Read This First 170423, Heuristics 170928, Glossary A-H, Mini Lessons 170827
1. Emotional Language, 2. Fire Maintains and Destroys, 3. BioDisaster Cognitive Dissonance, 4. Coffee and Cancer, 5. Pre Disaster Research, 6. Parachute Doctoring, 7. Influence vs Dogmatism, 8. NIMBY, 9. Cyberbiosecurity, 10. Zoombies, 11. School’s Out Forever, 12. Unsegregated Pollution, <ADDED -VCP, >1. Pertussis Resurgence, >2. Gender Medicine, >3. Language and Mind, >4. Historical Quack, >5. HIV, >6. PAHPRA, >7. Nestle Water, >8. Toxic Mining, >9. Julia, >10. Syndemic Fall of Rome.
Other Topics: BioTrumpism, BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, Denial, Autism, Exploitation, Antibiotic Resistance, Manage vs Control, Science Journalism, Criminalizing Disease, Quackery, Anti-Pesticides, Anti-GMO, Natural Myth, BioDefense, Fall of Rome, Anti-Science, Quick Fix, Ethics, Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), Prodigy, Linguistic Relativism, Don’t Say..., Cholera, Translation Error, Opioids, Sesame Street, Legal Issues and Opinions, Medical Surge, Talc, Coffee, Japanese Culture.
-Quote: From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it. – Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits, [Cover, Art].
-1. 'There’s More than Just Us Who Needs to Hear This.' this Is the Story Behind 'The Autism Song'. Included not because of autism, but the fact that though one may not understand the loss and grief related to having an autistic child, it is possible to find a way to empathize. Sadly this understanding also means finding ways to make exploit others pains as done by anti-vax. People Use Emotion to Persuade, Even When it Could Backfire. We intuitively use more emotional language to enhance our powers of persuasion, according to new research. People tend toward appeals that aren't simply more positive or negative but are infused with emotionality, even when they're trying to sway an audience that may not be receptive to such language. Trump Declares April 2 'World Autism Awareness Day'. Apr 2nd was declared Autism Day by the UN in 2008 there are other biotrumpism implications, 170521-2, 170402-3.2.
-2. Agricultural Fires Can Double Delhi Pollution During Peak Burning Season. Pollution may reach levels up to 20 times higher than safe limits. In October and November, a peak burning season in nearby Punjab, about half of all pollution in Delhi can be attributed to agricultural fires on some days, 180225-4. | To Prevent Collapse of Tropical Forests, Protect Their Shape. Scientists have made a fundamental discovery about how fires on the edges of tropical forests control their shape and stability*. The study implies that when patches of tropical forest lose their natural shape it could contribute to the catastrophic transformation of that land from trees to grass. Forest Fragmentation and Edge Influence on Fire Occurrence and Intensity under Different Management Types in Amazon Forests 2013. [Photo]. ¶ A Tricky Job Assessing the Vulnerability of Agriculture.
-*Quote: Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines. – Hideki Yukawa
-3. Flood Risk Denial in US Coastal Communities. Cultural anthropologists are working to identify flood prone locations, key individuals, and intervention strategies that lead to community based mitigation in US coastal communities. Rising sea levels have worsened the destruction that routine tidal flooding causes in the nation's coastal communities. On the U.S. mainland, communities in Louisiana, Florida and Maryland are most at risk. | When people's homes are damaged by flooding year after year and they are offered a buyout, why don't they leave. Cognitive dissonance theory is used to identify the rationales that residents employ to avoid having to make really difficult decisions – such as leaving. Cognitive dissonance theory says that individuals have a tendency to seek consistency in their beliefs. When encountering information that does not fit in with their beliefs, individuals seek to eradicate the discomfort caused by the inconsistency – or dissonance – by changing their beliefs, changing their behavior, or rationalizing to explain the inconsistency. These are consistently found in the denial that any biodisaster will eventually accelerate. Other behaviors that reflect cognitive dissonance are Feeling uncomfortable, Seeking or Avoiding conflict, Rationalization, Shame, Guilt, Ignoring facts. These end with predictable disaster. Some claim credit for being a great leader because of the effective response to a disaster, though usually leadership is defined as being first as in proactive, solving problems before they become a problem First Rising Seas, Now Land Degradation.
