Read This First 170423, Heuristics 170928, Glossary A-H, Mini Lessons 170827
1. Social Mapping, 2. Geographic Triage Dilemmas, 3. Syrian Chemical Attack, 4. Biocalamitas, 5. Social Science for Public Health, 6. 93 Days, 7. Bioevent Economics. <ADDED >VCP, >1. 2nd Wave, >2. Nonverbal Communication, >3. Risk Map, >4. Border Control, >5. Video Funerals, >6. Ocean Pica.
Other Topics: BioTrumpism (Trumpogenic), BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, Ebola, Cordon Sanitaire, Social Media, Antibiotic Resistance, Narrative, Bio/Chem Weapons, Anthropology, Pollution, Flint Water, Witch Hunts, Correlation ≠ Causation, Pruitt, Left of Outbreak, Iconic Extinction, Supply Chains, Memorials, Migrant Health, Syria, Othering, Propaganda, Disinformation, March for Science, PolyCalamitas, BioCalamitas, HIV, Anti-Vax Hypothesis,
-1. Using social media to track and as early warning of disease outbreaks is being developed. This opens the possibility of going an extra step and identifying clusters of anti-vax -1.1, -180325-4↓, poverty 180408-5.1, 180401-2‡, +↓↓ or other vulnerabilities and what attitudes, cooperation and resistance are likely in a community, that will either hinder of facilitate containment and control* -VCP*↓, 170730-11. f2 Spoken Language Reveals How People Develop and Mature. Study of everyday language and ego level to better understand the state of moral, social and cognitive development. Brief text samples give insights of ego level and language sheds light on ego development, its relationship with other models of personality and individual differences, and its utility in characterizing people, texts and cultural contexts. If ego development can be scored from everyday language, then text from Twitter feeds to political speeches, and from children's stories to strategic plans, may provide new insights into the state of moral, social and cognitive development. This describes a narrative -3, -6.1↓ that appears in several different media, to include social, that comes in waves, recycles previous themes, has associated iconic images and distributed by informal means along social networks. Note that narrative propagation is similar from biological and social contagions, -4, -180401-5.1↓. 170220-5.
-*. A third area for tracking and early warning is superbugs, <ADDED 180401-180325-4>2, 180325-4, <ADDED 180318-170910-10>. The Town That Breeds Resistance to Malaria Drugs. Pailin is a small settlement nestling in tropical rainforest near Cambodia's border with Thailand. It is an unassuming town that lies at the centre of one of the country's main logging areas. Pailin harbours secrets, however. It was in this town, in the late 1970s, that the Khmer Rouge set up one of its main strongholds and ruled Cambodia with a ferocity that caused at least two million deaths. It is a grim legacy, by any standards.
-1.1. Vaccination Apathy Fueled by Decades of Misinformation -1↑, -180401-5.1 -A↓. A legacy of social and political factors rather than bad parenting may be influencing people's decisions not to vaccinate the ir children. Unsure if this A- is an actual phenomena or a form of vax fatigue. This quieter (or simply tired of it) avax could get drowned out in the passion between the strident pro and anti-vax. New Kids’ Book Enrages Anti-Vaxxers, Anti-Vaccine Reviewers Target Children's Books on Amazon. The last may appear under the headline Ick: Amazon Reviews Become a Battleground for the Anti-Vaccine Debate. With the ease of electronic media to update and improve stories it is not unusual that a headline may differ from what is listed in the notes, and may not be the exact article that was seen when originally posted. Measles Witch Hunt: Anti-Vax Parents Burned at the Propaganda Stake, This Comic Strip Is the Definitive Smackdown to Anti-Vaxxers Everywhere. ¶ Unknown if there is any relation to Paging Doctor Amazon: The Impact of Tech's Assault on Healthcare, or Clinton Treasury Secretary Compares Trump's Attacks on Amazon to Mussolini. One lesson: Social media play a bigger role in bringing people to fake news sites than they do in bringing them to real news sites. Separating Factual from Fake Messages During a Crisis. Is it Time You Went on a Social Media Detox. Fingerprints of Russian Disinformation: From AIDS to Fake News and can aggravate biodisasters and parademics, even creating them as seen with the misleading information of anti-vax, -VCP•Croatia↓.
