1. 2020, 2. Spiraling Cascades, 3. Unanswered Uncertainty, 4. Star Polarization.
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, Placenta Eating, Insurance, Wildfires, Tipping Points, Inflation of Health Costs, Star Wars, Framing
-1. Next week will be 2020, which may prove to begin an uncertain denouement decade of human biological history, though the biocalamities and parademics started well before this. Humans – at least those in contemporary Western cultures – tend to divide modern historical periods into decades, associating a retronym of a global historical event to that decade; 1900 age of invention, 1910 WWI, 1920 Roaring, 1930 economic depression.... 2020 will be significant because of a US presidential election that is a focus of negative anthropogenic behavior. There is also the idiom of 20/20 hindsight, 20/20 being considered normal (not perfect) vision, possibly indicating that in the future the slowly evolving biocalamities. At this time it appears that trends of environmental change cannot be altered. There will be inundations and severe droughts on land, extreme swings in inclemental weathers =2=, syndemics, aquatic dead zones, famine, armed conflicts, possible decline in cognition.... All of this will be attended with concurrent cultural changes of perception, interpretation, technology, and very likely severe depopulations and migrations of multiple species to include homo sap, as the global environment becomes more inimical to current means of sustaining life. Survival Camps Cater to New Fear: America's Political Unrest. The Nine Planetary Boundaries 191208-1.
-2. There is a spiraling cause and effect loop relation between biocalamity and parademic. For example Wildfires Cause Turmoil in CA Property Insurance Market is the impact of megafire on insurance, while human behavior contributed to the phenomena of megafires, and megafires impact on far more that just insurance, which will in turn impact of biocalamities.
-3. Placenta Eating Went Mainstream When Many Doctors Stopped Listening =2=. Preparers of pills made from placental tissue have gained online momentum, claiming to support each new mom in her slog to recovery. A historian traces the trend to a mother's need to be heard.
-4. Star Wars and the U.S. Health Care System Share This: Bloat. The final film in the epic Star Wars saga, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” hit theaters this weekend. It should have had fans around the world buzzing. Instead, many of them are either yawning with disinterest, or speculating on about just how bad the last installment in the 40 year old series might be. Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker Is Turning Middling Reviews into Massive Money. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Was Designed to Be the Opposite of The Last Jedi. Seeing the New Star Wars. Be Careful What You Wish For. Illustration of the larger phenomena that health marketing, polls, economic metrics, opinions are more likely to reflect framing interpretation according to people believe, not the 20/20 hindsight of reality.
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