-4. Keep Drinking Your Coffee, Public Health Experts Say After Judge's Cancer Label Warning. The science doesn't really back up the ruling on California's law to require a cancer label on coffee. While rodents fed massive amounts of acrylamide do develop cancer, the ones in the study were dosed at rates 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than what humans consume in food. Legal opinions about science questions are just legal opinions; not science. Science Says: What We Know about Cancer Risk and Coffee, Are You Drinking a Steaming Cup of Cancer 2014, [Sign, Cartoon, Cartoon], Come On, California, Coffee Won’t Kill You. Coffee Drinkers at Far Higher Risk of Having Mug Crash to Floor in Slow Motion after Hearing Their Father Is Dead. | J&J Loses Trial over Claims Linking Cancer to Asbestos in Talc, <ADDED 171119-170813-6.1>7. The Nation Indulges in Fear Mongering about Cell Phones and Cancer, Cell Phones and Cancer: Random Chance in Clinical Trials.
-5. Preprints Accelerated Between Ebola and Zika Epidemics. Accelerating scientific research to counter infectious disease outbreaks: Pressing the pedal with preprints. Preprints – scientific manuscripts that are posted at a recognized online repository before peer review – have the potential to speed up the reporting of scientific research in infectious disease outbreaks. The scientific community should not ask why preprints are posted during outbreaks, we should ask why they are not posted and make early posting the standard rather than the exception. Preprints: An Underutilized Mechanism to Accelerate Outbreak Science. This is in part the purpose of Parademic. The curator watched in frustration as Ebola encountered unanticipated human factors, floundered about, misdirected effort, all while the information was already available. This was also one of the motivations to move Parademic to a publically available website.
-5.1. Apparent contradictions can lead to frustrations to those who insist on simple, clear and concise information. Federal Efforts to Control Rare and Deadly Bacteria Working versus The CDC Is Warning about Resistant "Nightmare Bacteria" Spreading Through the US.
The Nightmare Bacteria 2013, Origins and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance 2010, Superbug, Super Fast Evolution 2008. Penicillin was discovered in 1928 and in less than 100 years it is becoming ineffective because of the clash between biological fact and human ignorance (parademic), along with other antibiotics. Germs with Unusual Antibiotic Resistance Widespread in U.S. This is what is classified as a predictable surprise, hidden because of health access inequality, Neglected Infections of Poverty in the United States of America.
-Quote1: There may be a danger, though, in underdosage. It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant, page 93, 1945. – Alexander Fleming.
-Quote2: Of All the Forms of Inequality, Injustice in Health Is the Most Shocking and Inhuman. – Martin Luther King Jr.
-5.2. The Enduring Appeal (and Folly) of Disease Eradication. The simplicity of the idea makes it almost inarguable. But critics say there's a more practical (and viable) solution: improving health systems. What If We Eradicated All Infectious Disease 2012. Though theoretically possible, there is a high probability of unintended consequences, and there are practical issues. Do we know what microbes that cause human illness play in microbiomes, could it be that these keep worse microbes under control, do disease producing microbes fill an essential niche in human health. Not all disease causing microbes cause disease, depends of dose and where located in the body. We are only now starting to understand about the dangers of indiscriminate use of antibiotics, and the impact on the microbiome of the human gut. Could we still draw nutritional value from foods without certain microbes that are benign or helpful in the gut, but would kill you if it is introduced into other parts of the body. How can bad virus, germs, microbes be eradicated without killing the good ones, or sources of human needs that need those particular microbes. Do we really want to commit mass taxonomicide on a population that less the 1% are harmful to humans, Helpful and Harmful Types of Bacteria. One of Science’s Most Famous Quotes Is False.