-1.2. Despite High Hopes for Polio Eradication, Discouraging News Is Piling up. Every year for the past few years, supporters of the global effort to wipe out polio have made an optimistic declaration: This could be the year that polio ends. And this year, the 30th anniversary of the launch of the ambitious program, was no exception. But just three months into 2018, the projection is less rosy. Gee, I thought I had been sharing articles about how polio eradication was not going well for years. It is not uncommon for journalism headlines to imply that something being reported is new. ¶ A Simple Tool for Doubling down on Disease Control. Amid Fear and Guns, Polio Finds a Refuge. Wild poliovirus clings to a tenuous existence in areas like those haunted by Nigeria’s Boko Haram 180304-3.1‡•Nigeria, where eradication is costly, dangerous, and urgent.
-2. Geoengineering Risks Losers as Well as Winners for Climate and Wildfire Risks. Artificially altering the climate system to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could increase the risks of wildfires in some areas. This raises some interesting dilemmas. Choosing to allow some areas endure megafires is akin to having to decide to break levy to flood farmland and cause other destruction to save a high population urban area, or worse to completely isolate an area with a raging disease to prevent is spread. In contemporary urban conditions Cordon Sanitaire is rarely effective in the long term, and leaves the political consequence of leaving people to die. Heartless but Effective: I've Seen 'Cordon Sanitaire' Work Against Ebola, Cordon Sanitaire Drawn Around Ebola Victims. | Part Two: A Virologist's Tale of Africa's First Encounter with Ebola. Naming killer viruses after specific places can be very stigmatizing; with Lassa virus, discovered in 1969 in a small Nigerian town of that name, it had caused no end of problems to the people from the locality. Calling viruses after rivers was thought to takek some of the sting out of geographical finger pointing. It was what he had done when he’d discovered Machupo virus in Bolivia in 1959, and it was clear that night that he had every intention of doing the same in Zaire. The closest river to Yambuku was called Ebola – Black River seemed suitably ominous. Actually there’s no connection between the hemorrhagic fever and the Ebola River. Indeed, the Ebola River isn’t even the closest river to the outbreak. But in our fatigued state, that’s what we ended up calling the virus: Ebola.
-3. Incidents like Dozens Dead in Possible Gas Attack in Syria; Regime Denies Allegation, add to evolving narratives -1↑, -6.1↓ about use of chem/bio weapons [Cartoon] -VCP*↓. It also leads to self reflection How the Death of 6,000 Sheep Spurred the American Debate on Chemical Weapons. The Dugway sheep incident of March 1968 made visible the military’s covert attempts to test and stockpile millions of dollars worth of chemical weapons. 180121-5. | Trump's Syrian Whiplash, 180408-5.4, as pointed out in 180401-2‡, <ADDED 180318-180311-2>1, 180301-1.3, biotrumpism (possibly trumpogenic is a better term) is not directly the cause of biodisaster. So far only creates conditions that may lead to a bioevent, create conditions that accelerate already in progress biodisasters, and dismantling of the capabilities to respond to disasters of all types, to include public health.
