Read This First, Heuristics (1), Glossary (A-H), Mini Lessons (4)
1. Farming tipping point from inundation and economic collapse/ tipping point, 1.1. Rationalization about heavy rains is all wet, 1.2. How you ask questions about climate influences the answer, 1.3. Establishing a pattern in the trend of actions to assist farmers, 1.4. A dangerous belief about behavior that can lead to dangerous behavior, 2. Missing American women, 3. Perfect disease outbreaks in urban anthromes and refugee camps, 3.1. Poverty + Racism = Living in unhealthy environments, 3.2. Responsibility to improve and repair the world, 4. Are you hungry, or were you taught to be hungry, 5. Answering questions that have obvious answers and testing the assumption the obvious is in fact, fact, <ADDED>1. Living and surviving in the wildfire-urban interface, Applying idea for fire interface to hurricanes on intertidal, >2. Political hijacking of climate, >3. Chernobyl nuclear disaster fiction, followed by another fictional, but the event and consequences are not fiction, >4. In the Jaws of repeated pandemics and panics trust in science and medicine is weakened, >5. Accelerating anti abortion, >6. Hype vs Reality of treatment access and medical scams, >7. Fog of Venezuela, >8. Combining fears becomes official policy, >9. Neutralizing incentive to spread ASF, >10. Frieden scandal denouement, >11. Anti Free Press = Anti Science, >12. The Hot Zone as warning, >13. PAHPA on presidents desk, disaster aid signed, >14. Texas Ebola and previous invasions, >15. Corruption and Ebola. 190609-Vaccine. 190609-Polemic.
Other Topics: BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Infectious Disease, Right to Try, Cancer, Medical Scams, ACA, Medical Access, FDA, Stem Cells, Military Folklore, Mad Cow, Lymes Disease, Suppression of Science and the Press, Mass Extinction, Social Collapse, Linguistics, Fire Risk, Air Pollution, Science Reporting ≠ Science Journalism, Anthromes, Poverty, BioDiversity, Farms, Temperature Swings, Heatwaves, BF Skinner, Behaviorism, SLAI, Megacities, Hijacking, Tikkun Olam
-1. Midwest Flooding Is Drowning Corn and Soy Crops. Is Climate Change to Blame. Completely Catastrophic: Flooding and Tariffs Causing Chaos for Farmers. Epic Floods and Trade Wars - How Politics and Climate Beats up US Farmers. Floods and Trump’s Trade War Create an Uncertain Year for Farmers$. Trump Trade Bailout Complicates Tough Decisions for Farmers Facing Water Logged Fields. Trump to Allow Use of Ethanol Gas in Move to Benefit Farmers, Trump's New Ethanol Rule Explained (And What it Means for Gasoline): It emits more particles into the atmosphere than smog regulations permit, and increases the cost of the food. [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon]. It is the combination of gubergenics, anthropogenics, natural disasters, weakening of capabilities to weather events, and solutions that cause bigger problems that become cascading catastrophic crashing biocalamities. After a Biblical Spring, this Is the Week That Could Break the Corn Belt. Wet ground with warming weather also creates conditions thatcould results in large populations of pests -2- -3- -4- and fungi -2- that harm plants. The Fields Are Washing Away: Midwest Flooding Is Wreaking Havoc on Farmers. ¶ Civilization Could Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now -2- -3-, and collapse of civilization includes science and free press -180805-3.3↓. It may even be worse than just the collapse of civilization, The Great Dying Nearly Erased Life on Earth. Scientists See Similarities to Today. Last Ditch Climate Change Report Provides Locations of Weapons, Current Whereabouts of Oil Executives; however those lobby skills can be turned to other purposes, Why the CEOs of Shell, BP, and 11 Other Major Corporations Have Decided to Lobby DC for Climate Change Legislation, 190609-Polemic-5.8. We All Owe Al Gore an Apology: More People See Climate Change in Record Flooding. Rural Areas More Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise. | Fear Based Climate Appeals Can Be Counter Productive.
-1.1. Record Setting Precipitation Leaves U.S. Soils Soggy. Steve King’s Climate Change Rainfall Claims, Rep. Steve King: Climate Change Is ‘Good’ for Shrinking Deserts, Steve King Tells Iowans Hit by Flooding Not to Worry Because Maybe All That Rain Will Make Deserts Green, for a few weeks earlier in the year than normal, which will disrupt food chains, and there is also the problem of population explosions of rodents, pests and fungi. [Cartoon]. Despite all the rain 1 Billion Acres at Risk for Catastrophic Wildfires, U.S. Forest Service Warns. ¶ Donald Trump Tells Prince Charles US Is Clean on Climate Change, AP Fact Check: Trump Didn’t Set Records on Clean Air in US, Trump’s Parade of False Claims Overseas, AP Fact Check: Trump and the Credit and Blame Game, Fact Check: The US Has among the Cleanest Climates There Are, Does the U.S. Have the Cleanest Air in the World, -180805-3.3↓. Trump Dismisses Prince Charles's Climate Concerns, Says Weather Changes Both Ways, apparently still doesn’t know that climate is not the same as weather or seasons. President Trump Discusses Climate Change with Prince Charles and Blames Other Countries for Inaction, Despite U.S. Emissions Surge. 190602-Polemic-1. Trump Administration Steps up Attacks on Climate Science, [Cartoon], <ADDED 190602-190224-1‡>8. Senate Hearing on Agriculture and Climate Change Featured Industry Speakers, No Climate Scientists, Source Evaluation. Trump Administration’s Attack on Climate Science Goes Full Orwell. White House Climate Review Could Damage Careers, Scientists Warn$, reacting sharply to revelations that the White House is discussing ways to potentially force federal researchers to debate the credibility of mainstream climate science, saying it threatens to pull experts into conspiratorial exercises that might harm their careers, <ADDED 190602-190224-1‡>8.
