Read This First, Heuristics (1), Glossary (A-H), Mini Lessons (3)
1. Jelly Hazard, 2. Hot Mail, 3. Clean Up, 4. Popular Incompetence, 5. Smallpox Isolation, 5.1. Migrant Policy Myths, 6. Scandal of Climate Scandal, <ADDED >1. Evangelical Change, >2. Parking Damage, >3. Cold Social Change, >4. India’s Anti Science, >5. Orwellian Humanitarian, >6. Health System Collapse, >7. Polish Sausage, >9. PAHPA, >9. Conflict Ebola, >10. Cuban Crickets. 190113-VCP.
Other Topics: Dominionism, BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Invasive Species, Population Explosion, Hayhoe, Lynn White, Strategic National Stockpile, Medical Distribution and Supply, Science Denial, Dunning- Kruger, Wild Fire, Forced Migration, Sea Level Rise, Mining Industry, Reframing,
-1. Thousands Stung in Australian Jellyfish Invasion, How Perfect Storm of Jellyfish Stung 1,200 Florida Beach Goers Within Days, [Meme]. A Jellyfish Epidemic Has Australian Scientists Wondering Whether Climate Change Is to Be Blamed$, Domino Effect: The Jellyfish Example, Jellyfish Thrive on Pollution and Climate Change. Now They’re Taking Over, Jellyfish Are Causing Mayhem as Pollution, Climate Change See Numbers Boom, Do Humans Influence Jellyfish Coastal Populations, Jellyfish Are Not an Ecological Dead End. Are Swarms of Jellyfish Taking over the Ocean 2016, Jellyfish Are Taking over the Seas, and it Might Be Too Late to Stop Them 2013, Explosion in Jellyfish Numbers May Lead to Ecological Disaster 2011, Massive Outbreak of Jellyfish Could Spell Trouble for Fisheries 2011, Jellyfish: The Next King of the Sea 2010. Biothreats usually have known antecedents to current bioevents, but at the time are ignored or not recognized as a risk hazard. Bioevents eventually accelerate to a biocalamity if trends are not changed. [Meme]. #Book Austin based Writer Juli Berwald Takes Love for Jellyfish, Climate Change Talk to San Antonio Jewish Center [Cover], Imagining the Jellyfish Apocalypse. The Stinging, Gelatinous Blobs Could Take over the World’s Oceans.
-2. Another known problem that is not likely to be addressed anytime soon. Extreme Temperatures May Pose Risks to Some Mail Order Meds. In 2012, when her son was 2 years old, he got so sick from the flu that he needed a liver transplant. The transplant surgery went well, but just a few months later, lab tests showed his body appeared to be rejecting the organ. He didn't lose his new liver but during his weeks in the hospital, but she remembered that when his anti rejection medications were last delivered to their house, the box had been left outside by the garage, where it sat for hours. Temperatures that day were well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit – well beyond the safe temperature range listed on the drug's guidelines. Heat Can Hurt Mail Order Prescriptions, Mail Order Medications Can Be Affected by Heat and Cold. Unknown if current technology can handle this. Same problem could apply to SNS stockpile containers where it cannot always be guaranteed that the containers will get cold storage at receiving location and it is possible for the containers to end up on a hot tarmac for days, especially if the epicenter of a disease outbreak is an urban area and airport, or seaports where distribution of supplies breakdowns can happen. [Meme].
-3. There is always detritus after a biocalamity. Rarely pleasant stuff that is sometimes a biohazard, and needs to be planned for. The most difficult type is when search a rescue become search and recovery of those who died. Millions of Tons of Camp Fire Debris Must Go Somewhere, but No One Wants It. Volunteers Have the Hard Task of Finding Wildfire Victims, and collection of remains becomes more complicated if there are legal issues, Possible Murder Charges for a Utility. Hurricane Florence Bathed North Carolina in Raw Sewage. New Figures Show It Was Even Worse Than We Thought, and this can also lead to legal issues, Few Wells Tested for Contamination after Major Flooding from Hurricanes, Coal Ash Didn’t Pollute NC River above State Standards, Officials Say, -181216-4↓.