-‡. This Is What it Would Take to Turn a Virus into a Weapon. UN Security Council Holds Emergency Meeting After Suspected Chemical Attack in Syria. Russia Says Alleged Chemical Attack in Syria Staged by UK. U.S., British, French Air Strikes Target Syrian Chemical Capabilities, These Are Syria's Chemical Weapons. Here's How to Destroy Them. Due to the very nature of chemical weapons, an explosive attack would spread lethal agents over a wide area, meaning more civilian casualties. Trump Claims Success in Syria, but Chemical Weapons Remain. [Tweet]. | Children Face the Greatest Danger from Chemical Weapons [Photo], or just plain old pollution, The Fatal Costs of Kinder Morgan, Flint School Children to Be Screened for Effects of Lead after Agreement, Lead Crisis: Flint Braces as Michigan Shuts down Free Bottled Water Sites, In Flint, Residents Scramble to Get the Last Cases of State Provided Bottled Water. For All They Know, amid government ignorance and equivocal science, Flint residents mold their lives around perpetual crisis and endless unanswerable questions. How to Remain in Control of a Crisis: However Strange the Cause. Occasionally an incident is so unusual that it would have been almost impossible to predict. The Italian restaurant chain Zizzi, was impacted by the Salisbury nerve agent attack, 180325-6.1‡. ¶ Your Body is a Teeming Battleground. It’s time to rethink the quest to control aging, death, and disease – and the fear of mortality that fuels it. How Do We Control Dangerous Biological Research, Why Has Not There Been More Research of Concern.
-3.1. Making the World Safer from Health Threats. Amb. Deborah Birx explains why today, thanks to American leadership and the generosity of the American people, much of Africa has a far more robust health care capacity and infrastructure to not only address HIV/AIDS, but also to prevent, detect, and respond to other public health threats. This is largely because of PEPFAR. Are We Ready for the Next Outbreak. Both of these strike me as self congratulatory and unrealistic assessments of current and future capabilities. The trend of the current administration is to cripple public health and disaster response and pre polycalamitas -4↓ capabilities, both internationally and domestically: Recent failures and continued cutbacks, 180408-11; Perversion of EPA [Cartoon] and Department of the Interior lain [Cartoon] to become irresponsible, anti-science, for profit no matter the costs agencies, -5.1↓, Scott Pruitt’s Civilization Threatening Lie, Attacking Scott Pruitt as a Climate Change Denier Only Hurts Alarmists’ Crusade [Meme, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon]. As Pruitt’s Industry Ties Hold Strong, EPA Rollbacks Continue. Unclean at Any Speed: Pruitt’s Attack on Obama Auto Pollution Rule, -180401-5.1↓, <ADDED 180401-180304-6>5; Continued undermining of HHS to serve anti-medical ethics and other reactionary evangelical* political agendas <ADDED 180408-180301-5.4>6, HHS Official Placed on Leave over Comments Promoting Pizzagate, HHS Expands Health Plans That Don’t Comply with the ACA, Two HHS Officials Leave Family Planning Office amid Changes, Planned Parenthood CEO: Kushner Said Funding Depended on Stopping Abortions, Will the Trump Tariffs on China Raise Drug Prices for Americans, Trump health officials rewrite big Obamacare rules; and, The troubling recent reorganization of USAID, USAID Chief Unveils Major Organizational Shakeup, USAID Unveils OMB Approved Reorganization Proposal to Staff. These trends are likely to continue and will take years to repair, but in the meantime the losses will be permanent, and possibly with irreversible consequences. *Dunning/Kruger Evangelism: Superiority Complex. People Who Claim Superior Beliefs Exaggerate Their Own Knowledge, -180401-5.1>1↓.