-1.2. #Linguistics Do Most Americans Believe in Human Caused Climate Change. It depends on how you ask. A survey of more than 7,000 U.S. adults finds that three format changes produce significant changes in estimates of acceptance of human caused climate change. There were three variations in question format: Given the option to respond with a choice of "don't know" or allowed to just skip the question (a "soft" don't know); Provided with explanatory text, or given no additional text apart from the question; Presented multiple choice responses and asked to pick the one that comes closest to their views, or shown a statement and asked how strongly they agreed or disagreed with it. US Court Weighs If Climate Change Violates Children's Rights; Inferences in Perjury Cases, More Prosecutorial Trick Questions, Trial Tactics Used by Attorneys, Teaching Jurors to Spot Logical Fallacies in Deliberation. <ADDED 190602-190505-3>3. Clarence Thomas Knows Nothing of My Work but he used my book to tie abortion to eugenics, -1.4*, -190224-1‡↓, <ADDED 190602-190224-1‡>8C. 190602-Vaccine-3. Scopes Trial Quotes. 190407-VCP-Japan. 190609-Vaccine-6. ¶ There is also the issue of definitions, what is global warming, climate change and Congestion Means Different Things to Doctors and Patients.
-1.3. Past action may indicated what will be done in current situation. Chicken Farmers Thought Trump Was Going to Help Them, but His Administration Did the Opposite -2-. Trump Reassures Struggling Farmers He Has Never Seen One of Them and Cannot Be Sure They Even Exist. Trump’s Mexico Tariff Threat Worries US Farmers Already Pummeled by China Trade War, Economists Quit Trump Admin after Their Studies Showed Tariffs Hurt US Farmers, Trump Pushes for New Bailouts for Farmers Hurt by His Trade War; ¿Trade War? Try Trade Tiff. Trump's Mexico and China Tariffs Aren't Crippling the Economy, or Farmers.
-1.4. Climate Change Predictions Are Influenced by Social Learning. Climate change is caused by humans. If climate change is to be slowed or stopped, it will require human action. Climate systems and human systems are intimately linked, and yet, little is known about the interactions between these systems (i.e. parademic). To better understand how social phenomena impacts climate change, and vice versa, researchers developed a mathematical model that approximates key features of social and climate systems. Their model showed that people adopt climate mitigation strategies through social learning. Over a long enough period of time, social learning patterns can inspire significant changes in human behavior. Unfortunately, social norms have the opposite effect. Social norms reinforce the behavioral patterns of the majority – currently, inaction. Even when mitigation becomes the norm, the new model showed social norms will do little. Social Learning Theory and Social Norms Theory, have a wide range of definitions and are based on dubious behavioral psychology assumptions. It is unclear in the report which definition is used. Moreover this is not an accurate summation of what I assess as a sloppy research paper, Charting Pathways to Climate Change Mitigation in a Coupled Socio Climate Model. Though credible sounding and parademic like, this is not parademic, but is a parademic behavior. Seems to be a complicated way to say people are influenced by their own interpretation but swayed by what the perceived majority or power structure says is what happened. PDWN’s SWAG is that the report has an a priori conclusion* that is politically motivated, one that is likely along the lines of the narrative that nothing can or should be done to change impact of climate change, [Strip, Cartoon]. Why B. F. Skinner, Like Freud, Still Isn't Dead [Cartoon], Why B.F. Skinner May Have Been the Most Dangerous Psychologist Ever [Meme], The Comedy of Behaviorism, [Cartoons].https://parademic.typepad.com/my-blog/2019/06/190609.html -3B, -190519-6↓.
-*. There were several news sources that published the same story; that is the story went viral without actually considering what it means and assuming it was factual without verification. This is commonly found in science reporting (journalism implies active thought, while reporting is simple rote repeating without applying critical thinking. One of the sources is Breitbart which tends to slant and spin toward a behaviorist perspective, climate denial, and being more extreme than THEPA. Another source is Phys.Org which tends toward being among the best available of science journalism – its running the story (most complete version available) implies that the methods and interpretations are valid and can be trusted. Review of material on Climate Science (note not Climate Change) from the University of Guelph -3B↓, indicates consistent valid science. Note further that Ross McKitrick -2-, -3- -4-, Professor of Economics at Guelph, is not an author of the study. He presence at the university likely influences the climate science department to be more rigorous with their work, even though they cannot control misinterpretations and misapplications of their work -1.2↑.
-2. Sister, Where Did You Go: the Native American Women Disappearing from US Cities. This has only been noticed in the last year. Nothing definitive, unknown the extent or how large of a problem, and if it will threaten the population. It is happening throughput the America’s, not just the US, and not just in cities. As far can be determined this is not a conspiracy theory or a moral panic, but how is it being done over such a long time and geographic area is bewildering. The Missing, Native American women and girls have been disappearing for generations, but no one can say how many. Genocide Has Been Committed Against Indigenous Women And Girls, Canadian Panel Says.
