that when we don't respond quickly and to scale, outbreaks become epidemics, natural disasters become crucibles for illness, and the human toll of terrorist attacks can mount. Every response holds lessons on how to prepare for the next one. Today's interconnected landscape calls on us to invest, to innovate, and to remain flexible in our effort to safeguard the health and security of all Americans. [Chart].
↕C. Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) Corner [Logo]. Newsletter Archive. CDC health communication are showing a trend of being less frequent. [Chart] I would add an 8th, actually communicate and become known as a source that does the previous 7.
-C.1. ∩ Using the past election provides more understanding why corrections of non fact may change information people know, but not the behavior. An analogue for why people will accept medical scams and erroneous health advice that increase risk to themselves and others. Taking Corrections Literally But Not Seriously. The Effects of Information on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability. Are citizens willing to accept fact checks of false or unsupported claims of anecdotes, untested opinions, medical scams and conspiracy theories they support. Previous studies have reached conflicting conclusions about people’s willingness to update their factual beliefs in response to counter attitudinal information. Results indicate that correcting misleading claims reduced belief in the claims in question even among his. However, attitudes were not affected. These results suggest that corrective information can reduce misperceptions, but will often have minimal effects on evaluations or choice. 1) Motivated Resistance of unwelcome facts about controversial issues through mechanisms such as counter argument and source derogation. As a result, people exposed to counter-attitudinal corrective information will not come to hold more accurate views. Views could even become more inaccurate. 2) Differential Acceptance of unwelcome facts and update their beliefs to become moreaccurate, though the extent to which they update their beliefs may vary based on their prior attitude. 3) Attitude Consistent Interpretation will accept unwelcome facts, but interpret them in an attitude consistent manner. Trump Supporters Know Trump Lies. They Just Don’t Care 5.3↑. In essence this is the narrative process of Sharpening (what is emphasized or fabricated), Leveling (what is downplayed or ignored), Assimilation (a priori perceptions and interpretation). Reporting an Experiment: A Case Study in Leveling, Sharpening, and Assimilation. Close Enough 4. Rumor Theory, page 16. Pandemic Humor-1.4*1. [Chart, Cartoon]. 1.2↑.
-C.2. Trump's 'War on the Open Internet': Tech Firms Join Day of Action for Net Neutrality. Amazon, Facebook and Netflix among companies demonstrating on behalf of net neutrality, in what supporters say will be biggest online protest in history. Join the Battle for Net Neutrality. Comcast, Verizon and AT&T want to end net neutrality so they can charge extra fees to control what we see & do online. Russia Emulating Chinese Control of Internet. How Putin Keeps the Internet under State Control. How to Keep the Fight for Net Neutrality Going. Tech Giants Protest Proposed Changes to Net Neutrality Rules. This is a two edge sword, net neutrality is thought of as no judgement on what is posted no matter how inflammatory or wrong (speeding and spreading social contagion), but it is also a best and fastest source of information(possibly slowing or stopping spread of a contagion). Maybe it is not the Internet that is the problem, but people who use the Internet to get or provide information. [Cartoon, Meme, Cartoon, Cartoon]. Ebolaphopia The Problem with Ebola in the Media, A Tale of Two Epidemics: Media Reporting on Ebola, [Cartoon, Cartoon, Screen, Screen, ld HYPERLINK "http://media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/78/2014/10/18/155076_600.jpg" Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon], 5.3‡4↑.
- 170709-2: Well that did not have to be watched for very long. I personally don’t think that just because a company is involved that research is suspect, but when that information is withheld that is a conflict on interest. New CDC Chief Partnered with Coke in State Obesity Program. Mea Culpa. Orac Praised the New CDC Director for Her Provaccine Views, but Missed the Quackery in Her Past, Trump’s New CDC Director Is Very Pro-Vaccine, but Was She Also at One Time a Quack. New CDC Head Fitzgerald Peddled Controversial Anti-Aging Medicine Before Leaving Private Practice. 5.3‡4↑. This is partly self confirming information, that is the same information is being reported from a single source, but appears to be from different sources because different people are reporting it, giving the appearance on multiple sources verifying information. The use of the term quack in biasing. This is probably one reason why the current administration likes to rush through appointments, there is no time to do a background check by outside agencies.
- 170709-3: You’ve Heard of Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight? Somebody Wants to Bring Bayonets to an Epidemic. Cholera comes to Britain: October 1831.