-3.2. Anti-Immigrant Prejudice Linked to Mortality Risk. One of the defining elements of the 2016 election cycle was its focus on immigration. One aspect of immigration did not figure in the discussion: When it comes to mortality, US born individuals of immigrant descent fare much worse than their foreign born counterparts. The U.S. Has Accepted Only 11 Syrian Refugees this Year, The US Has All but Slammed the Door on Syrian Refugees, Why Do People Come to the US, click on Safety. | Medical facilities or equivalents are considered sensitive areas for arresting people for deportation. This does not mean it can’t be done but there are conditions that should be met before doing so. Law and guidance are vague, with limited court decisions, so the discretion is left to the agent and field office who may be uninformed about medical consequences to individuals and the community, U.S. Border Agents Seen on Video Trying to Deport a Man Who Looks Mexican, and is injured. One can imagine some scenarios during negative parademics, such as Ebolaphobia, that would have caused more than just bad publicity <ADDED 171001-170903-10>6. Imagine the same behaviors if there was an actual infectious agent and contagious people were not seeking medical care to avoid deportation, Immigration Crackdown Raises Fears of Seeking Health Care, 170423-10.1. | Justice Department Will Pause a Legal Advice Program for Detained Immigrants, Trump Administration Pauses Legal Orientation for Immigrants. Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census Would Be Disastrous for Public Health, Trump Officials Strain Truth on Census Change, A Citizenship Question on the Census May Be Bad for Your Health, Citizen Question on Census Reveals Partisan Divide among AGs, and these correlate with state governments that oppose immigration, health expansion, reproductive health, environmental regulation, gun control, in other words are biotrumpist; 171015-6, -180311-11>4↓. How Trump’s Border Wall Could Impact the Environment <ADDED 180401, ADDED 180128-170924-1>, Congress Is Quietly Letting Trump Bulldoze a Butterfly Refuge to Build a Border Wall, <ADDED 180218-180211-9>4, Protest Set for Wildlife Refuge at Ground Zero of Border Wall Plan, <ADDED 171015-170917-7>8, Border Wall Would Slice Through Wildlife Refuges, Cut off U.S. Territory [Cartoon], <ADDED 170730-170716-5.3>, [Quote].
-A. Othering and Being Othered in the Context of Health Care Services. Othering is a process that identifies those that are thought to be different from oneself or the mainstream, and it can reinforce and reproduce positions of domination and subordination. Researchers lack othering practices that influence the interactions between patients and health care providers. Three forms of othering were found in informants' descriptions of their problematic health care encounters: 1) Essentializing explanations: Overgeneralizing about such things and culture, race, location, social backout and health care practices. In lay terms this is called elitist prejudice; 2) Culturalist explanations: Reasoning the sub care is based on cultural or personal characteristics of the patient (gender roles, superstitious beliefs, ignorance, resistance), not barriers created by the system of health care. The term that comes to my mind is blaming the patient; 3) and, Racializing explanations: Veiled reference to culture, ethnicity and personal characteristics. To me this is covert 1 and 2. Racial bigotry is still the same no matter how dressed up. My own observation is xenophobia, having an unreasonable fear of The Other, those who are not us – not always a baseless fear, 180401-7* – is a better explanation than race hatred, albeit fear can lead to hate. In the medical context this is stigma related to currently or having had certain diseases. Othering in the Nursing Context: A Concept Analysis. Reflections on Othering, Oppression, and Why Inclusion Matters. For National Geographic, an Exploration of Race (and Commercial Opportunity). The magazine’s spotlight on race comes coupled with the peddling of branded genetic testing kits seems odd, even downright cynical. How to Recover from a Cultural Faux Pas.
-4. Have been using syndemic to mean combination of disasters, but given that it does have a technical medical meaning of multiple diseases and social factors that contribute to those. For parademic switching to poly_calamitas -3.1↑. Also have decided to reject “disaster”, which is based on outdated beliefs about bad stars influencing life. Will be using biocalamitas to replace biodisaster. Both Poly and bio calamitas can include syndemic, but syndemic is limited to pathogens. Of Mice and Moisture: Rats, Witches, Miasma, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion -1, -1.1↑, -180401-5.1, -180304-6>5↓.
-4.1. Novel idea to The Race to Find the Next Pandemic - Before It Finds Us. In the past, discovery of a new deadly viruses was typically when they overwhelmed the healthcare system. A new initiative is trying to do things differently.
-5. Anthropology in Public Health Emergencies: What is Anthropology Good for. Recent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (2013-2016) and Zika virus (2015-2016) bring renewed recognition of the need to understand social pathways of disease transmission and barriers to care. Social scientists, anthropologists in particular, have been recognised as important players in disease outbreak response because of their ability to assess social, economic and political factors in local contexts. However, in emergency public health response, as with any interdisciplinary setting, different professions may disagree over methods, ethics and the nature of evidence itself.