-4. What’s Behind the Confidence of the Incompetent. This Suddenly Popular Psychological Phenomenon$. You may have witnessed this scene at work, while socializing with friends or over a holiday dinner with extended family: Someone who has very little knowledge in a subject claims to know a lot. That person might even boast about being an expert. This phenomenon has a name: the Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s not a disease, syndrome or mental illness; it is present in everybody to some extent, and it’s been around as long as human cognition, though only recently has it been studied and documented in social psychology. 180819-VCP-USA, 180617-3*. This is especially harmful is someone claims having a gut feel -2- -3- for science, government, technology, or medicine. Misunderstanding Dunning-Kruger. [Strip].
-‡. Strategies for Overcoming Science Denial Video, Fearful Conservatives and Angry Liberals Process Political Information Differently, Emotional Response to Climate Change Influences Whether We Seek or Avoid Further Information 2013. Dinner with a Climate Denier: the Making of My Hendrix Uncle Comic. Scientists Urge Gov. Abbott to Accept Climate Change Science. [Cartoon]. It’s Time to Talk About Ecological Grief, denial is the first stage of grief after shock.
-5. How New York Separated Immigrant Families in the Smallpox Outbreak of 1901. Vaccinations were administered by police raids, parents and children were torn apart, and the City Health Department controlled the narrative. The United States diagnosed its last case of smallpox in 1949, and by 1980, the disease was declared eradicated worldwide. But prior to that, smallpox killed 300 million people around the globe. From late 1900 through 1902, American newspapers reported outbreaks from Boston to San Francisco, and health departments struggled to contain the virus and mitigate its spread. Across the country, individuals were barred from appearing in public under any condition if smallpox had struck their household. Often, marginalized communities were called out by governments and the media as threats: The Ojibwe tribe of the Mille Lacs reservation were “menacing the nearby white settlements” with their smallpox fatalities. The carelessness of the low income Polish district for the disease’s spread. Italians were shamed by public health officials: “No one knows the harm that has been done by these Italians. They have gone from infected homes to work everywhere; they have ridden in street cars, mingled with people, and may have spread the contagion broadcast”. -190106-1.1↓. Sounds familiar with police raids, tearing families apart, anti immigration, isolating people with walls. 190113-VCP-USA. The UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: The health of a World on the Move.
-5.1. Unfounded Myths Used to Justify Policies of Exclusion: Lancet. Public health protection and cost savings are often used as reasons to restrict migrants’ access to healthcare or to deny them entry. Yet, as the new report lays out, the most common myths about migration and health are not supported by the available evidence and ignore the important contribution of migration to global economies. <ADDED 181209-181125-5>3A.
-6. UNDark Weekly Roundup 01.11.2019. A trumped up climate science scandal has reached a quiet conclusion. It began with a breathless 2017 report published by the UK’s Daily Mail, which purported to expose a clear case of scientific malfeasance: Researchers at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had doctored data in a 2015 paper in order to exaggerate global warming trends, the report suggested, and to downplay certain lines of countervailing evidence. The charges were based on the musings of a “whistleblower” and former NOAA climate researcher, John Bates, and it spurred outrage among climate skeptics, including Republican members of Congress, who demanded an investigation. It took little time for the story to fall apart, of course — not least when Bates himself Backpedaled 'Whistleblower' Says Protocol Was Breached but No Data Fraud, claiming that the British tabloid had mischaracterized his largely bureaucratic complaints. The Daily Mail 180826-VCP-Russia, meanwhile, was forced to publish a lengthy correction detailing its own journalistic failures The Independent Press Standards Organisation has upheld a complaint against this article – but an neinvestigation by the federal agency that oversees NOAA, the U.S. Department of Commerce, marched onward. The results of that were quietly published just as the federal government went into shutdown mode late last month Assessment of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Scientific Integrity Policies and Procedures, and researchers only really got wind of it this week, according to Ars Technica Investigation of Noaa Climate Scientists Finds Bupkis. Nothing of substance was found, though some sound recommendations for improving NOAA’s protocols for submitting scientific papers were offered. At the RealClimate blog, climate scientist Gavin Schmidt called the whole affair a “NOAA Thing Burger”, Officially Confirmed adding: “What a colossal and counter productive waste of everyone’s time”. ¶ Russia Undermines Trust in Science by Spreading Lies about Genetic Editing.
