Read This First, Heuristics (1), Glossary (A-H), Mini Lessons (2)
1. Lacks Memeorial, 2. Disaster Fashion, 3. Desirable and Dangerous Addresses, 4. Help = Harm, 5. Working with Decision Makers, 6. Narrative Evolution, 7. It’s not the Climate Change... 8. Patho_tainment, <ADDED >1. Facts Do Not Matter, >2. Global Warming Beliefs, >3. Water Cops, >4. Bio Defence, >5. Climate Warning, >6. Mosquitoes, >7. Hurridcane, >8. Promotion Censorship, >9. Ebola Embedded in Battlefield, >10. Medical Access = Survival, >11. Failing BioDefense, >12. Goop + Pseudoscience = $$$$, (181014-VCP).
Other Topics: BioTrumpism, BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Dengue, Katharine Hayhoe, Kavanaugh, Evangelicals, Florence, Michael, Evacuation, Repeating Failures, Family Separation, Cognitive Dissonance, Florida Politics, Context = Meaning, Midevil Warm Period, Famine, Trumpgelicals, Swimming Vikings, Pigs
-1. Johns Hopkins to Name New Research Building after Henrietta Lacks, INDEX Lack, Tuskagee. Henrietta Lacks was a young mother of five from eastern Baltimore County who, despite radiation treatment at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, died in 1951 of an aggressive cancer. Lacks was the source of the HeLa cell line that has been critical to numerous advances in medicine. Through her life and immortal cells, Henrietta Lacks made an immeasurable impact on science and medicine that has touched countless lives around the world. This building will stand as a testament to her transformative impact on scientific discovery and the ethics that must undergird its pursuit. U.S. Public Health Service Estimates They’ll Have Tuskegee Experiment Wrapped up by 2020, INDEX.
-2. Though one can separate international health from domestic health in terms of policy and application, it is however not possible to separate domestic health from the global health, which includes global environments which the US in part of, no matter how high the wall*. Melania’s Trip to Africa Says a Lot about US Foreign Policy under Trump, the president wants to slash US foreign aid. The first lady’s trip to Africa shows why he shouldn’t. | It is difficult to be sure of Melania Trump’s messages and even this Melania Trump: Talk about My Actions, Not My Fashion could mean something different or had a different purpose depending on context, [Photo, Meme, Cartoon]. As an attractive woman who has been a professional model she would be well aware of fashion and communication. In any case fashion is part of parademic ranging from icons such as biosuits 170528-1, to Victorian dress 160515-2, political statements [TShirt] and lab coats, 170312-1.2, 170220-6P. Fashion is under the larger parademic umbrella concept of the arts being one of the behaviors expressed in the context of biocalamity: auditory, emotional, visual, olfactory, kinesthetics, imaginative, interpersonal, relations, reflection of self and society, sex, literature, fiction -2-, movies (speaking of fashion statements), language, politics, humor, poetry, songs, drama, law, soft evidence, living and work spaces, and [Cartoons]. *The are possibilities represented by Biosphere 2 Legacy Lives on More than Quarter Century Later, but that would also require zero pollution and recycle of waste, and the always present social issues – two groups no longer talked to each other amid the stress of sharing a small space and disputes. | Overall though actions and words can still mean different things in different contexts, First Lady Says 'I Really Don't Care' Jacket Was Meant to Troll Press, Melania Trump Finally Gave an Explanation for Her “I Don’t Really Care. Do U?” Jacket; Melania Trump Says She Was Blindsided by Family Separations Policy, Trump Administration Weighs New Family Separation Effort at Border, <ADDED 180902-180128-3.1>10*.
-3. As Wildfires Rage, So Does Demand for High Risk Homes. A recent study finds that some of the West’s most fire-prone areas – densely forested, scenic landscapes – are also some of its most desirable. This has also been noted for desirable coastal areas to live [Cartoon], 180930-3.