-5.1. Ecomodernism and Science Based Environmentalism. I have always considered myself an environmentalist, but never found common cause with the environmentalist movement. The problem was (and remains) that so much of the environmentalist movement seems to be at odds with science. Not always, of course. When the science agrees with a pro environmentalist position, like the consensus on human caused global warming, then environmentalists happily cite the science and link arm in arm with scientists. However, when the science does not align with the environmentalist position, such as with farming practices, GMOs, and nuclear energy, they just as happily take an anti-scientific position -3.1↑, -VCP*A↓. Then scientists are in the pocket of big industry, the science cannot be trusted, and they cherry pick only the science they like. 180408-5.5, 180311-1.2. ¶ Got Data. Survey of 2017 March for Science Doesn’t Make the Grade, self selecting survey skewed results. As Scientists March, Federal Researchers Weather Trump Storm recruiting scientists to run for office. March for Science Returns to Over 200 Cities Tomorrow. Make America Smart Again: Hundreds Rally for US Science. 170430-1.
-6. 93 Days, Film on Nigeria’s Ebola Experience, Screens in Hollywood. The film is a compelling drama of dedication, sacrifice, resilience and survival based on the true story of the people who risked their lives to prevent a catastrophic virus outbreak in Nigeria. 93 Days Trailer (Video) [Poster]. 93 Days - A Nigerian Tale of Sacrifice and Heroism 2016, How Heroic Doctor Stopped the Spread of Ebola in Nigeria 2016, Nigeria's Fight Against Ebola to Be Portrayed in a New Movie from Top Nollywood Directors 2015, Danny Glover to Star in '93 Days,' a Film about Nigeria's Ebola Outbreak 2015.
-6.1. Movies are an important part of parademic narratives, fueling both panic, misinformation, ill formed decisions, and a small bits of valid information and what is socially real, -1, -3↑m The Best Movies about Disease Outbreaks, A Giant Gorilla and a Winged Wolf: Does ‘Rampage’ Get the Science of CRISPR Right [Poster]. <ADDED 180225-171008-5Quote>5, 180218-7.1, -171008-5Quote>5, <ADDED 180218- <ADDED 171217-171015-11>3, <ADDED 171008-170108-11.1>14 -‡, 170924-1, 170730-2.1, 170625-C, 170514-3‡1, 170423-8A, 170416-6, 170409-7, l170319-10, 170312-3.1 -*, 170305-14, 170226-12, 170220-5 -6.6P, 161106-5.1 -5.2, 161009C, 160925-10, ↓↓.
-7. Economic impacts are one of the first indicators of a parademic. This article is about natural disaster economics. Multiply by four for the impact of a biocalamity where there is attrition of the population, loss of knowledge, people with handicapping conditions that will need care for years, and potential of not being able to rebound the population for an extended number of generations. From Property Damage to Lost Production: How Natural Disasters Impact Economics. Major disaster databases tend to compile information about losses such as damages to property or cost of repairs, but other economic impacts after the disaster are often overlooked – such as how a company's lost ability to produce products may affect the entire supply chain within the affected region and in other regions. This may give an incomplete picture of the full financial impact of the disaster. Supply chains are especially vulnerable with just in time 180121-2A and information that is only in individual minds: where and when to deliver, special product handling, conditions of when to order more or to hold off, informal payments, routes, who to speak to, expediting, repackaging for a specific need, customer relations, rotating stock ..... The loss of a single individual could foul up a whole supply chain, and there could be a long delay before the supply problem is noticed. [Art]. The Sled Dog Relay That Inspired the Iditarod. Infrastructure and Operations Skills Gaps Will Cause Organizations to Experience Visible Business Disruptions.