-Quote: Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. – Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi. Lyrics Variations.
-5.3. Scientists and Journalists Square Off Over Covering Science and ‘Getting it Right’. Some scientists say they should have the right to review stories in which their work or words are covered prior to publication. Journalists disagree. Of Science, Certainty, and the Safety of Cell Phone Radiation. How to cover an issue when the stakes for human health seem so high, scientific questions still linger, and passions run so deep. If a Pharmaceutical Company Publishes a Magazine, Is it Journalism, that’s the nagging question for LeapsMag, a new science publication underwritten by Bayer, the pharmaceutical and agricultural sciences conglomerate; Is Bayer's New Magazine Real Journalism. | The Interstitium: Interesting Science Versus PR Spin and Pseudoscience, Is this Tissue a New Organ, Maybe. A Conduit for Cancer, it Seems Likely, The Previously Undiscovered Organ Known as the “Interstitium” Revisited: the Deepak Chopra Connection, Science and Pseudoscience of the Interstitium, right up, or down, there with Nuciform. | How We Think About Variation Is at the Heart of Our Scientific Literacy Crisis. We should stop worrying about the limits of human knowledge, and start worrying about wasting the knowledge we already have. New Standards for Journalists to Fight Fake News, but what about errors in science journalism, Conspiracy/ Pseudoscience [Scale], Pro Science (Factual Reporting: Very High, High, Mixed, Low, Very Low) Methodology, and for when you still don’t know Satire (Very High/ Poe’s Law, High, Mixed, Low, Very Low/ Fake), 7.1↓. Phony Baloney: The 9 Fakest Fake News Checkers. SciCheck [Logo]. ¶ Parademic is biased – not sure which way politically, or if those terms actually mean anything, but generally opposed to extinction – and mixes facke and satire. The topical area is behavior in the biodisaster context. Truth is relative to what people believe and will act or not act in accordance with what the think is reality. Reliability is based on in what way a source is reliable, not if it corresponds with scientific consensus, social norms, testable reality, and surprisingly frequently having internal consistency with itself.
-5.4. The Nation’s Biodefense. Five federal agencies – the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Defense, and Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency – play unique and key roles in helping to advance knowledge about biological threats. They use intelligence gathering, scientific research, and analysis to help identify and prioritize the most dangerous biological threats and guide biodefense investments. Unfortunately all these agencies are becoming seriously compromised and less able to effectively perform biosecurity and biodefense. U.S. Leprosy Budget Cut Closes Clinics, Threatens Research. A Rollback of DACA Would Undercut American Science, a large percentages of DACA recipients study or work in the sciences. In EPA’s Call for Transparency, Many See a Restriction on Scientific Research. Staff Changes in the Trump Administration Don’t Bode Well for Science, signaling the end of debate within the White House on how to approach – or ignore – the issue of global warming. Azar Tells Staff Trump Wants Big and Bold Health Care Changes. Kentucky Lawmakers Limit Black Lung Claims Reviews Despite Epidemic. Trump Budget Takes Aim at Climate and Environmental Science, Again. ¶ Anthrax Island - UK: (Scotland) Gruinard Island, Possible Purchase 171001-9 is humor that reflects the dread about concerns about Russia Steps up War of Words with Britain over Poison Attack, cyber manipulation -9↓ Russian Bid to Influence Brexit Vote Detailed in New US Senate Report, and two Russian Proxies Trump Tweets 'Big Price' after Reports of Syrian Chemical Attack, and the general uncertainty about chem/ bioweapons UK Warns Russia Not to Block Syria Attack Probe, 180311-6, 180121-5 or what policy is Trump Clashes with Military in Syria Pullout Push. The Logic of Assad's Brutality, possibly giving insight into intentional use of anti-bio agents.