-4. One of the most dangerous times of parademic is the post period. The attempts to recover, return to normal, move one, iatrogenic harm caused by helping. Psychotherapy Is Not Harmless: on the Side Effects of CBT. Therapists reported an average of 3.7 unwanted events per client, from 17 possible unwanted effects from therapy, such as deterioration, new symptoms, distress, strains in family relations or stigma.. These were then rated the likelihood of each unwanted event being directly attributable to the therapeutic process – making it a true side effect. Only those rated as ‘definitely related to treatment’ were categorised as such. An estimated 43 per cent of clients had experienced at least one unwanted side effect from CBT, equating to an average of 0.57 per client, one client had four: most often distress, deterioration and strains in family relations. More than 40 per cent of side effects were rated as severe or very severe, and more than a quarter lasted weeks or months, though the majority were mild or moderate and transient. Examples of severe side effects included: suicidality, breakups, negative feedback from family members, withdrawal from relatives, feelings of shame and guilt, or intensive crying and emotional disturbance during sessions.
-5. Working with decision makers (DM) is a big part of science advising. This is a good series to explore that that entails. The reader will have to tease out the application of biocalamaties and behavior in that context. 1. Does the DM Really Want Intelligence. 2. What Kind of Intelligence Is the DM Looking For. 3. What Are the DM's Assumptions. 4. What Does the DM Mean When They Say "X". 5. What Constraints Is the DM Willing to Put on the Requirement. 6. What Are the DM's Priorities.
-6. One was to identify how important an Icon and Narrative is tracking how it was repurposed. The recently self destructed Banksy artwork is an example. First was the irony that it became more valuable [Cartoon] just as has happened when a product becomes less available and/or a more critical need with a biocalamity -180930-3A‡↓. Then it is was related to other current events [Cartoon] -180930-3A↓, and to other news and narratives [Cartoon], to include biocalamity and parademic topics [Cartoon]. After the icon stops circulating then one looks to see if it was a previous wave [Cartoon, Meme, Art] and watch to see if it reappears in another wave, assuming there is a future where there can be another wave. Banksy Hospitalized with Third Degree Burns after Attempting to Cash Self Destructing Check.
-7. Not the Fall That Kills You [Meme]. Earthquakes Don't Kill People, Buildings Do$, not to mention the fires, power outages, broken transportation and communication links, flooding [Still]. It’s not the climate (environmental) change that will kill you, it’s not even the high heat and low cold (on same day). It will be starvation, thirst, toxic air (and water), mega fires + smoke, poor confusing or avoiding decisions by leaders -2- -3-, saving and making money given priority over saving lives, infectious diseases, drowning, respiratory kidney heart failure, despair, loss of livelihoods, forced migration. Most of these are not fast painless ways to die. #Linguistics Climate Change Will Kill off Icebergs, Animals, and Metaphors.
-Quote: As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. – Al Gore
-8. Epidemics as Entertainment. Plagues capture the public imagination in ways that other less terrifying, but more deadly, diseases don’t. Plagues are a staple of modern day popular culture. There’s the actual news cycles dominated by the disease du jour—Ebola, H1N1, SARS. Then there’s an entire genre of film based on mysterious bugs that wipe out populations, or turn people into the murderous undead. A popular online game, Pandemic, has you deliberately infecting as many countries as possible. You would think that our fascination with epidemics might be a natural human reaction to a threat, and yet, our specific fear of certain diseases has little to do with their actual degree of deadliness. What exactly makes an illness newsworthy. Historians and literary critics have produced many useful studies of individual diseases, they have only rarely explored the larger process of competition for attention that operated in making one disease seem a more compelling subject than another.
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-181007-4>1. Even When Presented with Facts, Supported by Evidence, Many Choose Not to Believe Them. Some distrust comes from studies suggesting that current research findings aren't as robust as previously thought. Reasons range from innocent causes, such as undetected analytical errors, to occasional questionable research practices. But the authors also point to well funded, concerted efforts to discredit solid scientific research for self interested political, ideological or economic ends. Many people are also likely to use motivated reasoning when evaluating research based claims about the causes and consequences. | Something’s Going on Here: Building a Comprehensive Profile of Conspiracy Thinkers. By and large, people gravitate toward conspiracy theories that seem to affirm or validate their political views. Republicans are vastly more likely than Democrats to believe that climate change is a hoax. Democrats are more likely to believe that Trump’s campaign “colluded” with the Russians. But some people are habitual conspiracists who entertain a variety of generic conspiracy theories. ghlight3 Here’s What the Spread of Misinformation on Twitter Looks like. Spread of misinformation has been compared to epidemics and there is some data on How Misinfodemics Spread Disease. To date there has not been a study of how correct information spreads – which may also be epidemic like, though slower and not as widely as more interesting false information. There is no data that circulation of correct information actually slows the expansion of an epidemic. It’s a reasonable assumption, but it is still an assumption. | This article is an oversimplification that implies only certain wrong thinking people ignore evidence. Everyone evaluates inputs for what they will assimilate and what they will dismiss, and how much weight/ value will be given to what is accepted. It does not matter if one is a conspiracy theorist or an objective scientist, this is the SLA process of selecting what supports ones narratives, limit what does not support, and adjust the a priori narrative to incorporate new information, Close Enough-II4.