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>VCP. News Archive↕: (Not in VCP) • Croatia: More than 15,000 Children Unvaccinated. Same story over and over again. Low vaccination due to an anti-vax movement or war -180325-4>3↓. As we have seen war includes disinformation -1.1↑ rising the possibility that at least some anti-vax are supported or astroturfed covertly by nation states, Ukraine↓. • India: At 61% Full Immunisation, Uttarakhand Lags at Bottom*. (Health Care Beset with Too Many Problems, Uttarakhand Election 2017: From Migration to Pollution, the Key Issues That May DeterminePolls, Time to Wake up to Uttarakhand's Real Problems, These Uttarakhand Women Give Birth Without Doctors. Here’s How That’s Going to Change, Uttarakhand: Private Medical College Hikes Fees by 400%, Students and Parents Protest, Uttarakhand: as Problems Pile Up, Youths See Wisdom in Migration. National Measles/ Rubella (MR) Campaign Fizzles out in Uttarakhand on Day One, Measles Makes a Comeback, Especially in North India.)*. (• Brazil: Yellow Fever Encroaches Megacities, Straining Global Vaccine Supply, Brazil Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaign Far Short of Goal, Ten Million Still Need Yellow Fever Vaccination, <ADDED 180401-VCP•Brazil...). • Ukraine: Death Toll from Outbreak of Measles of interest because of the poor transliteration. How under the polycalamitas conditions of uncertainty of a war -180325-4>3↓ when a measles vaccine was banned that one could trust another measles vaccine, 180325-6.1‡, 180211-4.4‡, <ADDED 170730-170507-1A>, Croatia↑. There are also the issues of parademic fake news as a weapon 180401-1*A, and the syndemic of HIV <ADDED 180121-180114-3>1, -180304-6↓. • UK: Call to Extend HPV Vaccine to Boys as Cancer Rates Soar, (HPV Vaccine Coverage on the Rise, but Still Far from 2020 Goal, Boys Don't Get HPV Vaccination Because Doctors Don't Recommend It, Parents Want the HPV Vaccine for Their Sons). • Philippines: Senate’s Draft Dengvaxia Report, Full of Inaccuracies. <ADDED 180408-VCP>, 180401-5.3, 180325-6.1‡, <ADDED 180225-180121-6>4. • Canada: 600 Central Ontario Students Facing Suspension for Not Updating Vaccination Records. (Measles in Canada: Why this Infectious Disease Is Spreading, 3 Mumps Cases Confirmed at 3 Different Schools, Says Toronto Public Health, Alberta: Edmonton Elementary School Student Diagnosed with Diphtheria, Why These 2 Small Towns in Southern Alberta Have Vastly Different Vaccination Rates 170618-9*, Vancouver Island Puzzled by Rare Cholera Outbreak). • Pakistan: Over 4,000 Families Refuse Polio Vaccine in Punjab over Viral Video, <ADDED 180408-VCP>, 180325-6.1‡. Authorities Deny Polio Vaccine Caused Death. This is a persistent myth (Infant Twins Die Simultaneously After Vaccines, In Romania, Where Infant Mortality Meets Anti-Vaccination Movement, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Stories of Suffering and Loss, Vaccines and Infant Mortality Rates: a False Relationship Promoted by the Anti-Vaccine Movement, Autism and Vaccines: Correlation Is Not Causation, [Chart ]). • USA: Anti-Vax Hospital Workers Using Religious Exemption Put Patients at Risk, with Help from EEOC, (Trump Appointee at Center of Fight over Religious Freedom), <ADDED 180128-180121-2A>1AQuote, <ADDED 180325-180304-6>8¶, 180225-5‡•USA, . . . Opinion – Don’t Politicize Vaccines, <ADDED 180325-180304-3>5. • Australia: Anti-Vaccination Doctor Appeals Suspension, (Autism Study Doctor Barred for Serious Misconduct 2010, Andy Wakefield Exonerated Because John Walker-Smith Won His Appeal. Not So Fast There, Pardner (2012), Andrew Wakefield Has Never Been Exonerated: Why Justice Mitting’s Decision in the Professor John Walker- Smith Case Does Not Apply to Wakefield, Andrew Wakefield and the MMR Autism Fraud). (<ADDED 180408-VCP>•France: Fake Médicine: Science Based Medicine Versus Homeopathy in France gives a little of the ideological background to some of the French attitudes about vaccination).