-3. New Disease Concerns in Major Cities. Rampant homelessness, poverty, immigration, anti- vaccination sentiment, and poor public sanitation and health policy have all combined to create legitimate concerns about infectious disease outbreak in major U.S. cities. In recent months, diseases not seen in years have been reemerging in the U.S., and now major cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, New York and Los Angeles are facing a potential public health crisis. [Art, Map, Photo]. The Future of Global Health Is Urban Health. PDWN would have a much longer list than this, for example This Map Shows Where Parents Aren’t Vaccinating Their Kids. These cities are all epicenters of megacities that are vulnerable to disease outbreaks [Map]. Five of the eleven spill into neighboring countries, and all are vulnerable to rising water levels and/or drought. It is probably just a coincidence that the cities listed are also anti Trump and sanctuary, -2- -3-, but let’s see if this becomes politicized for the 2020 election, -181202-2↓. Smaller City Effort to Aid Chronically Homeless Can Be Successful. Rising Seas Threaten Australia’s Major Airports – and it May Be Happening Faster than We Think.
-A. One type of urban area that is missed are: refugee camps, shanty towns, migrant camps, slums and favelas -3.1↓, which are magnitudes larger of the same social determinants that of accelerated epidemics will happen, not a question of if but when. Stopping Deadly Infection Outbreaks in the World's Largest Refugee Camp -2- -3- -4- -5- -6-, Agency Watchdog Slams Conditions at ICE Detention Facilities, Migrant Camps Overflow as Mexico Cracks down after Trump Threats*, 190224-VCP-Yemen, 180617-4‡, Rohingya Crisis: Vaccinating Children Inside the World’s Largest Refugee Camp, One Year After US Travel Ban, Facing Illness and Death in Refugee Camp. There are around a billion people in a refugee status, and not all are in camps or are otherwise invisible. 190609-Polemic-3.5. BTW Farms and other places that put animals and plants in close quarter with little to no biodiversity are an equivalent to urban areas that are for flora and fauna. These conditions foster disease outbreaks, -181118-VCP-China↓. Marie Kondo's Advice for Decluttering Threatens the Cultural Heritage of Refugees like Me. 190609-Polemic-3.1.
-*. The context of this is: Fact Check Friday: Trumped up Support. Mexico Agreed to Take Border Actions Months Before Trump Announced Tariff Deal which could be interpreted as he created a crisis that he could “solve” for prove his tariff (terroif) threat works, For Trump, Threats Become Part of Diplomatic Playbook, The US-Mexico Agreement to Avoid Tariffs Is Actually Months Old. [Meme]. Trump Says There’s More in Mexico Deal but Doesn’t Say What. A Drama of Trump’s Own Making Ends with a Familiar Hero. Trump Defends Deal with Mexico That Critics Say Will Do Little to Curb Migrant Crisis. Another threat that is not addressed is temperature extremes with rapid changes, which concurrently overload power infrastructure which may already be at a tipping point, Climate Change Red Lines Closer Than Expected, for the same vulnerable urban populations. In These U.S. Cities, Heat Waves Will Kill Hundreds More as Temperatures Rise, Freezing Weather Threatens Lives of Homeless Americans as Shelters Nationwide Are Pushed past the Limit. India Heat Wave: Temperatures Soar above 120 Degrees, -2- -3- -4- [Map]. It's Important We Get this Right: U of Guelph Prof Says Cities Need Plans to Adapt to Climate Change -2-, -1.4*↑. An Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes, a megacity with Chicago as its epicenter; Global Warming: It Can Do Anything, Climate Change: What Can’t it Do. Extreme Heat to Hit One Third of the African Urban Population, [Map]. Urban Forests Are Dying. Baltimore Shows UW How to Bring Them Back. Democrats Are Turning America’s Big Cities into Petri Dishes for Disease, Brian C. Joondeph, -1.4↑.
- 3.1. The association of occult (backroom) policies for poverty and racism contributing to biocalamity has been known for years, but is now accelerating and emerging as an overt political issue, -A↑. Houston Knows Beto O’Rourke Is Right: Environmental Racism Is Real Here and Throughout America. Inequity in Consumption of Goods and Services Adds to Racial – Ethnic Disparities in Air Pollution Exposure, Environmental Racism: Trump Jr. Mocks ‘Racist Air’, Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution and Who Breathes It. 180506-2‡, 180311-1.1, 180304-7. Air Pollution: Black, Hispanic and Poor Students Most at Risk from Toxins. 180114-5.1.
-3.2. Science Tikkun: A Framework Embracing the Right of Access to Innovation and Translational Medicine on a Global Scale -2-. We're entering an era when global health is being redefined because of the great progress in vaccination and mass drug administration programs on the one hand, yet on the other hand, there is a changing landscape of social determinants, including urbanization, human migrations, rising antiscience, and a paradigm shift in poverty and poverty related neglected diseases. Known as blue marble health. Science tikkun -2- olam -2- -3- offers a framework for ensuring that the world's poor continue to receive access to innovation and technologies in this new world order. The consequences of two sets of opposing forces reductions in global disease burdens due to expanded use of vaccines and essential medicines for disease versus antiscience movements and Anthropocene forces (technology, polemeic, war, urbanization, agriculture, unequal access, pollution, ...) have produced an interesting quilt or patchwork of poverty related neglected diseases. -4↓.