- 170709-6: Can You Find Your Old List of Fallout Shelters. N. Korea's ICBM, If Fully Developed, Would Reach San Diego with Nuclear Warhead, Multiple Decoys. This however is a highly vulnerable and very costly system that does not have much value to a country’s population needs for food, water, health care, How Much Do ICBMs Cost. North Korea Launches Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Fear, Loneliness, and Duty — an American Journalist on Daily Life in North Korea. Why a Single Nuke's Impact Shouldn't Only Be Measured in Megatons, it could cause devastating climate change, resulting in widespread drought and famine that could cost a billion lives [Photo, Art, Art. Cartoon, Meme, Cartoon, Cartoon]. ¶ Iran’s Cartoonists Are Finding it Almost Too Easy to Mock Trump. And again the one with a nuclear theme are very tame compared to ones from the West [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon] and none apparently done by \fs24softlineIranians. It may not be a good idea in Iran to bring up the topic of nuclear weapons, Iran nuclear crisis: Six key points.. ‘Limited’ Nuclear Strikes Could Still Wreak Climate Havoc. Not Just Nukes: North Korea May Have One of the World’s Largest Biological and Chemical Weapon Stockpiles, Why the World Should Fear North Korea's Biological Weapons. Jul 16, 1945, Atom Bomb Successfully Tested.
- 170709-6.1: China Programme to Vaccinate Poultry Against Bird Flu Will Be Nationwide. How Live Animal Markets Create a Perfect Storm for Bird Flu. Canada: Medical Sleuthing Required in H5N1 Diagnosis (2014). Vietnam Reports Outbreak of H5N1 Bird Flu in North the geographic proximity to Southern China’s bird flu Influenza A H5N1 and H7N9 in China: A Spatial Risk Analysis may or may not be a factor. Flu does not respect borders, no matter if there is a wall and or armed border. I suppose the military could mount air defense operations against individual and flocks of birds crossing into a country’s airspace [Photo, Photo]. 50 Year Old Flu Virus Model Revamped, Revealing Pandemic Prediction Possibilities. A Flu Pandemic Is Coming, but When, and How Bad Will it be (In original stub there was a link to the whole magazine, Nightmare Scenario). ¶ We Must Do More to Protect Our Farms from Terror Threats. Then President Bill Clinton issued a presidential directive in May 1998 calling on most of the federal agencies to develop plans for protecting from attack the country's "critical infrastructures ... essential to the minimum operations of the economy and government". Inexplicably, the US Department of Agriculture wasn't on the distribution list. We must do a better job protecting agriculture from natural and man made attacks. There can’t be national security without a secure food supply.
- 170709-7: Prince Harry Hits out at 'Absurd' Lack of Youth Education on HIV. Expecting the Worst: People's Perceived Morality Is Biased Towards Negativity, People who are believed to be immoral are unable to reverse individuals' perception of them, potentially resulting in difficulties in the workplace and barriers in accessing fair and equal treatment in the legal system. If homosexuality is viewed as immoral, then this becomes the basis of stigma and hindering access and development of health care. 170709-2.
- 170709-7.2: Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction. Reading about the future can help you invent (or prevent) it.
- 170709-7A: UN: Yemen Unlikely to Get Cholera Vaccine as First Planned. Plans to ship as many as 1 million doses of cholera vaccine are likely to be shelved over security, access, and logistical challenges, even as the deadly caseload continues to balloon in parts of the war torn country. I doubt that the topic of forced humanitarian entry will be raised. Forced entry is the situation where medical access is denied and an armed breach is needed to provide the care needed and then evacuate people out. This is a complex humanitarian emergency, a euphonium for getting shot at while providing humanitarian aid. Cholera Vaccination Campaign in Yemen Is Dropped, U.N. Slams Warring Parties in Yemen for Fueling Cholera Outbreak, Cholera Vaccination Campaign in Yemen Is Dropped. In Yemen, 7 Million People Are on the Brink of Famine, FAO Director General Warns, Cholera May Accelerate Famine in Yemen as Resources Shift. WHO Warns of Cholera Risk at Annual Haj, Praises Saudi Preparedness. ¶ Assured Access: Building a Joint and Multinational Airborne Forcible Entry Capability. Ohio Abortion Clinic Access at Issue in Buffer Zone Proposal 2↑.