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-190106-1.1>1. Evangelicals’ Infallible New Faith: The Gospel of Trump$, The Historical Roots of Evangelical Anti Environmentalism, The US Evangelicals Who Believe Environmentalism Is a Native Evil. What makes this interesting in terms of parademic is I’m Not Anti Trump, I’m Just Pro Jesus: the Evangelicals Stumping for the Democrats, Evangelical Christians Helped Elect Donald Trump, but Their Time as a Major Political Force Is Coming to an End, Who the GOP Should Pick for Select Committee on Climate, Faith in Climate Science. Climate Change Is Paranoia. | As a working term PDWN calls this Exploitive Dominionism vs Stewardship Dominionism (ED\SD), though the Lynn White Thesis is also applicable: Dominionism Rising: A Theocratic Movement Hiding in Plain Sight, A Biblical View of Dominion: Stewardship, Legality of Appointment of Matthew Whitaker Isn't the Issue. Being a Christian Dominionist Is, Evangelical Christian Pastors Frame Environmentalism in Religious Terms, Trump’s EPA Pick Blends Conservative Christianity with Anti Environmental Activism. For Irreligious Evangelicals, Christianity Is about Politics – Not God, Three Reasons Why Evangelicals Stopped Advocating for the Environment. Christian Faith Doesn’t Just Say Disasters Are God’s Retribution, Katharine Hayhoe Talks about Why Climate Change Is Real & Why She Still Has Hope. EPA Discovers Water Flows Downhill [Meme]. PDWN is not aware of any modern religious art* that equates deity in the context of an ecological disaster, except as protection from it [Image]. Does that conflict between ideal of God and Nature cause a conflict of cognitive dissonance with the real of damaging nature in the name of God. ED is associated with moral othering -2- -3-, The Salem Witch Trials - Dehumanizing the Different, When Dancing Plagues Struck Medieval Europe, 190113-VCP-USA. | Existentialism: A Guiding Philosophy for Tackling Climate Change in Cities. This philosophy emphasizes the dynamic between individual choice and collective impacts. Like most aspects of our lives, planning is shaped by philosophies \fs24softlineof how we think the world works, or ought to work. It is perhaps not surprising then that the rhetoric of increasing choice has become more prevalent in recent years. Why People Reject City Trees, [Photo]. How Soon Will Climate Change Force You to Move. Climate Change Is Taking Our Cities Away, Along the East Coast, Rainy Days, High Tides and Sea Rise Make Floods a Part of Life, [Photo, Map], In First, Native American Tribe Displaced by Sea Gets Land to Relocate. Addressing Impacts of Climate Change at the Local Level: Mitigate or Adapt. In Evangelical Country, an Apocalypse of Rising Seas. How 300 Years of Urbanization and Farming Transformed the Planet. | Evangelical Leaders Say Christians Who Support Trump Face An Ethical Challenge, White Evangelicals Have Turned on Refugees, 68% of White Evangelicals Think America Shouldn’t House Refugees, Fellow Evangelicals: Stop Falling for Trump’s Anti Immigrant Rhetoric, Trump Loving Evangelical Leaders Silent as He Bashes Migrants, The Real Border Crisis: Medical Neglect of Migrants in Detention Centers -5↑. We’re Providing Medical Care to a New Type of Migrant — the Climate Migrant. Fox & Friends Host Inaccurately Says That Each ‘Illegal’ Immigrant Costs Taxpayers $80,000. “Immigrants Are Coming over the Border to Kill You” Is the Only Speech Trump Knows How to Give, Claim about 63,000 Americans Being Killed by Illegal Immigrants Is Still Wrong, No, ICE Did Not Arrest 2,000 Undocumented Immigrants for Murder in 2017. [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon]. #Linguistics Hearing Hate Speech Primes Your Brain for Hateful Actions.