-*A. After years of noting paradoxical/ antipode social circumstances that are repeatedly associated with anti-vax/ low vax clusters I believe that I can make a case for a hypothesis about what circumstances indicate if an area will be anti or low vax. Anti-Vax and Low Vax clusters appear to be associated with medical access. Areas with either very low or highly unequal medical access, and those with very high medical access tend to have anti/low vaccination. | Conflict areas would naturally have low vax, especially with the proclivity to attack soft targets of the population and environment, medical facilities and personnel, hazardous materials, cyber, infrastructure, non combatants, toys 2, use of indiscriminate area weapons (chem/ bio/ nuke) -3↑, terrorism and disinformation. | Impoverished and depressed areas are vulnerable to anti-vax message and are most likely already are or were exploited economically and have poor environmental and health conditions due to anthropogenic activity. These people would be targets by unethical business, populist politics and fringe religion (not necessarily a recognized religion but religious like in zealotry -5.1↑) to gain membership numbers. | Likewise those with unlimited access to medical resources are also likely to be well off economically (and may have been or are the exploiters), would be targeted by the same business, politics, beliefs for either economic exploitation, or would be the targeters. | Some members of the middle economic groups would follow either the rich or poor as being indicators of what is the right thing to support. Going Viral in the Online Vaccine Wars. Meet the New, Dangerous Fringe of the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Pro-Vax Trolls Are Impersonating Disease Injured Families on Comment Boards. CDC Doc Didn't Say Flu Shot Causes Flu, but Fake Post Claiming Otherwise Had 700K Facebook Engagements.
-180401-5.1>1. This Flu Season Could Have a Second Wave. -1.1↑. The First Wave of Trials for Diabolical Witchcraft, suggests that when we examine the trials in a particular region, and when we read late medieval writings about witchcraft, we find that ideas were brought together in discernible but fragile coalescence, then sometimes diffused over broader areas, and in the process fused with ideas taken from different sources; and when we look back at the cluster which was once formed, we may find that in its diffusion it has become attenuated, with key notions abridged or omitted. The article suggests some of the ways this more complex pattern of coalescence and attenuation, diffusion, and fusion is reflected in sources from the late medieval West. It shows that what late medieval witch hunters and demonologists bequeathed to early modern Europe was not a fixed set of convictions and anxieties, but a more complex network of issues that called to be resolved, and which eventually were, at great cost. In other words a stigmatizing and displacement narrative (directing fears and hate to enemies or The Other, coping with and creating uncertainty, justification of questionable behavior, playing the victim, and deflecting blame onto others) that continues to this day, to include that these are characteristic of parademics and moral panics, -1, -1.1, -4↑, Cotton Mather, the Salem Witch Trials, and Our Miserable Present, Cotton Mather: Pioneer for Vaccines or Witch Hunter. Plague and Persecution: The Black Death and Early Modern Witch Hunts, Ten Theories about the Origins of the Witch Hunts. Don't Let the Left Do it to Pruitt, -3.1↑. World Renowned Medical Anthropologist Compares Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Labeling to Witch Hunts, just because someone holds a PhD, MD, Nobel Laureate does not mean they are correct, nor are they necessarily wrong if they advocate a new interpretation, Health Impact News, About [Web Page Title]. The Dunning-Kruger Song (Video). Again; parademic is not about validity, but in what context is something reliable. | 2nd wave of flu → Narrative → Plague → Witch Hunt → Cotton Mather → Scott Pruitt → Munchausen → Evaluation of News Source → In what context is misinformation reliable → Dunning Kruger -3.1↑.
-A. The Public Doesn't Take Flu Seriously Enough. As the nation experiences one of the worst flu seasons in years, thousands of Americans have already died from influenza or pneumonia (the viruses can work in tandem), according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Though the season peaked in February, the CDC recently warned that we should prepare for a second wave of cases to hit before we emerge from the season entirely. Now, it appears more than 50,000 could die from the flu before the season ends.