-4. Is Hunger Culture Bound. Over the last decade rural communities have seen vast swaths of their forests and savannas razed to make way for monocropping. These developments are part of efforts to achieve national self sufficiency in basic commodities. On the ground this expansion is undermining local food and water security of communities that have traditionally relied on the forest for their subsistence. Once plentiful game (bushmeat, Why Food Safety in Africa’s Informal Markets must Be Driven by Consumers) have become rare. Aquatic life has been contaminated. Edible fruit, nut, and seed-bearing trees are increasingly hard to find. | These once relied upon ‘forest foods’ have been increasingly replaced by processed foodstuffs. However, processed ‘city foods’, are said to be bland, dry, and tasteless. ‘These foods do not nourish the body. They do not taste of the land. They do not taste of the forest. They do not make you feel full. Instead, they make you more and more hungry’. Many associate destruction of the forest and the arrival of monocrops with a pervasive and constant sensation of hunger. Hunger is also more than just the desire to eat triggered by the lack of food, but extends far beyond the quantitative measurements of calorific intake and nutritional value. Hunger is a moral, affective, and sensory experience – one whose significance transcends the need for physical nourishment. Hunger speaks to the devastating effects of environmental destruction on communities and cultures. Would You Believe Me If I Said I Was Starving. The New Face of Hunger. A Hungry World: Lots of Food, in Too Few Places. It's Not the Food Deserts: It's the Inequality. Yum and Yuck: The Psychology of What We Eat ... and What We Spit Out. ¶ Judaism under Attack: The Orwellian Hijack of Tikkun Olam, -3.2↑, 190609-Polemic-5.6.
-5. ∩ Everyone Knows Money Influences Politics … Except Scientists. Why is it so hard to prove something that’s common knowledge, and why try to do it in the first place. If anything, what’s surprising here is that we didn’t already know this for sure that money influences policics. Despite the topic being the subject of vigorous legal and political debate, despite the fact that most Americans believe it’s happening and see it as a problem, despite the testimony of politicians themselves, decades of research haven’t been able to conclusively prove that money buys influence. In the fall of 2009, as the ACA took shape in the Senate Finance committee, became the opportunity for a natural experiment to test what is a widely accepted assumption. Reams of data that no academic had gotten their hands on before was suddenly available. Ten years of database wrangling later a study that experts say is probably the best evidence we have that money really does influence political decision making. It was a long struggle and a big achievement. It was also a whopping anticlimax. Are you shocked to find out that there’s evidence suggesting campaign donations have power in the halls of congress. | Does evidence matter when it tells us something we’d already thought was true. It seems like a simple question: ¿Does money influence politics?, but trying to answer it quickly becomes an object lesson in how hard it can be to convince someone of the obvious. Likewise, our question is deceptively simple: Does a discovery matter if it tells you something you already knew. Maybe, if it means you’re forced to engage with the deeper, philosophical quandaries that made people ask the question in the first place. Sometimes, the answer depends on more than evidence. It depends on what you meant by the question.
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-190602-2>1. This California Neighborhood Was Built to Survive a Wildfire. And it Worked. Rancho Santa Fe, like so many other California communities, sits on the vulnerable border between development and open space. Firefighters have a name for this: the wildland-urban interface. Essentially, it means things you don’t want to burn, like houses, have been built next to something that’s supposed to, the ecosystem. The transformation of Rancho Santa Fe into a fire aware town had begun more than a decade earlier. Many Fire Prone California Towns Don’t Plan for Evacuations. End Where We Began: Paradise Teens Graduate after Wildfire, 190519-3, <ADDED 190421-190217-7>1.
-A. Same general concepts could apply to hurricanes: Living Shorelines Use Oyster Shells and Marsh Grass to Reverse Coastal Erosion (Video), Living Shorelines Help to Protect Coastal Communities from Impacts of Hurricanes, Evaluation of Living Shoreline Techniques (Document), From Gray to Green: Replacing a Bulkhead with a Living Shoreline at a High Energy Riverine Site. Everyone Would Have Left: Putting Lessons from Hurricane Michael to Work. How this Coastal City Is Preparing Businesses, Residents for Fight Against Climate Change. The Economic Cost of Devastating Hurricanes and Other Extreme Weather Events Is Even Worse than We Thought.
-190526-6A>2. What If Climate Change and Rising Nationalism Both Had the Same Solution. Countries riven by inequality and xenophobia won't be resilient to climate change – which means that the fight against nationalism and the fight against global warming are actually one and the same. How to Hijack a Climate Change Hearing. Hijack 190303-VCP-Research, <ADDED 190120-180603-1.2>7. 190609-Vaccine-4. Trump Unfairly Claims Credit for Rise in Economic Inequality That Occurred under Obama’s Watch.