-*. There is however secular art about biocalamities. Crafting Takes a Dark Turn in the Age of Climate Crisis. Artists and Climate Change. Artistic Responses to Natural Disasters: The Case of New Orleans 2016. How Computer Simulations May Help Us Understand Religious Behavior, when disaster strikes, people often turn to religion for comfort and support, [Art]. Natural Disasters storms, earthquakes and volcanoes are common in the biblical and mythological stories that inspired much art in earlier centuries and natural disasters allowed artists to show off their ability to affect the viewer. 180930-3‡. Movies are also an art form that both evolves and address biocalamaties, Looking Back at ‘Philadelphia,’ 25 Years Later.
-190106-2.2>2. National Parks, smaller version of impact on larger environment→ National Parks Face Years of Damage from Government Shutdown, Joshua Tree Will Temporarily Close to Address Shutdown Damage, Joshua Tree National Park Will Close After Visitor Damage During Government Shutdown, Damaged Joshua Tree Sparks Outrage as Shutdown Drags On, Joshua Tree National Park Has Been Trashed in the Shutdown. Now Visitors Are Cutting down Trees. Oregon Governor's Husband Cleans Park amid Shutdown, Sends Trump Bill. | Impact on Science→ ldinst HYPERLINK "https://khn.org/morning-breakout/frustrated-scientists-warn-that-rip Frustrated Scientists Warn That Ripple Effects from Shutdown Could Echo for Years to Come, The Shutdown Shows Just How Vital Government Scientists Are, 190106-2‡, #Linguistic Calling it a 'War on Science' Has Consequences. With Key Government Agencies Shut Down, Science Sputters. OR Shutdown Enters Third Week as Drape Wall Dispute Remains Deadlocked. | Health Consequences→ Infants and Pregnant Women Will Soon Pay the Price for Trump’s Wall Shutdown, If Shutdown Continues, SNAP Benefits Could Be Threatened LeavingMillions of Americans Without Help to Buy Food, More than 38 Million People Are on Food Stamps. The Government Shutdown Could Hit Them Hard. When You Have Stage IV Cancer, the Shutdown Is about More than a Missed Paycheck, Most Federal Workers' Health Coverage To Continue During Shutdown, Even If Pay Stops, Government Worker Forced to Ration Insulin Because of Ongoing Shutdown, The Shutdown Is Bad For Anyone Who Eats Food Video, 190113-VCP-USA. Federal Workers Say ‘We Don’t Care’ about Not Getting Paid — Trump Tells Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro, and enjoy food banks and getting unemployment. | Promised revenge→ Trump Says He’s Cut off FEMA Funds for California Wildfires in Bizarre and Misspelled Twitter Rant, guess no one has been able to inform him that FEMA money is a fund to protect federal land; Editorial: California Wildfire Tweet Shows Extent of Trump’s Heartlessness, Trump Said 'Raking and Cleaning' Forests Would Prevent More Devastating Wildfires. But the Government Shutdown Is Stopping the Forest Service from Doing Just That, [Cartoon], Trump Blames California for Wildfires, but Many of the Worst Have Been on Federal Land, Federal Shutdown Has Halted Some Preparations for Wildfires, and it Could Get Worse, <ADDED 181118-180805-6>4. To Prevent Fires, One California Town Says 'Goat Fund Me', crowdfunding to hire goats to clear brush at the edges of town. Now overcome by events (OBE) Officials Hopeful ‘Fire Funding Fix’ Helps Tame Brutal Wildfire Seasons. Trump Repeats Overly Simplistic, False Claim on California’s Wildfires. Trump Threatens Withholding Disaster Funds for California. What Climate Change Will Do to the Forests. | Environmental consequences→ It's a Nightmare: Americans' Health at Risk as Shutdown Slashes EPA, It's Terrifying. What If There's an Outbreak: FDA Workers Worry Shutdown Could Have Deadly Consequences, FDA Says Most Food Inspections Halted amid Shutdown, Here’s How the Government Shutdown Could Affect Your Health, FDA's Routine Food Safety Inspections Disrupted by Shutdown Following a Year Marked by High Profile Outbreaks, The 'Doomsday' Scenario: Here's What Happens If the Shutdown Drags On, House Votes to Reopen Interior, EPA as Shutdown Fight Wages On, The Government Shutdown Is Affecting FDA Food Inspections – but Don’t Panic, Avoid These Foods During the Government Shutdown. 