1. Climacteric, 2. Direct Cash Aid, 3. Samoan Avoidable Outbreak, 4. Contagious, Non Contagious, Other.
Other Topics: BioPolitics, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental (Climate) Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Infectious Disease, Polemic, Vaccination, Mephetic, Unintended Consequences, Misinformation, Bioeconomics, Learned Helplessness, BioDiversity, Measles, Antivax, Social Media, Acceleration
-1. Nine Climate Tipping Points Now Active, Warn Scientists. The term “tipping point” does create a motivating image of a critical system in precarious balance having one last “straw” where the whole suddenly collapses. However, tipping point is intuitively inaccurate. Huge intricate systems that have multiple points of support (and failure) just don’t seem to be something that will collapse from small changes. This makes an impending total tipping point appear as a massive exaggeration. In terms of the biosphere there are many tipping points, not just the one before a crash, but an accumulation of ups (such as the tipping point of an acceleration*) and downs that cause the whole to wildly sway more and more, becoming increasing unstable and unable to recover from loss. When speaking of global environmental change, it is the accumulation of small tipping points that dump a little, causing a larger swing that tips another section more with more loss. In fact there could be so many losses over time that the system stabilizes at a much lower plateau. This new normal could be rationalized as alarmists overstating the threat. Climate Change: Scientists Warn of Irreversible Crisis as Earth May Have Crossed Tipping Point. Climate Change 'Tipping Points' Too Close for Comfort. UN Chief Warns Countries That the Point of No Return on Climate Change Is Fast Approaching.
-*A. In general acceleration occurs when part of a sub system receives more impetus (energy, food, water, air, access to a resource) than is needed to maintain a steady state and begins to climb in numbers, grow in size, or increase in habitats occupied. This growth is accompanied by decelerations in other systems (pollutants and/or decrease of energy, food, water, air, resources). Biocalamity is a normal part of the dynamic equilibrium of the biosphere. The challenges come when the acceleration is not balanced by a deceleration for a prolonged period, i.e. an accelerated biocalamity. The growth can potentially go well beyond carry timely capacity and sustainability. If the acceleration does not self correct it will eventually decelerate into what could be a very abrupt crash, and crashes can cascade into other systems causing accelerations and decelerations.
-B. What needs to be kept in mind is that accelerations occur in the context of other accelerations, decelerations and ever changing carrying capacity. It is not recognizing (surveillance and monitoring) the combination of these represent a trend that will excess sustainment and capacity. A classic example is a company making huge profits, but due to biased unexamined assumptions about continued growth, not looking for waves of accumulating decelerating trends, or that profit was made by cuts of productive income sources.
-‡. Heat Waves and Floods Shattered Records. Fires Ravaged the Arctic and the Amazon. This Was the Climate Crisis in 2019. Earth Has a Couple More Chances to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change. This Week Is One of Them. UN Emissions Report: World on Course for More than 3 Degree Spike, Even If Climate Commitments Are Met. Global Levels of Biodiversity Could Be Lower than We Think, New Study Warns. Climate Crisis Not Getting Better. Climate Change Hits Health, Yet Funds Lacking. [Cartoon]. The Year the World Woke up to the Climate Emergency. The Climate Change Health Risks Facing a Child Born Today: A Tale of Two Futures. The Incredible Story of How Climate Change Became Apocalyptic. Climate Tipping Points – Too Risky to Bet Against$.
-2. This contradicts most economic theory and humanitarian aid programs, and there is contrary evidence about learned helplessness =2= [Slide] that is exacerbated by handouts. However, it does appear there are social circumstances that is conducive toward giving people the resources to better themselves is effective and synergistic. Researchers Find a Remarkable Ripple Effect When You Give Cash to Poor Families. Why Giving Tuesday Raises an Uncomfortable Moral Dilemma. Searching for the Nexus: It’s All about the Money, there’s still a contradiction between what the donors signed up to and what they’re doing on the ground.
-3. This is the typical pattern whether a disease outbreak is from crashing into a natural reservoir, or caused by human negligence. Tourism Cancellations Foreshadow Economic Aftershock. Samoa Measles: 4,052 Cases, 60 Deaths. Samoa to Shut down in Push for National Measles Vaccination Coverage, Measles Outbreak Spurred by Antivaxxers Shuts down Samoan Government, Samoa to Shut Government to Deal with Deadly Measles Outbreak. Measles in Samoa: Many Still Visiting Traditional Healers.
-A. How a Wrong Injection Helped Cause Samoa's Measles Epidemic, Samoan Nurses Jailed over Deaths of Two Babies Who Were Given Incorrectly Mixed Vaccines, 190609-Vaccine-5.
-B. Presumably antivax measures its success by: alternative products $$$$old, power in government, hits and shares on social media, and numbers of converts. The cost and number of lives are probably not a consideration and likely blamed on anything but their own actions. New Normal: How a More Robust, Globalised Antivax Movement Targeted Samoa, Anti Vaccine Groups Take Dangerous Online Harassment into the Real World. Anti Vaccination Seminar Planned for Samoa Cancelled, WAG Taylor Winterstein Compares Vaccinations in Samoa to Nazi Germany after 32 People Die from Measles, Samoa Measles Vaccinations Compared to Nazi Germany by Social Media Influencer, Samoa Measles Death Toll Rises to 37 amid Antivax Push. Samoa Warns Against Antivaxxers; Issues New Emergency Orders. Antivaccine Activists and the Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa. Are Deadly New Rogue Strains of Mutating Measles Spreading Like Wildfire. Antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Writes to Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi about Measles in the Middle of an Outbreak, his deceptive pseudoscientific talking points became the template for antivaxers seeking to deflect blame from themselves. Samoa Arrests Vaccination Critic amid Deadly Measles Crisis =2= =3= =4= =5=. Vaccinators Turned Away by Some Families. Editorial: Measles Outbreak in Samoa Shows What Can Happen When Vaccine Opponents Prevail. The Timeline of the Measles Epidemic in Samoa.
-C. Samoa Measles Outbreak: Hang Red Flags Outside Homes of the Unvaccinated, Government Says. Samoa Adopts Black Death Tactics in Measles Epidemic as Antivaxxers Go Feral. Why Samoa Is Being Devastated by Measles. Samoa’s Capital Deserted as Teams Battle Measles Epidemic. American Samoa Declares Measles Outbreak, Closes Schools [Map].
-D. Taking a Shot with Antivaxxers, how one student immersed herself in the debate over vaccinations on social media. | A similar situation exists in the US and Europe with flu =2= =3= and measles =2= =3=, though having more medical access they can control the mortality, sometimes at great expense (more than the cost of a vaccine) and sequala. More than 140,000 People Worldwide Died from Measles Last Year, Most of Them Younger than 5.
-4. What is Communicable. Unaccounted Injuries and Catching Diabetes in an Illegible Epidemic. Long accepted models of causality cast diseases into the binary of either contagious or non communicable, typically with institutional resources focused primarily on interrupting infectious disease transmission. How to survive in between public health categories, is there a para communicable, and why it matters to reframe narratives about contributing causalities in relation to struggles for treatment access. It is useful to identify and examine one’s own assumptions to determine if they are hindering control, containment and treatment, and change accordingly. One should also identify and examine the assumptions of the population affected by the biocalamity that assist or hinder medical and other support, but the population does not necessarily change accordingly but those providing the control, containment and treatment.
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