-190519-6>3. What HBO's “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong$, What HBO's Chernobyl Gets Right (And Wrong) about the World's Worst Nuclear Power Plant Accident, HBO's Chernobyl Series Invented a Main Character to Depict the World's Worst Nuclear Power Plant Accident, HBO’s Chernobyl Is a Terrific Miniseries. Its Writer Hopes You Don’t Think It’s the Whole Truth, Chernobyl’s Stellar Finale Makes a Case for the Show as Science Fiction, it also cements the show’s status as one of the best TV shows of the year. Chernobyl Miniseries – The Good and Bad. | Russia apparently wants to change the narrative about the Soviet era of culture of secrecy to, Russian TV to Air its Own Patriotic Retelling of Chernobyl Story, Russian TV to Air its Own Version of Chernobyl, Which Implies CIA May Be to Blame, Russia's Answer to HBO's Chernobyl: a New Series with Alternative View. It has been consistently found that hiding rot results in them festering, spreading further and more dangerous when finally exposed. It does not matter if the agent is temperature, gas, pathogen, nuke, unsafe condition, toxins, pollutants of air land and water, the longer it has to grow the larger the problem will be when it accelerates. 15 Quotes from Chernobyl That Will Leave You Questioning the System We Are All a Part Of, -2- -3-. -1.4↑. 190609-Polemic-5.7.
-190421-5>4. #Book Ebola, H.I.V., Spanish Flu, SARS — the 20th Century’s Deadliest Hits In “The Pandemic Century”, covers nine outbreaks that shaped how we think and respond to diseases. The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum. Medical historian Honigsbaum’s new book is in large part about the complacency that mistaken professional confidence can create in the public, and although the book is about killer viruses, the opening example is far more dramatic: the series of shark attacks that shocked the eastern seacoast of the United States in the broiling-hot summer of 1916. A whole array of experts, including the director of the American Museum of Natural History, had been telling the public for years that they were in no danger of being attacked by sharks in the waters off the Northeast’s beaches. There was no chance of attacks in those waters, those specialists declared, and no shark had the jaw power to sever a human leg with a single bite. 190602-3.
-190224-1‡>5. <ADDED 8*‡BtoG. -1.2↑, -181202-2↓. Abortion Exceptions for Rape Don't Ensure Victims of Rape like Me Can Get Abortions. [Cartoon]. Illinois Senate Passes Abortion Rights Bill, Sending Measure to Democratic Governor's Desk. Fate of Missouri's Only Abortion Clinic at Stake as St. Louis Judge Holds Hearing, Judge: Doctor Testimony Not Needed in Missouri Abortion Case, Missouri Judge Throws out State Subpoenas in Planned Parenthood Case, Missouri Official Stresses Safety over Abortion Access, ACLU Sues Missouri Secretary of State for Denying Abortion Bill Referendum. In Fiery House Hearing over Abortion, Dems Invoke 'Handmaid's Tale' Imagery as GOP Rails Against Loose Laws in Blue States. Judge Questions Reasons for Indiana Abortion Procedure Ban, The Indiana Abortion Law the Supreme Court Upheld Isn't the End of Roe. But It's Cruel for the Sake of Cruelty. Poll: More Americans Say Abortion Stance Would Stop Them from Voting for Candidates. North Carolina House Fails to Override Governor's Veto of 'Born Alive' Abortion Bill. Early Abortion Bans: Which States Have Passed Them. Poll: Majority Want to Keep Abortion Legal, but They Also Want Restrictions. Federal Judge Weighs Idaho’s Doctors Only Abortion Rules. 12 Attorneys General Say Recent Abortion Bans Appear to Be Unconstitutional. What Hollywood Boycotts Would Really Do to Georgia.
-190203-3>6. <ADDED 190602>9. Right to Try Laws Provide Little Access to Investigational Drugs. We Created a Process That Does. State and federal legislation targets the FDA as the key obstacle in giving the dying quicker access to unapproved drugs. That is simply ridiculous. The FDA does not make or control access to unapproved drugs. Those drugs are the property of the drugs’ sponsors: companies and academic institutions and their investors. The FDA can’t make them give anything to anyone. Compassion for people who are dying is ethically commendable. Duping them with ideologically driven laws that provide no help is not. When legislators get near issues of access in our health care system they need to know what is involved lest they leave our most vulnerable citizens with nothing but rhetoric and press releases. US Aims to Help More Cancer Patients Try Experimental Drugs, and the more human guinea pigs there are to test drugs, the faster safe cancer drugs will be available to elites who have more right to live than the poor. 190526-8, <ADDED 190512-190210-1.1>9, 190210-1.1A, <ADDED 190210-190203-3>1. Maybe better than faster access to drugs is better and equal access to care in the first place, ACA Linked to Reduced Racial Disparities, Earlier Diagnosis and Treatment in Cancer Care. Community That Came Together to Pay for Kid’s Cancer Treatment Goes Bankrupt Too.