- 170709-7B‡: [Cartoon]. Marine Vessels Are Unsuspecting Hosts of Invasive Species. We must do a better job of protecting American agriculture from natural and man made attacks. There can’t be national security without a secure food supply. #Document When Rising Seas Hit Home – Hard Choices Ahead for Hundreds of US Coastal Communities. U.S. Rep. Keating's Flood Insurance Bill Would Encourage Mitigation, Savings.
- 170709-8A: The Pentagon Ponders the Threat of Synthetic Bioweapons. New Tool for the Synthetic Biologist's Toolbox Invented. Trump Appoints A Key Bioterrorism Position But Still Leaves Dozens Open 1 down 25 to go, President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to his Administration Robert P. Kadlec of New York to be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Preparedness and Response.
- 170709-9: More on the Politicization of School Vaccine Mandates. An Antivaxer Starts a Whitehouse.gov Petition for a Five Year Moratorium on Childhood Vaccines.
- 170702-1.1: In Rare Move, FDA Reverses Course on Drug Developed by CEO with Ties to Trump. FDA Deal Would Relax Rules on Reporting Medical Device Problems. House Panel Seeks to Block FDA Vaping Rule. Buried in Trump’s Executive Order on Drug Pricing Is a Windfall Clause for Pharma. FDA Gets Good Marks on Compassionate Use, Except for …. 5.3‡4↑.
- 170702-10: White House’s Dwindling Science Office Leaves Major Research Programmes in Limbo. President Trump's Projected Budget Cutbacks Could Undermine Homeland Security. House Funding Bill for DHS Follows Trump Plan to Cut Research and Science Offices. Md. Dems Resist Trump Administration Plan to Close Chemical, Biological Labs. 5.3‡3↑.
- 170618-3.2: No Offense, American Bees, but Your Sperm Isn't Cutting It. Insecticides Damage Bee Socialization and Learning Skills. The effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on bees has been widely covered in the news recently, with laboratory based studies suggesting that the chemicals are harmful, and field studies which are much less clear cut. Adding to current knowledge on the topic, new research published in the Journal of Apicultural Research further explores the effects that these chemicals may have on social behavior and learning in honey bees.
- 170611-3.2: Threats to Information Security – Public Health Implications. Iowa Hospital Unwittingly Posts 5,300 Patients' Data Online. Something not addressed often enough is not the protection of information from exposure, but the protection of the integrity of information. What if instead patient data is randomly scrambled mixing thousands of different records together, or actual intentional misinformation that would harm the patient.
- 170326-4.2A*: Doctor Shortage in Rural Arizona Sparks Another Crisis in Forgotten America. American Farmers Are Facing a Political Paradox Because of Republicans' Hard Line on Immigration. Iranian Scientist Traveling to Boston for Cancer Research Is Detained, Iranian Researcher Denied US Entry Has Ties to Militia. Steve King: Build Border Wall with Funds from Planned Parenthood, Food Stamps. Congress Has Forgotten America’s Biggest Health Care Problem, the critical question is not who gets care and who doesn’t, but how it’s delivered [Logo]. Rural Americans Already Have Poor Health Care. Trump’s Policies Will Hurt Further. Ecological Underpinnings of Rural Poverty, combines economic, ecological and epidemiological models.
- 170326-12: New Perspectives on the U.S. Corn Belt. The nighttime satellite(Search) photos of the Earth reveal much about the population distribution of the developed world through the intensity of the artificial lighting being observed. There is a parabola of cities surrounding the corn belt. The furthest east is Pittsburgh. The top half goes near Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Madison, and Minneapolis. The bottom part goes below Columbus to Cincinnati, between Louisville and Indianapolis, onto Saint Louis, and Kansas City. In the middle of the area is the largest city of the Midwest - Chicago.
- 170205-7: Chipotle Lawsuit over Food Safety, Outbreaks Is Dismissed. Nation’s Arteries Brace for Impact of Chipotle’s New Queso. Staying True to Their Identity, Chipotle Launches New Foodborne Illness Menu.
- 170129-6.1 -T.3.2: Dilbert Cartoonist Scott Adams Still Fails Basic Climate Science. [Strip (2017), Strip (2016) Strip (2011), Strip (2009)] The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science, Dilbert Tackles Climate Science Absurdity, Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale. Based Dilbert: How a Cartoonist Became an Alt-Right Hero.
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