-180930-3A>2, <ADDED 181007>1. The first Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C by the IPCC is 1.5°C above pre industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. IPCC Says Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 °C Will Require Drastic Action. Climate Report Understates Threat. Kudlow on Pushes Back on UN Warning: Climate Change Modeling Has Not Been Successful.
-‡. Why It's Misleading to Say We Only Have 12 Years to Avert Dangerous Climate Change -180513-1.1↓ Golden Hour. Climate Change Will Get Worse. These Investors Are Betting on It -6↑. Climate Report Warns of Extreme Weather, Displacement of Millions Without Action. A 2018 Economics Nobel Winner Created an Invaluable Tool for Understanding Climate Change. The World Was Just Issued 12 Year Ultimatum on Climate Change. Why We Keep Ignoring Even the Most Dire Climate Change Warnings. UN Climate Change Report Contrasts with Recent EPA Policy Changes . The Scariest Parts of the New Climate Change Report: the Goals the World Set Are Inadequate, and the Track We're on Is Disastrous. Climate Report Warns of Extreme Weather, Displacement of Millions Without Action, years from now one of Trump’s children will claim that if the US had built the wall this would not be a problem. Climate Change Debate Is Reflected in One Woman's Story in Play at Guthrie Theater driven by both rigorous logic and raw, almost palpable, grief. Opinion: New Climate Report Reveals Planetary Horror Story. On Climate, Our Choice Is Now Catastrophe or Mere Disaster. I Learned about Climate Change by Watching Fortnite on Twitch, hey, there are worse things to be learned from videogames. The Trump Administration Anticipates Catastrophic Global Warming by 2100. Dealing with Critical Risks from Climate Change Beyond Adaptation and Mitigation Limits, The Almighty Dollar Beats Disaster Mitigation – Every Day. Global Warming Petition Project. [Cartoon]. Administration Mum on Climate Change Report as Trump Says: I Want to Look at Who Drew it, Donald Trump Casts Doubt on New UN Report That Sounds Climate Change Alarm, Trump Says He’ll Review UN Climate Change Report, doubtful that he can read at that grade level, but if so likely it will be labeled a fake; Trump Questions Origins of U.N. Climate Report, [Cartoon], Kudlow Says United Nations ‘Overestimate’ on Potential Climate Change Impact. Scientists and Military Take on Climate Change; Trump Golfs. The DOT climate report is not the first time that something slipped past the biotrump narrative, Trump’s New Defense Bill Includes a Dire Warning on Climate Change. Role of Natural Factors on Recent Climate Change Underestimated. The Case Against Despair on Climate Change. Trump Administration Tries to Distance Itself from Alarming New Climate Change Report, How the Trump Administration Is Accelerating Climate Change. Can Technology Reverse Climate Change, 15 Emerging Technologies That Could Reduce Global Catastrophic Biological Risks, possibly but PDWN concern of course is if people will allow the development and use of technology that can do this. Climate Change Fueling Disasters, Disease in Potentially Irreversible Ways, Report Warns. GOP Shrugs off Dire Study Warning of Global Warming. The Big Lie We’re Told about Climate Change Is That It’s Our Own Fault. UN Climate Change Report Doesn’t Bother Climatologist Cliff Mass. Who Is the We in ‘We Are Causing Climate Change’. How the Climate Debate Changed this Week. Weekend Update: U.N.'s Climate Change Report Video. Why People Aren’t Motivated to Address Climate Change. We're All Doomed: Climate Change Edition, Sheneman Cartoon. ‘Can Anyone Hear Me’ Shout Terrified Climate Scientists Frantically Waving Arms as Passersby Walk Straight Through Them, U.N. Reports Says Humanity Has 12 Years to Avert Climate Related Catastrophe, Climate Scientists Confirm There’s Still Time To Blow Up The Earth.