-A. There still remains the issue of medical scams being legitimized by right to try, My Patient Swapped Chemotherapy for Essential Oils. Arguing Is a Fool’s Errand, The Deadly False Hope of German Alternative Cancer Clinics, True Believers, Entrepreneurs, and Scammers in Alternative Medicine. This is not a new issue but dates back to ante neolithic. Originally these scams were magical thinking* and the only medical treatment. Now we know more about the actual causes and are starting to learn real medical treatment, but some people insist that it’s better to live by past superstition, #Book The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America [Cover], The Health Robbers: How to Protect Your Money and Your Life. FDA to Make it Easier for Doctors to Get Unapproved Cancer Drugs for Patients$. How Quackery Sells, is eerily a mirror of THEPA: Appeals to Vanity, Turning Customers into Salespeople, The Use of Fear, Hope for Sale, Clinical Tricks, Handling the Opposition. In parademic terminology these are: moral panic, fear mongering, suspension of disbelief, false hope, deceptive rhetoric, logical fallacies, gaslighting, suppression of evidence, and neutralizing critical thinking. Chronic Lyme Disease: Fake Diagnosis or Pseudo Diagnosis, Not Fake Disease. Katie Britton-Jordan: Sadly, Vegan Diets Don’t Cure Cancer. The FDA Brings the Hammer down on Two Quack Stem Cell Clinics, Judge Deals Major Blow to Burgeoning Stem Cell Industry with Ruling That FDA Can Regulate Eye Treatment Listicle. In a sense Scam Contractors Preying on Victims of Natural Disasters by offering an alternative treatment for a health disaster that only involves a few individuals spread over time, which makes it harder to identify and then do something about than the larger real estate related scams. Genetic Testing: the next Big Arena for Fraud. Walmart Sued for Deceiving Customers in Selling Homeopathic Remedies.
-*Quotes: They don't want us crossing the perimeter. Faith Healer must have put her in isolation. We, we need to go in. The sickness has entered because of a curse. What if we show them our gloves and masks now. ¿Against a curse? No, they see this as something deeper, more spiritual. What's spiritual about a virus. Nothing, they know it's a virus, an illness, that makes them sick. What makes it spiritual is why it targets a specific person That's where beliefs, witchcraft, faith comes in. Someone is given the illness for a reason. .... I let you in the hut, they think you're going to spread the disease. They want to blame someone. ... D.C. may be a thriving modern metropolis, but at the end of the day, it's just a village like any other. Fear is fear. -180729-11↓.
-181209-4>7. <ADDED 190602>12. Trump Says Russia Pulled its People from Venezuela -*A↓. Interesting conundrum. How to evaluate a statement from an individual known to make statements not based on evidence or despite evidence, Trump on Climate Change Report: I Don't Believe it; Has demonstrated willingness to create evidence <ADDED 190602-190224-1‡>8, [Cartoon]; Who tends toward exaggeration especially regards to himself, Trump Tells Russia to Get its Troops out of Venezuela, Trump Says He Has Natural Instinct for Science When it Comes to Climate Change; and Who has likely been hoodwinked several times by a country that is known for manipulation of information [Cartoon, Tweet, ]. Presumably this was checked since it was first reported two days prior, but the verbatim argues against any verification. In a Blow to Maduro, Russia Withdraws Key Defense Support to Venezuela$ is different, but is suspect as an unreliable news source also reports it, Moscow 'Withdraws Hundreds of Key Defense Advisers from Venezuela with Just a Few Dozen Now Left in the Country' in a Fresh Blow to President Maduro. In any case people are still at risk from a collapsed health system, which has been spilling over into other countries. Whether true, half true, or not true, this makes the situation even less clear. 190609-Polemic-3.1.
-*A. Kremlin Says Venezuela Pullout Trump Tweeted About Didn't Happen, Russia Denies Telling Us of Personnel Withdrawal from Venezuela, -2- -3- -4- -5-. Putin Says Trump Shares Arms Race Fears, Urges Practical Steps.
-181202-2>8. This looks like a combination of the infant fetal tissue anti abortion/ vaccination -190224-1‡↑, anti GMO (frankenbabies), anti foreigners (Asians)/ immigrants*‡, and anti science. [News Page] Congress Weighs Dropping Ban on Altering the DNA of Human Embryos Used for Pregnancies, House Committee Votes to Continue Ban on Genetically Modified Babies; 2 Chinese Babies with Edited Genes May Face Higher Risk of Premature Death, Trump Administration Tightens Restrictions on Fetal Tissue Research, the result of this trend is that China will lead on and benefit from genetic research, not the US; With 2020 in Mind, Trump Overruled Top Health Official on Fetal Tissue$, Democratic 2020 Contenders Are Seizing on Wave of Antiabortion Laws. -3↑. NIH Has Referred 16 Allegations of Foreign Influence on U.S. Research to Investigators.
-*‡. Migrant Children Stuck at Border Stations, Sleeping on Concrete, Because of HHS Overcrowding, there will be more deaths of children at border stations if Health and Human Services does not increase its capacity. I’m pretty sure this is not a use of the Economy Act that was intended. Trump Admin Ending Legal Aid, English Classes for Migrant Children in US Shelters. Immigrants Help to Alleviate U.S. Health Care Staffing Shortage.
-181118-VCP-China>9. <ADDED 190602>10. -3A. China to Offer Financial Support to Sow Farms to Rebuild Pig Herd. Brazil Suspends Beef Exports to China Due to ‘Mad Cow’ Case. China to Increase Examination of Canadian Pork Imports. No Way to Stop It: Millions of Pigs Culled Across Asia as Swine Fever Spreads. African Swine Fever Is Spreading Fast and Eliminating it Will Take Decades. Pig Ebola Is Spreading Uncontrollably in China and Vietnam, perhaps trying to motivate behavior with scary word, -180729-11↓. | Seoul: N Korea Ignores Calls for Joint African Swine Efforts, 190609-Polemic-5.2. | How ASF was eradicated in the Czech Republic.