-‡. Perspectives: VA Needs a Good Soldier to Change Dysfunction, Not a Talker at a Podium, Watch for Democrats to Hammer Trump's VA Pick on Privatization. Trump's Physician Tapped to Lead VA after President Dismisses Shulkin Following Weeks of Controversy, The Doctor Who Suddenly Got 9 Million Patients, Trump Ousts Shulkin from Veterans Affairs, Taps His Doctor, Who Is Ronny Jackson, Trump's Pick to Run Veterans Affairs, and nothing hinting about making a deal between the physical exam and being appointed. | The President Attacked My Reputation. It’s Time to Set the Record Straight, Fired Shulkin Warns of Privatizing VA, Rips Toxic Culture, Fired VA Secretary Says White House Muzzled Him, Fired VA Secretary Says Privatization Advocates Doomed Him, Ousted Shulkin Rejects White House Claim He Resigned VA Job. Whether Shulkin Resigned or Was Fired Goes Beyond Bickering – it Could Open Door to Legal Challenges. | Does Donald Trump Want to Privatize the VA, Trump Floats VA Privatization Despite Opposition of Veterans’ Groups, Trump Floats VA Privatization Despite Opposition of Veterans’ Groups, Trump’s Efforts to Privatize Veterans’ Care Causes Alarm, [Meme, Cartoon].
-5.5. Every highlighted word in this science article would cause negative reactions from anti-vax, anti-GMO, anti CRISPR/ Synthetic Biology, Natural Remedy. A Vaccine for Edible Plants. A New Plant Protection Method on the Horizon. Novel technologies are being sought to replace the traditional pesticides used to protect plants, particularly edible plants such as cereals. A new project is shedding light on the efficacy of environmentally friendly RNA based vaccines that protect plants from diseases and pests. Our Food Supply Is Being Poisoned with Vaccines [Photo]. Vaccinations Cause Allergies.
-6. Advice to Parachuting Docs: Think Before You Jump into Poor Countries. There can be unintended consequences when doctors and med students volunteer to improve local health care. A new position paper offers up ethical guidance. [Strip]. Prime directive: Listen to patients and don't assume anything. Ethical Obligations Regarding Short Term Global Health Clinical Experiences: An American College of Physicians Position Paper. Band Aid Approach [Art].
-7. Shaping Behavior, Not Changing Minds, More Effective in Boosting Vaccination Rates. While less than 3 percent of parents refuse to vaccinate their children, they can have an outsized impact on others via the media and other social networks. Others accept the science of vaccination, but fail to get the full course or get them on time. Changing behavior and making vaccination as easy as possible have been shown to be effective at increasing vaccination rates," she said. "Simply providing educational information to people about vaccines or trying to confront myths they might have heard about vaccines tend to be ineffective at changing vaccination behaviors and can sometimes backfire. People Can't Be Educated into Vaccinations but Behavioral Nudges Help, -VCP•USA↓.
-7.1. This item from a colleague at the One Health Commission’s Social Science Initiative. At 12, He Had a Viral Science Video. At 14, He Fears He Was Too Rude, when he [Screen Capture] critiqued those linking vaccines and autism, but he struggles like many science communicators with social media platforms that may favor a style that inflames. He aspires to be a science communicator, but faces the conundrum of internet audiences and algorithms that may prefer drama over scientific information 5.3↑. Ya Burnt. 12 Year Old Marco Arturo Responds to Attacks by Antivaccine Bloggers. Italy: Pro Vaccine Medics Call for Measles Doll to Be Withdrawn, it suffers from measles that can be cured with cream and plasters [Photo]. No Notice Incidents: Community Response and Media Management. Old Guard Antivaccine Activist J. B. Handley Loses His Best Platform to Spread Misinformation.