-180325-1.1¶>2, <ADDED 180408>3. #Linguistics Not all language is spoken. Nonverbal language can add nuance, enhance, negate, substitute for verbal language, and may also shape perception and interpretation. The Emotions We Feel May Shape What We See. Our emotional state in a given moment may influence what we see. When participants saw a neutral face as smiling more when it was paired with an unseen positive image. Emotional Body Language, Nonverbal Communication. [Art, and what do the glasses, coat, tie say].
-180325-4>3, <ADDED 180401>2. Aon’s 2018 Risk Maps Show Heightened Levels of Political Risk and Terrorism, 2018 Risk Maps. Aon’s guide to Political Risk, Terrorism & Political Violence. There is a strong correlation between the violence and politics on an area and risk of attacks on medical facilities and personnel, and in some cases the medical facility or personnel are the “cause” or focus for the violence. Knowing the theme of the politics can give an indication of what types of facilities will be attacked, such as abortion clinics, and the nature of the attack and the target – theft, protest, cyber 2, 3, 4, physical, assault, scam, malpractice scam, legal, financial, conspiracy theory, kidnapping, walking worried medical surge.... Anti-Abortion Activist on Trial for 'Wanted' Posters [Poster]. Fear in Liberia Turns Violent as a Mob Attacks an Ebola Clinic. Syria Systematically Harasses Medical Aid Convoys. -1, VCP•Croatia •Ukraine↑.
-180311-11>4, <ADDED 180401>4¶. Brazil State Seeks to Shut Venezuelan Border to Stop Refugee Flow temporarily to halt the massive and disorderly arrival of refugees. More than 50,000 Venezuelan refugees have arrived in Roraima since last year, fleeing an economic crisis and political strife in their country. The influx was nearly equal to 10 percent of the state's population of 520,000 inhabitants. The refugees have overloaded health, housing and education services, bringing the threat of disease and social disorder. <ADDED 180408-VCP>. Historically closing borders does not work, and in fact could exacerbate the situation with undocumented border crosser’s and the refugee’s that will accumulate near the border. -3.2↑.
-180304-6>5, <ADDED 180408>5. [Strip, Strip, Strip, Strip, Strip, Strip]. Pandemic Humor-8.5 et al, -10.3*1. Why Undertakers Are Worried, the bereaved, better informed, no longer always do what they are told or pay whatever they are asked. 180128-8, <ADDED 180311-180304-7.1>5, 170813-6.3. Science vs. Stigma: The Continued Criminalization of HIV. Failing to disclose one’s positive HIV status to a sexual partner may be objectionable, but is prison the answer. Science and medicine suggest not. Trump Failing to Lead on HIV, Advocates Say on World AIDS Day. HIV Crime Laws: Historical Relics or Public Safety Measures. -VCP•Ukraine↑. HIV/AIDS is the potential biodisaster/ biocalamitas. The opportunistic diseases associated with HIV/AIDS are the syndemic. The disease, associated biocalamitas (crashing into reservoirs via deforestation and the urban wild area interface), and the social aspects are the polycalamitas, -4↑.
-171210-10>6, <ADDED 180128>5. Dead Sperm Whale Had 64 Pounds of Trash in Its Digestive System. The juvenile sperm whale was found in the Murcia region of Spain, and its death has spurred a local campaign to combat plastic pollution. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Much Bigger than Previously Thought, The Giant Garbage Vortex in the Pacific Ocean Is over Twice the Size of Texas, Here's What it Looks like. [Art]. | Underwater Noise Pollution Is a Critical Threat to Aquatic Animals. ¶ Animal Images Used in Marketing May Skew Public Perception about Their Survival Risks. Many of the world's most charismatic animal species –those that attract the largest interest and deepest empathy from the public – are at high risk of extinction in part because many people believe their iconic stature guarantees their survival. Marketing Makes Our Favourite Animals Seem Common as They Slide Towards Extinction, The Danger of Seeing Cute Animals Everywhere. Falling Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species. A New Mourning: Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Giant Pandas No Longer Endangered Species.
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