-180826-5>10. <ADDED 190310>12. Former CDC Chief Pleads Guilty to Disorderly Conduct Violation Listicle. Still not known why this was not exploited by the Trump administration, especially with his opposition to Trump’s Stop the Flights in 2014 [Tweet]. Possibly the combination that drawing attention to sexual harassment was not in its best interest, and unnecessary as Frieden was neutralized as a voice against current policies and actions. [Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon, Cartoon. Cartoon, Tweet].
-180805-3.3>11. -1↑. EPA Head Accuses Reporters, Green Group of Colluding on Press Coverage, Trump Administration to Press: Stop Talking about Climate Change, EPA Head Says Media 'Does a Disservice' by Not Promoting Agency's Achievements -1.1↑, The EPA’s Increasing Hostility Toward the Press, The EPA Bars Media from a Meeting about Toxic Chemicals — Yes, That's as Scary as it Sounds. EPA Sued for Keeping Scientists off Advisory Committees, 190106-1. 180902-2, 180722-4, 180513-1.1A, 171105-4. White House on Banning CNN Reporter from Event: We Support a Free Press. Julianna Margulies Says US Is Run by Crazy People Who Deny Science, 190609-Polemic-4.1. The U.S. Ranks Worse than 47 Countries for this Basic Freedom. Battle over Science Roils EPA.
-180729-11>12. <ADDED 190602>11. The Hot Zone Quotes. Study Guide- The Hot Zone - Quotes and Analysis, -190203-3AQuote↑. The Hot Zone Review: A Historical Horror with a Relevant Warning About Ebola and Pandemics. The Hot Zone Bosses Break down Writing about Ebola and Not Depicting the Monkeys as Villains. The Hot Zone Is a Warmed Over Take on a Familiar Disaster Story. There are several hoorah -2- -3- -4- military quotes from the TV series, especially episode 4 Expendable, 190609-Polemic-4.1Quotes. Hot Zone Reveals True Story of War on Ebola. -180513-1.1↓, -181118-VCP-China↑.
-Quote 1: CHAIRMAN: “So, no one died”. “That's correct, but four people tested positive for the Ebola virus, and 172 people were tested and came up negative, while an employee at an international airport tested positive for Ebola antibodies”. “The man was asymptomatic. Even the Hazleton employees who exhibited fever were most likely just had the flu, not Ebola Zaire. This strain burns through monkeys, but it hasn't been fatal to humans”. “But if it had been Ebola Zaire, it could have killed countless people in D.C., hitched a ride on our highways, and landed in neighborhoods all across the states. Looking at Reston as some sort of failure on the part of the virus ignores the extraordinary leap the virus has made. Only an idiot would think that this fight is over. Ebola is evolving and strengthening - while we sit here”. “I think we can all agree that we dodged a bullet here. If there are no further questions”. “We didn't dodge a bullet. We didn't dodge a bullet. The bullet hit us”. “I think we're set. Let's reconvene next week”. “I think we should hear what they have to say”. “This strain is so similar to Ebola Zaire a small change we don't understand, in a genetic code we can't comprehend it's maybe all that saved us. We won't be that lucky forever. ¿And you know who gets it first? Caregivers. A nurse () spreads it from one patient to the next, and when she falls ill, her husband or her daughter tends to her. The Ebola virus spreads when we show each other love, kindness, affection. When we're most human [Photo, Photo]. We have to stop reacting to virus outbreaks after they flare up and instead plan for it, because there will be another Ebola outbreak and we are not prepared”. “Protocols have to be put in place using the procedures we tested at Reston, and it's no secret the CDC needs more funding for research and development. We need stronger surveillance networks, and we need to partner with other countries around the world to stay in front of another outbreak”. “This outbreak was a warning. We can choose to ignore it or we can face the future with eyes wide open. My question to you There is a deadly pathogen coming for us. What are we gonna do about it. One of the answers to this question is -180603-1.2↓, but that is not nearly enough and has been delayed and underfunded.
-Quote 2: The emergence of HIV, Ebola, and any number of hot agents appears to be a natural consequence of humanity encroaching on previously undisturbed environments. You might say the Earth's immune system has recognized the presence of its most destructive pathogen, humans. Emerging viruses continue to mutate and survive, even when faced with the destruction of their natural environment. And when they return, they're stronger than they were before. As we deforest these viruses' homes, wipe out their reservoir hosts, they need a new one to spill over into us. Viruses have been around for billions of years because they're smart. The Ebola virus feeds, and then it retreats back into the shadows, where it learns, mutates. Believe me when I tell you this monster will be back again. And we need to be ready.
-180603-1.2>13. <ADDED 190519>9. Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness, Response Bill Heads to Trump Following House Approval. House Bill Would Help Prevent Outbreaks of Measles, Other Contagious Diseases, 190609-Vaccine-3, Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Bill Passes House and Senate, Congress Passes Legislation Authorizing Critical Biodefense Programs. | House Overcomes GOP Objections and Clears Disaster Bill, Climate Change Threatens the West's Far Right$. U.S. House Fails to Pass Disaster Aid Bill; 2nd Attempt Likely next Month, A House Republican Is Holding up $19 Billion in Disaster Aid Funding – Again, Senate Passes Massive Disaster Aid Package, Senate Reaches $19 Billion Deal for Disaster Aid Without Border Wall Funding, Disaster Aid Bill Stalled After Republican Blocks House Vote, The Disaster Aid Fight Shows Just How Unprepared Congress Is to Deal with the Effects of Climate Change, <ADDED 190113-190106-2.2>2. Disaster Aid Is a Disaster Because Congress Shouldn't Be Deciding What Victims Need. Trump Signs Long Stalled $19.1B Disaster Relief Bill -2-*, This Is a Lie: Schumer Bashes Trump for Claim about Puerto Rico and Disaster Aid, <ADDED 190602-190519-2>2. -180729-11Quote1↑. *Unknown why, but it is interesting that Trump signed this bill right away, which he fought, but has not signed the PAHPA which would be in line with the United States Government Global Health Security Strategy 190512-6.