-8. Most Americans See Drug Addiction as a Disease. A slim majority of Americans see prescription drug addiction as a disease that requires medical treatment, but most would not welcome those suffering from the problem into their neighborhoods, workplaces or families. Besides a small majority preferring treatment to incarceration the majority still practice NIMBY (Not In My BackYard). They may want diseased people to be treated humanely, but still if the infection is contagious, expensive and lethal most want to be protected from it. Poll: Most Americans Wary of Those Suffering from Addiction, Despite Recognition of Medical Condition. ¶ Ordering Five Million Deaths Online. Medicare officials have announced plans to crack down on prescriptions for opioids in an attempt to limit their use and thus their damage. But making it harder for people to get pain medication legally will most likely drive many to seek relief from far more dangerous and superpotent synthetic opioids. And they are surprisingly easy to obtain. FDA Chief: Big Players in ‘Internet Ecosystem’ Need to Do More to Curb Illegal Online Opioid Sales. With Congress’ Purse Strings Newly Loosened, Pharma Poised to Make a Lot of Money from Opioid Fight. How Advertising Shaped the First Opioid Epidemic.
-8.1. NIMBY becomes a real issue in large area condensed time biodisasters. There may not be many options to deal with refugees, provide treatment, isolate thiose who are infectious and contaminated. Planning needs to include the consideration of how a community or nearby locals well react to large numbers of these people being near them and likely using the same facilities that are used by locals, or facilities they can no longer use because of the biothreat – schools, churches, mass transportation, shows, warehouses, hospitals. Medical Surge and the Role of Urgent Care Centers. Then there are legal issues Emergency Legal Preparedness and Response, Topic Collection: Healthcare Related Disaster Legal/ Regulatory/ Federal Policy. Parademic analogues’ are halfway houses, Counteracting Not in My Backyard: The Positive Effects of Greater Occupancy Within Mutual Help Recovery Homes, and the storage of nuclear waste: Reinterpreting Locational Conflicts: NIMBY and Nuclear Waste Management in Sweden. NIMBY: Nevada Says Not in My Back Yard on Trump Revival of Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump. On Nuclear Waste, Voters Say: Not In My Backyard 2015. NIMBY Rules: The Yucca Nuclear Waste Decision Is Disappointing 2009. Radioactive Nimby: No One Wants Nuclear Waste 2007.
-9. Have had stubs on this topic for years but finally have a name for the interaction of biothreat and cyberthreats [Graphic] -5.4↑. Cyberbiosecurity: An Emerging New Discipline to Help Safeguard the Bioeconomy. Cyberbiosecurity is being proposed as a formal new enterprise which encompasses cybersecurity, cyber physical security and biosecurity as applied to biological and biomedical based systems. In recent years, an array of important meetings and public discussions, commentaries and publications have occurred that highlight numerous vulnerabilities. Unfunny Comics: Graphic Depictions of Cyber Threats. Wonder if there will ever be cyber(en epi pan syn)demic [Chart, Chart]. Overall the field of cybersecurity is still playing catch up, responding to threats after they happen though often times identified years before, not considering human factors, not hardened to internal and external radiation emissions, no where close to being part of full spectrum security and being all hazard.
-10. Zombie like Raccoons Are Terrorizing Youngstown, Ohio. The rogue raccoons are in all likelihood gravely ill, probably with a viral illness known as distemper. As the disease progresses to the nervous system, more severe symptoms – among them convulsions, seizures and paralysis – begin to manifest. Though some of the symptoms are similar to rabies, the diseases are not the same. The Youngstown raccoons’ odd behavior can likely be ascribed to brain damage caused by the virus. Distemper often affects dogs and the virus can also infect wild animals, like foxes, wolves, coyotes, tigers, and raccoons. Distemper is spread through contact with bodily fluids and feces. Canine distemper outbreaks in local raccoon populations can signal increased risk for pet dogs in the area. Trapping infected raccoons and euthanizing them is the only way to keep the number of sick animals down. [Photo]. Example of sensationalizing a public health advisory of a zoonotic disease. Probably has to be done to get any circulation when opioids are called an epidemic, migrants (legal or not) are made out as a source of contamination, an EPA that is anything but. #Book Zombie Raccoons & Killer Bunnies [Cover]. This is still a vague dread, but over the years an icon of feral animals in abandoned urban areas and after disaster are becoming more common. There is something unsettling about non domesticated animals in former anthromes, [CGI, Photo]. Why Wild Animals Are Moving into Cities, and What to Do about it. What Happens to Pets after a Natural Disaster. 170924-1, 170108-7.1. He Thought Something Was Wrong with the Raccoon. Then it Stood on its Hind Legs. | Birds Open Bottles And Catfish Hunt Pigeons When #Book Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution [Cover].