-A. None of these impact will influence or have negative consequences to Trumpgelicals, -2- -3- -4- -5-$, -6- -7- -8-$ -9- -10- 2015 -11- -12- -13- -14- -15- 2016 -16- -17- -18- 2014 -19- -20-. Clearly religion is a fruitful area to look into with parademic topics, the balancing of beliefs that form personal identity, the cognitive coping when realities do not fit beliefs and therefore are resisted as they threaten one’s identity. People behavior tends to become more dangerous to themselves and others when they are threatened. One insight is that when an individual claims religious authority of a belief it likely to be an internal personal belief justified by religion, sometimes such a person gains a position of authority and thier personal beliefs are shared by others, but they become the focus of personal beliefs but never exactly the same as other individuals of the group they are given control of. This is not limited to religion, indeed can be what are considered in opposition to religion, such as war and science. The Christian Climate Professor Bridging the Gap Between Science and Faith, Evangelical Environmentalism. The Trump Prophecy Includes Troubling Parallels for American Democracy -2- resisting the authority of a sitting president – or, at least, this sitting president – is conflated with resisting God himself.. [Cartoon, Photo]. They’ve Done It Again! U.N. Says We Have 10 Years Left to Save the World from Climate Change. Trump's Future Be Damned Climate Change Policy. BTW this will not be dying of overheating, it will be from famine/ starvation, and drought/ thirst. | U.S. Top Court Rebuffs Appeal of Kavanaugh Ruling Nixing Climate Rule, Trump's Evangelical Supporters Hail Kavanaugh Confirmation. Latest Trump Administration Action on Religious Freedom Shrinks the Distance Between Church and State. Religion is often a succor for the problems of life and usually associated with biocalamities and changing society, We Refuse to Be Silent Any Longer: Magic as Self Care after Kavanaugh -6 Cartoon2↑.
-B. As the curator of PDWN I find the overlap of religion and parademic fascinating. I don’t understand the religious perspective, find that I am unable to predict behavior based on a religious perspective, have no comprehension of making decisions based on scriptural authority. I recognize it is important and influences human behavior, that it is one of those social areas that is vulnerable to exploitation, being abused and being incorrectly stereotyped. Otherwise I am at a loss to explain the apparent cognitive dissonance of what I perceive as contradictions, hypocrisy, inconsistent internal logic, self delusion, blame on others and a whole slew of other sins. Then again I don’t have to. One of the observations from parademic is that behavior is based on beliefs (presumably real, but not everyone agrees what real is), and that if a behavior is self destructive and/or harmful to others one wants the behavior to change, not necessarily the belief it is justified and motivated by, just how that belief is physically expressed.
-‡. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Job 12:7-10 But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this. In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. Revelation 11:18 The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth. Jeremiah 2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination. Isaiah 24:5 The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
-C. Devastating Climate Change Coming. Here’s How We Can Feed 10 Billion People Sustainably by 2050, Options for Keeping the Food System Within Environmental Limits. The food system is a major driver of climate change, changes in land use, depletion of freshwater resources, and pollution of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems through excessive nitrogen and phosphorus inputs -180916-1↓. Between 2010 and 2050, as a result of expected changes in population and income levels, the environmental effects of the food system could increase by 50-90% in the absence of technological changes and dedicated mitigation measures, reaching levels that are beyond the planetary boundaries that define a safe operating space for humanity. No single measure is enough to keep these effects within all planetary boundaries simultaneously, and that a synergistic combination of measures will be needed to sufficiently mitigate the projected increase in environmental pressures. WFP: Climate Change to Accelerate World Hunger.