6 Ways the Border Wall Could Disrupt the Environment. FBI Agents’ Union Slams Trump, Says the Shutdown Is Harming National Security, On Patrol with America’s Top Bioterror Cop. | Funding the wall→ GOP Lawmaker Short Circuits When CNN Host Asks If Dem President Could Declare Climate Change a ‘National Emergency’, the congressman may not be aware that a hurricane would damage military bases and defense warning systems, cut transportation, disrupt communication, and several critical targets in the gulf area. Shutdown Hampers Federal Firefighting Agency’s Preparations for Wildfire Season. Trump Could Take Billions from Disaster Areas to Fund Wall, Trump Mulling Use of Disaster Aid to Fund Border Wall; Puerto Rico Governor Fires Back -2- -3- -4-, White House Considers Diverting Billions in Storm, Wildfire Disaster Funding to Build Wall as Shutdown Continues, [Cartoon], Kerry to Trump: Forget 'Fictional' Border Crisis, Declare Emergency for Climate, The Mainstream Media Doesn't Want You to Know the Facts about Border Security, Terrorists and the Southern Border: Myth and Reality. GoFundMe "Trump Wall" Campaign to Refund All Donors after Falling Short of $1 Billion Goal. [Chart].
-Quote: Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes. – Murray Edelman
-181230-3>3. #Book The End of Ice, and the Arctic Communities Already Grappling with a Warming World. A new book highlights the changes endured by inhabitants of the Arctic, serving as a harbinger of what’s to come in lower latitudes, [Cover].
-181216-1>4. India Had Planes and Test Tube Babies Thousands of Years Ago, Science Conference Told. India Scientists Dismiss Einstein Theories, Indian Scientists Dismiss Findings of Issac Newton and Albert Einstein at Major Science Conference and Claim Ancient Hindus Pioneered Stem Cell Research, Indian Science Congress Speakers Say Newton Was Wrong, Ancient Demon King Had Planes. Indian Scientists Protest Congress Speakers Discrediting Works of Newton, Einstein, How Albert Einstein Engaged with India & Why Some Indian Scientists Are Reimagining His Notion of Gravity 2015. | The Persistent Influence of Caste on Under Five Mortality: Factors That Explain the Caste Based Gap in High Focus Indian States. ¶ Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Science, Ma-An. National Geographic Promotes Quackery, is a similar promotion of nationalism via medicine and pseudoscience, 180923-VCP-China.
-181216-4>5, <ADDED 181230>1. Humanitarian Experts Debate Trump's Use of the Term 'Humanitarian Crisis'. Trump Calls Border Security a 'Humanitarian Crisis' in Address to Nation, President Trump Urges Wall Funding to Fix the 'Humanitarian Crisis' on the Southern Border, Trump’s Right: There’s a Humanitarian Crisis at the Mexico Border – and Everything He’s Doing Makes It Worse. This is an illustration of over reaching to reframe a situation so it and actions leading up to it are interpreted differently than it currently is -3↑. This can be a useful technique when people are despair and need a reframe to see hope and solutions. In this case this is intended to deflect blame, similar to when an industrial polluter and major employer, such as mining, deflects blame about health problems and environmental caused by its practices, by claiming outsiders (liberals) are trying to take away jobs -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8- -9-. [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Button.