-180513-1.1>15. <ADDED 190421>4A. US: The return of Ebolanoia. Five years ago, I wrote a piece for about Ebolanoia (termed Ebolaphobia in PDWN, though baloney and paranoia is apt), a term coined by Maryn McKenna to describe the over the top reaction to a handful of Ebola cases in the US. Ebolanoia certainly infected a lot of American politicians. In hindsight, Ebolanoia looks like a crack in the plaster that hints at deeper structural damage, because such damage has become increasingly apparent since then (acceleration). You can almost hear the building groan before it collapses altogether. On April 15, I posted about the Ebola scare on the Texas border, where confirmed cases were. A month later I ran across a genuine fake news site promoting the same nonsense. And it's still going on. Makes sense that Texas is the location given for this fake news, but not necessarily the source of it. Much of the fearmongering of Ebolaphobia -2- prior to the 2014 election stemmed from the Duncan and two nurses -180729-11↑ Ebola cases in Texas. Texas has been given the location of many different myths of border crossing, not to mention its history of anti Mexican sentiment. Add desire the build a wall and the history of the Zimmermann Telegram, it is not surprising that it is easy to start of viral rumor about Ebola infected terrorists from ISIS of the Congo to have spontaneous generation. Migrant Caravan Fearmongering Is the New Ebola Panic, Remember the U.S. Ebola Crisis. The Only Epidemic Was Fearmongering. Immigrant Health Access in Texas: Policy, Rhetoric, and Fear in the Trump Era.
-140817-1.79. D. Ebola, Drug Resistant TB, Dengue Fever Are Coming into the U.S. This bit of paranoia echos the current anti immigration along the US Mexico border. There is a long history of fear of invasion from Mexico, and during WWI Germany effectively fanned this fear – including adding xenophobic Yellow Peril, a term coined by Kaiser Wilhelm II – as a means to keep the US out of the European war by causing with Mexico. This backfired with the World War I: Zimmerman Telegram, but the same techniques were effective in neutralizing Czarist Russia, Germany Puts Lenin in Power, enhanced by the concurrent Typhus on the Eastern Front.
-140831-9. [Cartoon] Continuation of 140817-1.79D↑. One of the reasons for persistent rumors, misinformation or folklore is that they indicate a real concern, but find different expressions to suit the social needs as they change. “El Qaida”: The Persistent, Baseless Claim That Terrorists Will Swarm the U.S. From Mexico. The concerns about Mexico are real enough. Just south of the US border there is what amounts to a Civil War that has lasted for more than a century. The American southwest is former Mexican territory (former territories that succeeded, homesteaded by Americans, were lost in the Mexican American war, or part of the Gadsden Purchase), and seeing an increasing Hispanic population fuels fears of retaking the territory. Lastly there is crime and drugs that have found a large market in the US that originates in the US. Not much of a leap to be concerned about other types of invasions. The above and The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming! are a repeat of the Japanese bases in WWI and WWII, Secret Japanese Submarine Bases On the Pacific West Coast, which was conveniently destroyed Japanese Base in Mexico During World War II. 170827-2*A.
-180513-1.1>15. <ADDED 190602>13. Butembo: Nurses Threaten to Go on Strike to Demand Their Risk Premiums and Safety. This non payment of salary and other fees has happened in other outbreaks. Usually associated with corruption as donated money is intended to help payrolls and supplies, but doesn’t always seem to arrive. DRC Ebola Cases Pass 2,000, Prompting Call for 'Total Reset', Ebola Hits 2,000 Cases as Vaccine Ok'd in Some Pregnant, Lactating Women, No 'Reset' with Ebola Outbreak, WHO Official Says; Almost 2,000 Ebola Cases Confirmed in Dr Congo as Crisis Worsens, International Community Urged to Act as Number of Ebola Cases Hits 2,000, Alarm as Ebola Outbreak Reaches 2,000 Cases, Picks up Speed, Oxfam Reaction to the Number of Ebola Cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Reaching 2000. WHO Sees Progress in Ebola Response, but Others See a Grimmer Reality, One in Four Ebola Cases Undetected in Congo: WHO, Ebola Outbreak May Last up to 2 Years, WHO Says, Large Ebola Outbreaks New Normal, Says WHO. WHO Adapts Ebola Vaccination Strategy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Account for Insecurity and Community Feedback, CDC Director Expects to Run out of Ebola Vaccine. Psychological Support for Life after Ebola. -180729-11↑. Ebola Claims over 1,000 Lives, Guterres Commits Whole UN System, to Help End the Outbreak. The Ongoing Ebola Epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018–2019. 190609-Polemic-3.2 -4.1Quotes.
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