-11. Impact of biodisaster on education. Louisiana Kids Return To School, A Bubble Of Normalcy After Massive Floods. Back to School 1946 Meant Return to Normalcy. Main Job for Schools after North Texas Tornadoes: Restore Kids’ Routine. | For Puerto Rico's Children, Finding a Safe Place in the Few Schools That Are Open. Puerto Rico to Close 283 Schools amid Sharp Enrollment Drop after Hurricane, Economic Crisis, In Puerto Rico, School Closings Hit Families, Communities Hard. Puerto Rico Running out of Time as Storm Season Nears. Few things say returning to normal than the icon of the school bus, safety, going to school, continuity, especially if paired with other cultural referents, [Photo, Meme, Icon]. In biodisaster there is also the possibility of attrition of students, teachers and outside aid for recovery FEMA Moving to Change Its Service Delivery Methods for Disasters.
-12. Environment Worse for All Races in Segregated Areas. A half century ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King preached that segregation was harmful not only to Black Americans but also to the nation as a whole. He died before the modern environmental movement, but a growing body of research around pollution and health shows that his belief about segregation hurting everyone extends to the environment as well. Many American cities that are more racially divided have higher levels of pollution than less segregated cities. As a result, both whites and minorities who live in less integrated communities are exposed to higher levels of pollution than those who live in more integrated areas. H5N1 Comment: One lesson this blog has taught me is that when culture and health collide, health usually loses. Some people will defend their culture to the death. And they do.
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-VCP>. News Archive↕: (Not in VCP) • Pakistan: Anti-Polio Drive to Focus on Refusal Cases. Probably not a good idea in an area that has seen attacks on polio workers to announce times, place and who will be focused on. • Romania: Measles Epidemic: Baby Dies, Death Toll Reaches 46. This is not the link used by VCP. The Washington Post is deemed reliable but only allows a few views each month without subscription which causes problems for research on the Internet. Most of its stories are from other sources. • (Venezuela: At Least 70 Children Dead in Venezuela Measles Outbreak, <ADDED 180401-180311-11>4¶. Venezuela Exodus, 800 Venezuelans Flee to Brazil Daily to Escape Insecurity, Hunger. The Collapse of the Venezuelan Health System). • Slovakia: Vaccination Holes Threaten the Return of Diseases, parents often do not vaccinate their children when there is a low occurrence of a disease. Maybe we should talk about measles deserts. • (Global: There may be a pattern here with measles, a vaccine preventable disease that was nearly eliminated in much of the world, [Tweet, Map [Tweet]). • Greece: 2345 Suspected Measles Cases Reported as of April 1, travel warning for un-vaxxed. • France: Mandatory Vaccines: How Do Day Nurseries Prepare. France Measles Outbreak Update, follows predictions. Original has disappeared but nothing sinister as rapidly changing information is deleted to avoid confusion. • Philippines: After Dengvaxia Scare, Measles Cases Soar to 598, predictable surprise will be another transported case to the US and other countries. • Thailand: Doctor Stands Firm on Bird Flu Warning amid Govt Denials 180401-5.1. • USA: (Quoth Antivaccine “Warrior Mamma” Brittney Kara: If Vaccines Are So Great, Why Aren’t They Mentioned in the Bible, You Are Going to Hell, Crowd Erupts after Vote to Make it Harder to Skip Vaccines) makes one doubt anything will work, People Can’t Be Educated into Vaccinations, but Behavioral Nudges Help -7↑. The Psychology of Fake News 180401-1.