-181209-4>6. Venezuela Crisis Takes Deadly Toll on Buckling Health System, Photos: The Forgotten Old People of Venezuela. Bare Handed Surgeries as Zimbabwe’s Health System Collapses.
-181118-VCP-China>7, <ADDED 181202>8, <ADDED 181125>8. Poles Protest Govt Plan for Mass Slaughter of Wild Boars. Tens of thousands of Poles are protesting a government plan to hold a massive slaughter of wild boars as a way to stop the spread of the deadly African swine fever among farm pigs. Poland's veterinary and farming officials approved the plan last year to kill 185,000 wild boars this season. Critics are protesting the government's move to speed up that cull by asking all licensed hunters to hunt and kill boars on weekends this month. | 190113-VCP-Poland is not the same disease, but is associated with being from outside Poland , which may fuel nationalist isolationist sentiments. At the same time there is a complication that the boar is symbolic of Polish independence -2-, though not a national symbol [Photo -2-, Art -2-] which if that were culled for say bird flu, could be a major problem.
-180603-1.2>8, <ADDED 181223>6. BIO Applauds House Passage of the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act. Now to see how long it will sit in the Senate and if they will change it enough that it will have to go back to the House.
-180513-1.1>9, <ADDED 190106>4. Ebola: Contact Tracing Improves. Dr. Justus Nsio: Transit Center for Treatment of Ebola Virus Disease Completely Rehabilitated in Beni. Uganda: Eight Suspected Ebola Patients Admitted, 180923-VCP-Uganda. As Congo Delays Election Results, People’s Suspicions Rise, which in turn neutralizes containment and control and fuels conspiracy theories, Ebola: Who Created this Terrible Virus and Why. New Attack in Beni, at Least 10 Dead. Congo Police Gather Outside Electoral Commission, Security Tight as Congo Prepares to Release Vote Results. Ebola's Effect on Elections in the Congo: Public Health Watch. Congo: Opposition Leader Tshisekedi Wins Presidential Vote, H5N1Comment. Was DR Congo's Ebola Virus Outbreak Used as a Political Tool. Catholic Church Rejects Congo Vote Result, Loser Decries Coup, dashing hopes that the country could stage the first uncontested transfer of power, in the last civil war there were several outbreaks. Ebola Staff Attacked by Residents of Marabo. | An projection that will have impact on future outbreaks is that in 30 yearsDRC will be among the top ten most populated countries in the world, the second largest population in Africa. Ebola Readiness – A False Sense of Security. American Monitored for Possible Ebola Did Not Have Disease <ADDED 181230>3. Women Join Hands to Oust Ebola from the DR Congo. In Epidemics, Outbreak Culture Is as Toxic as Disease, How ‘Outbreak Culture’ Can Hinder Infection Control, <ADDED 181223>7, <ADDED 181111>6. ¶ New Ebola like Virus Is Discovered in China. Poliomyelitis - Democratic Republic of the Congo, 190113-VCP-USA.
-180311-6>10, <ADDED 190106>4. Recording of "Sonic Attacks" on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba Spectrally Matches the Echoing Call of a Caribbean Cricket. Remember That Mysterious 'Attack' on US Diplomats in Cuba. Scientists Think it Was Crickets. Mysterious Sonic Attacks on US Diplomats in Cuba May Just Have Been Loud Caribbean Crickets. Cuban Crickets, Not Weapon, Heard by Ill US Diplomats. Sonic Attack on US Diplomats in Cuba Was Just a Very Loud Cricket, Scientists Say. [Flier]. ¶ Cuba Failed to Report Thousands of Zika Virus Cases in 2017, is a indicator that even if innocent of the sonic attack, it still is not completely trustworthy in terms of global health.
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