-D. How a Viking Swimming with a Sheep Led to Climate Change Denial. The lesson here is that scholars in the sciences and humanities need to work more closely together, to learn from one another as equals. The study of the past, for better or worse, has never been a "closed" discipline. Although of course different sometimes in practice, in theory anyone who learns the methods scholars use to try to access the past - how to access and properly contextualize primary sources - can have something meaningful to say about a given period. That said, some people are better at this than others. The article Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism, tells a story about a 10th-century Viking and a modern scientist who read with too little skepticism , which has dramatic implications as we confront the recent UN report on climate change. The story was seized on by an early climate scientist as an anecdote that helped prove what's since become known as the Medieval Warm Period, the hypothesis that the climate particularly of Northern Europe from the 10th to 13th centuries was slightly warmer than the early 20th century. This impacted not only weather but agricultural production. Thorkel's story fits here because it seemed to suggest that the water around Greenland was much warmer than it is now. Climate change deniers, in addition to refusing to believe the science, now point to the erasure of the Medieval Warm Period. Thorkel's swim is a weird story to begin with and never should have been read the way it was. Along with sheep laden swims, the Book of Settlements it comes from also has stories about mermen giving prophecies and women filling the sea with fish via witchcraft. This text was never intended to be read as a straightforward recording of facts. Properly contextualized, Thorkel's swim likely should be read as another fantastic tale about the settlement of Greenland - as something much closer to myth than history. This, unfortunately, wasn't how it was read and we're still dealing with the consequences today.
-180916-1>3. In a Drying Climate, Colorado's Water Cop Patrols for Water Thieves. Specializing in the complex world of water law. His job has become more important in this region after a series of hot, dry summers have made farmers more desperate for water, and more willing to steal it or go to battle over it. ¶ Teen Cancer Survivor Has Selfless Wish Granted with Help from Milford Based Organization, ‘How can I go on a cruise and sail on water for 10 days when people don’t have water to drink. “While I have the resources, why not make a difference now”. Clean Water Act Dramatically Cut Pollution in US Waterways. Irrigating Vegetables with Wastewater in African Cities May Spread Disease. -181007-4C↑, <ADDED 180930-180916-5>3.
-180916-3.3>4, <ADDED 181007>2. Fearful of Swine Fever, France Plans Fence on Belgian Border. Besides the problem of fencing pigs out, and the costs of maintaining such a long fence so it remains an effective barrier, and by the time the fence is completed the outbreak will not only be in France, but the outbreak will probably be over, It seems that the history of the Maginot Line has been forgotten. This is probably more to give the appearance something is being done as biodefense itself is not particularly dramatic -180408-5.4↑. Though pig to pig contact is the easiest way of transmission, when an infectious disease jumps continents one needs to suspect human involvement via transportation of pigs, pig products, food for pigs, and the always present risk (actually a certainty) that those who raise pigs hide that a pig was sick. [Cartoon, Meme, Cartoon]. This action by France is probably fueled by its own measles outbreak and recent Belgian outbreak, China Bans Imports of Bulgarian Pigs Due to African Swine Fever. African Swine Fever Reaches Tianjin as China Reports New Outbreaks. | As a pandemic planner during the 2009 Flu this is remindful of some of the same parademic behaviors of that time INDEX 2009 H1N1, Swine Flu, Counsel Claims Minister's 'Intransigence' Delaying Case Where Woman Claims She Got Sleep Disorder from Swine Flu Vaccine, Why Border Controls Can't Keep Out the Flu Virus, Egypt Orders Slaughter of All Pigs over Swine Flu ..... Now Cairo Gags on its Own Garbage, The 'False' Pandemic: Drug Firms Cashed in on Scare over Swine Flu, Claims Euro Health Chief, Swine Flu Vaccine: Will We Have a Choice. 181014-VCP-Ukraine. This was one of the origins of parademic. I had observed prior to that how human behavior had hindered response, and acerbated disaster so I was primed with the concept. As planners we were faced with an overwhelming catastrophic bioevent (and that was not even considering syndemic, concurrent disasters with economic decline and the polybiocalamities that we face now). We faced issues of logistics, command and control, personnel, communications, potential mass casualties and fatalities, medical and resource attrition, fatigue from continuous 24/7 operations, lack of basic information for planning, transportation, manufacture and delivery of treatment, personnel shortages, decision makers who did not comprehend what a global pandemic means. The daunting list does not include the two biggest problems faced in control and containment of a pandemic. The combination of misinformation and human behavior. These not only made a horrible situation worse, but could easily neutralize any solutions, in fact our planning efforts were neutralized and hindered by our own decision makers. Overall things have not changed that much from 2009 except in quantity. Now there are more biohazards, more biocalamities already in progress waiting to accelerate, more ignorance and misinformation, more environmental conditions that are conducive to acceleration of biocalamities, and more needed to be done at higher cost to mitigate the inevitable – the option of prevention is long gone.
-180916-5F>5, <ADDED 181007>5. Alert [Cartoon, Cartoon]. Evacuation [Cartoon].