-180401-5.2>1. The Pertussis Resurgence. A new analysis shows that the resurgence of pertussis is largely due historical patterns of vaccination. This and other data show the importance of full vaccine compliance in preventing returning epidemics of this deadly disease.
-180401-7>2. #Cultural Competence Female Medics Rushed to Help a Man Who Collapsed in a Sumo Ring. They Were Promptly Told to Leave. Female medics attempting to save the life of a Japanese mayor who collapsed in a sumo ring were ordered to get off the stage, which is considered a sacred space from which women are banned. The Japan Sumo Association subsequently issued an apology. The response was inappropriate considering that someone’s life was in danger. I am deeply sorry. | Deeply Sorry has nuances of meaning in Japanese that gives different meanings than the English two meanings of sarcasm or regret. | This also illustrates that in Japan female health professionals don’t have the same special status to ignore gender roles when they are caring for a patient. A similar incident in the US would have ended with the JSA cowering from experiencing verbal kōgeki and probably some from of Gyōji Sashi Chigae (3rd paragraph). | There will be non public discussions (mono-ii: a talk about things) concerning this incident. The likely solution that will cause the least embarrassment to all parties will be to never have female medics providing medical support at Sumo events. | In theory the Shinpan could have countermanded the order for the female medics to leave, but being a consensus society that would not have been timely, and as this was during a speech the judges may not have been present. The women made the right decision to leave for this particular context. If they had appealed or ignored the order other medical response would be delayed and they may have been physically removed. It is also possible they would have lost their jobs (for other reasons) if they had continued medical care. By leaving the area immediately male medical response could arrive that much faster as they could not enter and provide help if there was still a polite discussion going on, or if the women had remained. | If a male Gaijin had been there they might have interfered and insisted of letting the medics do their jobs. That may seem like the right thing to do, but would have delayed arrival of medical care and transport even longer. | Other culturally appropriate solutions include: Declaring the area no longer a Dohyō (which are rebuilt for each tournament anyway); Polite fiction that the shoes and clothing of the medics are protection from contaminating others so they were not contaminating the space; An approved cover for a walkway that can provide a path to the victim while being a barrier to outside contamination and holds the sacred space in place. This may have already been on in place to allow the mayor to speak from the dohyō or done simply casting some straw from the tawara into the ring. That would have to be done with care so there is still straw around the ring or the site would have to be abandoned for any future tournaments; Casting lots of salt around to banish evil spirits; Being escorted to the mayor by a senior male aide of the mayor. These are all a priori solutions, but will have to be considered by the JSA first. These cannot be suggested or performed by an outsider, but someone who belongs can make the suggestion as if it were their own even if it was just said within hearing of all present by an outsider, or behind a closed rice door [Photo]. Hikikomori: Japanese Men Locking Themselves in Their Bedrooms for Years, Creating Social and Health Problem. Japanese: A Heavily Culture Laden Language -180325-1.1¶↑.
-180325-1.1¶>3. #Linguistics Scientists Probe an Enduring Question: Can Language Shape Perception. The idea that language can shape perception and thought – a hypothesis formally known as “linguistic relativity”, harkens back to the 1930s. This hypothesis asserts that language doesn’t just express ideas, it actively shapes them, determining how we understand the world around us. Initially met with great interest, this idea fell out of favor by the 1960s due to a lack of scientific evidence. This concept is one used in Parademic. Likewise unable to prove or disprove if either the soft version of influencing thought or the hard version that language determines thought. Does not matter though if this is proved or disproved. If someone believes it is true, such as when a medical situation violates social norms 180401-7>↓, or biotrumpism, then it is true.