-180916-5>6, <ADDED 181007>3, Mosquitoes. Venezuela: Hospitals See More Dengue than Measles Cases, Says Epidemiology Society. The climate favours reproduction of the mosquitoes that transmit the disease, but combined with the lack of policies to prevent it, conditions are ideal for its easy spread. In some cases dengue is displacing measles. 181014-VCP-Brazil. October 11, 1793 Yellow Fever Breaks out in Philadelphia. The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on this day in 1793. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead. The virus, like malaria, is carried and transferred by mosquitoes. Today, a vaccine prevents yellow fever in much of the world, though 20,000 people still die every year from the disease.
-180916-5>7, <ADDED 181007>3. Nearly Half of Tar Heels Killed by Hurricane Florence Were 70 or Older. As Storms Keep Coming, FEMA Spends Billions in Cycle of Damage and Repair [Cartoon]. Hurricane Set to Collide with Top Florida Races, there is some news on hurricane Michael, but seems hurricane fatigue has set in, Florida Politics Play into Disaster Relief Debate, <ADDED 181007-180708-8>7, AP Fact Check: Trump on Hurricane and Political Winds. If Michael has a large precipitation load it could be a repeat to Florence’s flooding of the Carolina’s. | FEMA Boss: Those Who Ride out Storm Surge Don't Usually Live to Tell about It. To those who have ridden out storms, know people who have, who know people who know people who have, who have attended hurricane parties -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- [Checklist, Sign, Sign, Meme] or heard about them, that were told to evacuate and then the storm was not as bad as forecasted, this is clearly incorrect. It is also insensitive because not everyone can leave, but implies it is their own fault, FEMA Director Criticizes People for Not Getting out of Storm’s Way, My Advice to Elected Officials – As if Speaking to My Child. This could be interpreted as expecting another failure by FEMA and setting things up to deflect blame. | In addition not having the money or means to evacuate also implies that people don’t have the resources to build up disaster supplies, Residents of Florida Coast Increasingly Desperate for Food and Shelter, Survivors Scramble for Food and Water in the Wake of Hurricane Michael, We Need Answers: Hurricane Michael Leaves Florida Residents Desperate for Aid. Why We’re Stuck with an Inadequate Hurricane Rating System. Panicked Meteorologists Advise Entire Nation to Take Cover after Losing Track of Hurricane Michael, Rick Scott Orders Hurricane Michael to Evacuate from Florida, Hurricane Michael Makes Landfall in Most Dangerous Storm in Florida Panhandle History.
-‡. The Psychology Behind the Pre Hurricane Run to the Grocery Store, why some people buy pop tarts and liquor before a hurricane – and some people don’t prepare at all. As Monster Michael Storms In, No Fear at the Lighthouse Motel, Hurricane Michael Intensified Quickly, Taking Many by Surprise. Michael Devastates Florida Panhandle, Climate Change an Unavoidable Subject. 20 People Found Safe in Town Where Hurricane Michael Made Landfall as Aerial Footage Shows Unimaginable Destruction, I Should Have Left – Hurricane Michael Terrified Those Who Stayed, I Got Stuck: in Poor, Rural Communities, Fleeing Hurricane Michael Was Tough, Hurricane Michael Hit the Parts of Florida Least Prepared to Flee its Wrath. The ‘Greatest Hoax’ Strikes Florida. Victims of Hurricane Michael Voted for Climate Deniers. GOP Chairman: FEMA Has Enough Money for Hurricane Michael, FEMA Faces Hurricane Michael with Many , Senior Roles Unfilled, Who Needs a Deputy Brock Long Does. Hospitals Pummeled by Hurricane Michael Scramble to Evacuate Patients, Hurricane Michael Forces Florida Hospitals to Shut Down. More Floridians Could Be Exposed to Toxic Red Tide as Hurricane Michael Pushes it , Ashore, Trump Blames Democrat Bill Nelson for No Help on Toxic Algae – Right Before He Voted to Help. Who Decides That a Death Was Caused by Hurricane Florence? And Why Does it Matter, Cartoon]. | And don’t forget about Maria, but apparently some have or at least hope others have, FEMA Is Putting Puerto Rico Generators in Storage Instead of Leaving Them in Communities Where They Are Still Needed, Differential and Persistent Risk of Excess Mortality from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: a Time Series Analysis. US National Guard Chief: the Climate Is Changing. I Don’t Know Why, the general talked with reporters about the National Guard’s Hurricane Michael response, he told us a lot more. Hurricane Victims Getting IRS Tax Filing Relief. | Florida Air Force Base for Top Stealth Fighter Jets Takes a 'Direct Hit' from Hurricane Michael, Tyndall Air Force base evacuated most staff and all aircraft on Monday, just before they "took a direct hit" from the category four Hurricane Michael. Tyndall Air Force Base in Ruins after Michael, Fighter Jets Seen Inside Roofless Hangars. Hurricane Michael Death Toll Climbs to 18 with New Victim Reported in Virginia, but as long as the death toll stays under 64, Michael is not a real catastrophe.
-180819-VCP-Global>8. #Linguistics Do Universities Value Public Engagement. Not Much, Their Policies Suggest. Scholarly work that serves the public is the kind of thing that, theoretically, universities want faculty members to pursue. A study of the language used by more than 100 colleges in their tenure and promotion criteria shows little evidence that such scholarship is valued in a way that advances faculty careers. The term "community" is mentioned by 87 percent of institutions at either the university or academic unit level, while 75 percent mention the term "public." But a closer look at the context reveals the true status of those terms. Although the words "service" and "research" are near those two terms most frequently, "service" is mentioned more than twice as often as "research" in that context. Such placement suggests that the terms refer to what the authors describe as "the least highly regarded" tenure and promotion criteria – the service component – with the others being research and teaching. The way the words are used in the policies also suggests that the terms pertain to service to the discipline or the institution, not necessarily to the broader public.
-180513-1.1>9, <ADDED 181007>8. October 08, 2014, First Person in U.S. Diagnosed with Ebola Dies, and until that happens I would not expect much motivation to help. | Ebola Response Tightens in Eastern Congo as Seven New Cases Confirmed: Health Ministry. Binding Measure to Comply with the Rules Imposed by the Health Emergency in Beni. Nobel Peace Prize Winner Calls on Congolese Government to Quit. The Risk of Ebola Spreading Beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo Is Very High. WHO Sees Congo's Ebola Outbreak Lasting 3-4 Months atLeast, and could spread to Uganda or Rwanda, which are well prepared but have not approved use of a vaccine. Dozens of people may have been exposed to the deadly disease are hiding from health workers. Not that long ago there was statements that the outbreak was contained <ADDED 180701-180513-1.1*¶2A>5, followed by Seven Reasons Why this Ebola Epidemic Spun out of Control. Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Congo Spreads as Locals Attack Health Workers Trying to Contain Disease, Ebola Cases Spike as Nervous Communities Stop Cooperating with Health Care Workers. Though overlapping there are differences between communities that are resisting health care for Ebola, and those who are fighting the DRC government. Ebola Showed up in a War Zone. It’s Not Going Well. Experts Said a War Zone Ebola Outbreak Would Be a Nightmare. It’s Been Even Worse. Ebola Is about Human Beings and Trust. DR Congo: Managing Ebola Virus in War. The Hijacked Hearse: Dispatches from the Ebola Outbreak in DRC. Battles over Safe Ebola Burials Complicate Work in Congo*. | I had shared with the university 180708-3 that is doing the digital ethnography via social media of the Russian-Ukraine conflict the article Ebola in the DR Congo. That’s Not the Real Tragedy, which is analogous to the parademic context of that conflict, but neglected to include it with stub <ADDED 180909-180513-1.1>. Not sure what my reasoning was at the time but suspect that I had unconsciously pigionholed (#s 4-6) the item as separate from Ebola in the DRC, but still had available in the larger parademic database if I needed to link the two at another time. Ebola Contact Tracing and Monitoring in DRC. The Inhabitants of Butembo Ask All the Questions about Ebola Virus Disease Through a Popular Platform. DRC Ebola Cases Mount, with in School Infection a New Worry. Ebola and Persistent Insecurity Undermine Beni's Economic Fabric.