-‡. How Trump and His Team Are Trying to Change Politics Through the Use of Language, 180225-5.3, 180107-5.1, <ADDED 180107-171217-9.3>2, <ADDED 171224-171217-9.3>4, 171217-9.3 et al, <ADDED 171112-171015-3>1A, 170813-5.1, 170806-1.1, 170528-1.3, 170423-8.1, 170416-7.1.
-A. Where Have You Hidden the Cholera. Violent responses to public health interventions have become a tragically familiar part of health crises around the world. | Every year since 1998, cholera season in Mozambique has brought a rash of violence that spreads like the disease itself. Convinced they are being poisoned by the people treating their water, farmers and fishermen across northern provinces attack the health workers trying to prevent cholera’s spread and the machinery of their efforts. Government nurses have been beaten and bound with rope. Health centers have been burned to the ground as angry crowds blocked roads demanding to know, “Where have you hidden the cholera?” They are still waiting for an answer. Explanations for the violence often center on a simple misunderstanding: that the Portuguese words for chlorine, or cloro, and cholera, cólera, are close enough to cause confusion. Imagine a health team from outside the community shows up during an outbreak to spread messages on cholera prevention, and an agent will say, “o get rid of cholera, we need chlorine”. “The people are perplexed. They think chlorine causes cholera.
-180311-2>4, <ADDED 180401>3. Five Questions for Lydia Kang. The physician and best selling author talks about her newest #Book Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, on insanely bad medical practices throughout history [Cover]. When Celebrities Talk Science. The actress Zooey Deschanel cites pesticide use in advising Facebook users to avoid certain non organic produce. Is that scientifically sound advice.
-180304-6>5, <ADDED 180325>8. [Strip, Strip, Strip, Strip, Strip, Strip]. Surprise Can Be an Agent of Social Change. Surprising someone – whether it's by a joke or via a gasp inducing plot twist – can be a memorable experience, but a less heralded effect is that it can provide an avenue to influence people. | Creating Criminals: The Misguided Crackdown on HIV/AIDS. A vindictive, unscientific campaign against people with HIV fueled mass incarceration and racial injustice, #Book Punishing Disease: Turning People with HIV into Criminals [Cover]. | Popular Gay Dating App Grindr Is Disclosing its Users' HIV Status to Outside Companies, Grindr Will No Longer Share Users’ HIV Information in Order to Allay People’s Fears.
-180301-5.4>6, <ADDED 180304>1. Do We Want Another Spanish Influenza Epidemic. Reauthorizing Preparedness Act Could Prevent it. This year is the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic. It comes with the disturbing realization that the impacts of a similar outbreak would be even more catastrophic today, in a world made smaller and more crowded by trade, travel and explosive population growth. Over the last decade, however, cuts in funding for hospital and public health programs have diminished resources and capacities to identify and contain infectious disease outbreaks. Rising costs of graduate medical education, combined with disparities between public sector and private salaries for physicians have resulted in fewer physicians applying to the EIS fellowship program. Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act. ¶ Unsure if this is related to PAHPRA or the undermining of HHS’s mission but currently there is currently a move to rename PHE.gov. Choices are EmergencyHealth.gov, HealthSecurity.gov, and DisasterHealth.gov. Though different words, all have similar implications on changing perspective.
-180204-6.4>7. Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite 80K+ Public Comments Against It. <ADDED 180218-180204-6.4>5.
-170827-5.3A>8, <ADDED 180311>12, Amid Calls for a U.S. Uranium Mining Renewal, Recalling Its Toxic Past. There is little evidence that new production would be more reliably regulated, leaving the poorest communities bearing the brunt yet again.
-170528-5.2>9, <ADDED 171224>9: Sesame Place Becomes First Theme Park to Be Designated a Certified Autism Center.
-160320-13>10, <ADDED 171231>2. When Rome Fell, the Chief Culprits Were Climate and Disease. ¿Sound Familiar?. Pundits who blame 21st century style moral rot miss the big picture, a new #Book The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire [Cover] argues. Against plague and drought, the empire never stood a chance. 180121-1.
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