-*. Wonder if at some future date if archaeologists (or paleontologists in humans are extinct) discover these burials, with the chemical residues and plastic shrouds, if they will wonder what the superstitious reasoning was for these burials. ¶ Vampire Burial Reveals Efforts to Prevent Child's Return from Grave. It’s Media that calls these vampire burials, and this story usually appears each year appears around Halloween. Though the term is used as a shorthand it is understood in archaeology that there is no evidence what the purpose of this practice was. One speculation is that the individual had rabies and those who buried them just wanted to make sure the individual does not rise again to bite people. Also these types of burials tend to come from a time when there wasn’t the distinctions between witch, werewolf, vampire and walking dead that we have today. It also happens that tales about this as yet undifferentiated supernatural creature often times have bats associated. It is credible to think that the difference between rabies and some sort of demonic possession or evil curse was unknown. Creatures of the Night, Bat Magic and Folklore, Bats and Vampiric Lore in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Except for ancient Egypt (and then only are part of the assemblage of animals typically interred with important burials), bats are not found as intentional items in graves. I can find no information of when bats were first identified as rabies carriers, but unlikely that the association was made before the end of the European Renaissance. Stories of rabies and bats would have been after that time, though there was a belief prior to then that being bitten by an animal resulted in becoming that animal unless purified. Presumably this is the origin of bites turning people into vampires and werewolves, and the behavior may have been because of being infected by rabies.
-180513-1.1>10, <ADDED 181007>8, Golden (2) Hour. How Long Can the US Military's Golden Hour Last. In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US military medicine achieved the highest rate of survival from battlefield injuries in history. The wounded to killed ratio has more than doubled, from 4:1 during last century's world wars, to 10:1 today. Substantial credit for this achievement goes to a tireless focus on getting wounded warfighters lifesaving care within 60 minutes of injury – a timespan that is referred to as the golden hour. If someone is not killed instantly this can be as short as two minutes to start life saving care for a traumatic injury. For disease one has about 8 hours from when a person starts actively dying, but identification of signs is difficult and transportation to care can hasten the process. Dehydration is about three days depending on exertion and heat, while starvation is three weeks depending on nutrition status before all food was cut off. The two hour to a hospital standard by WHO is an ideal to be reached, but there are other problems such as being able to pay for the hospital, being allowed access if the first place, if a hospital is actually a hospital. There are areas in the US that are further than two hours from a hospital, and are far more costly. | At this time one can estimate what the golden hour is for climate change, in some ways we have already passed it, in other ways there is still time to adapt and salvage. Overall though since there has never been a global mass extinction that would be measured directly by science before this, we really don’t know. Could be sooner, could be later, it is however inevitable if current trends do not change, -180930-3A↑.
-180408-5.4>11, <ADDED 180923>4. Increasing Mortality and Declining Health Status in the USA: Where is Public Health. The U.S. Biodefense Strategy Is Undermined by Policies on Health Insurance and Immigration. 171231-1.3. Review of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel, Fits and Starts: Reactionary Biodefense. -180916-3.3↑. Roughly speaking biodefense is keeping bad stuff out of an area, while biosecurity is keeping bad stuff contained within an area.
-180128-6>12, <ADDED 180909>10. I Reviewed All 161 of GOOP’s Wellness Products for Pseudoscience. Here’s What I Found. Objective: To identify evidence that Gwyneth Paltrow is correct in her statement that the website GOOP does not sell pseudoscience; probably misleading as by Dr. Jen Gunter clearly is biased. Materials and Methods: A search of the products sold on GOOP.com in the wellness section; though the hypothesis is misleading, Paltrow did self select what would be evaluated, which might be considered a balancing bias. Results: Biologically implausible therapies and ill researched products were identified. The majority of health products (94%) could not be supported by science; this is a mix of objective and subjective evaluation. Conclusions: There is no evidence to support Gwyneth Paltrow’s claim that goop is free of pseudoscience. In fact the opposite is true, goop is a classic example of pseudoscience profiteering. The bulk of their products are useless, but some could be harmful; likely to be an objective opinion that can be replicated based on the current state of knowledge and the verifiable evidence. In case a reader believes I am unfairly attacking this medical scammer (that is an ad hominem). Allow me to borrow a technique used by quacks, this is not my opinion but the opinion of others, I am simply passing on others opinions who have a background to make such pronouncements (appeal to authority, or at least I presume a lesbian gynecologist is expert in the biological science and anatomy [Meme]). This is a conundrum for marketing pseudoscience. To make sales they must provide advertising in public forums and the actual product that can be tested. Fortunately their customer base is unconcerned about actual effects, only the perceived ones (magical thinking with confirmation bias).
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