Parademic Database Week Notes Ending 200202 Names

Updated 211011

1. Naming and Labels, 2. Misused Science, Zika, Microcephaly, Scientific Racism, Anthropometry, Malnutrition, Linguistic Relativism, Migration Policy, 3. Proxies for Anxiety, <Cont>1. Coronavirus, Evacuation, Quarantine, Conspiracy Theories, Flight and Travel Bans, Masks, Hoarding, School Closures, Disease Racism, Political Cartoon, Medical Robots, Zombies, Information Sharing and Acceptance, Unprepared, Antivax, Olympics, Stock Market, Medical Surge, Food Supplies, Flu. He05 Cult

-1. Naming a disease is not simple. The process and acceptance of a name is fraught with complications. Why Naming the New Coronavirus Isn’t as Easy as it May Seem, It’s Been Sequenced. It’s Spread Across Borders. Now the New Pneumonia Causing Virus Needs a Name, WHO Declines to Name New Pneumonia after 'China' or 'Wuhan', -200112-2¶>1↓. So far there is no generally accepted word for the current 2019 Chinese NovelCoV Wuhan Virus. The different names may in part reflect on ideological spin to lead interpretation of the outbreak in the way desired. This happened with 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu, and is still happening with Global Warming of Human Caused Climate Change. Then there is the matter of how to label a bioevent: extinction level, catastrophic, normal; outbreak, epidemic, panic. To name something and then put it in a category gives the illusion that it is understood, and if understood can be controlled. | Coronavirus: Time to Call it a Pandemic =2=. Whatever it is labeled it will soon be forgotten after; it is over, perhaps even dismissed as not having been that bad after all the alarmists. As outbreaks become more frequent it is possible that people will experience outbreak fatigue and stop taking precautions. 200219-1. MORE: The Covid-19 Downplayers and Doomsayers.

-A‡. Conservative States Seek Billions to Brace for Disaster. Just Don’t Call It Climate Change. Must Know Vocab for Wuhan Coronavirus: From Droplets to Zoonotic.

-B. Quote: During the last day or two I have taken all the work of naming things off his hands, and this has been a great relief to him, for he has no gift in that line, and is evidently very grateful. He can't think of a rational name to save him, but I do not let him see that I am aware of his defect. Whenever a new creature comes along I name it before he has time to expose himself by an awkward silence. In this way I have saved him many embarrassments. I have no defect like this. The minute I set eyes on an animal I know what it is. I don't have to reflect a moment; the right name comes out instantly, just as if it were an inspiration, as no doubt it is, for I am sure it wasn't in me half a minute before. I seem to know just by the shape of the creature and the way it acts what animal it is. – Eve's Diary, Mark Twain

-C. Quote: The naming goes recklessly on, in spite of anything I can do. – Extracts from Adam's Diary, Mark Twain

-D. POST COLLECTIO: The active agent was officially named SAR-COV-2, and the pandemic called Coronavirus (Covid) 2019. These 2020 parademic notes quickly shortened to CV. As one would expect one ideological faction in the US continued to call it the Chinese Virus.

-2. Head Circumference. In the early months of 2016, as global media sources incited fear among pregnant women that Zika would result in babies with small heads and stunted intellectual capacity, we found ourselves puzzled. A scientific study in the Maya/Mam area of Guatemala reported exceptionally high rates of microcephaly. Because of news coming out of Brazil and elsewhere detailing how a mosquito borne flavirus could pass through placental and blood brain barriers to impair fetal cranial development, Zika was an obvious concern. And yet this mountainous terrain, at upwards of 9000 feet above sea level, was blessed by an absence of mosquitos.

-A. A cluster of communities where Zika the story was shaping health care infrastructures even as Zika the virus was all but absent. The resurgence of head circumference as an object of a global health interest, the concern for Zika legitimizes the problematic use of anthropometry well beyond the scope of the disease, cautionary message about how scientific racism still shapes conversations about head size and intelligence.

-B. Often buried in the story of Zika’s pandemic emergency of microcephaly is a story of the global rise in child growth standards to assess malnutrition. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, mandate the eradication of the slow forces of poverty and hunger. Global health professionals tend to assess endemic hunger in technical terms, as the condition of being two standard deviations below average size, a condition also called stunting. When the Zika outbreak was announced, global health workers were already primed to be thinking about the size of babies’ heads.

-C. Head circumference has a long history in Guatemala. It is well documented that 18^th and 19^th century race(ist) theorists used the head size and shape sciences of phrenology and physiognomy to justify slavery and overt imperialist domination of Latin America’s Indigenous people.

-D. A truth of science is that measurements do not simply report but shape the worlds they measure. The futures of Indigenous children are foreclosed by a systematic defunding of schools that forces students into classrooms without teachers or supplies even as they are also told that this is the quintessential space for learning and that their own knowledge and forms of education are backward and wrong. A related story is how US border politics draw both parents and children into indentured servitude and deeply corrupt visa systems and bail bonds, leaving families suffocating under crushing debt that furthers the cycle of migration. These stories have everything to do with the traumatic violence of longstanding discrimination and dispossession, that was historically bolstered – not prevented – by the science of measuring heads.

-3. Experiencing Police Brutality Increases Mistrust in Medical Institutions, Impacts Health. When people have a negative encounter with the police, such as the police cursing at them or shoving them, that they are less likely to think medical institutions have their best interests. Among racial minorities have higher levels of medical mistrust that “whites”. The level of was higher among those who had no negative police encounters, those who had negative but what they perceived as necessary police encounters, and those who had negative and what they viewed as unnecessary police encounters. Whether the respondents thought the police were justified in their negative actions towards them, still increased the chances of mistrust toward medical institutions compared to not having any negative encounter with the police. If a respondent thought police actions were unfair, medical mistrust increased significantly. PDWN has speculated that antivax, antiGMO, antiscience may be proxies for what is actually mistrusted. This may support that opinion. This may be like the anxiety of nuclear war was expressed as UFOs =2=, or hate directed at groups during the Plague.

-200112-2¶>1. <Cont 200126>1, -1↑, 200209-1. [Map]. So far nothing unique about this parademic, Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, but it is happening far faster than previously. It’s however unlikely that the general public and media are familiar with the behavioral patterns, making this seem unpredictable chaos. Uncertainty tends to lead to behaviors that don’t help and may exacerbate the situation. The Lessons of Flu Blogging. As outsiders, we’re not obliged to be politically tactful; we can blast this or that government or health agency or NGO without fear of reprisal (not exactly true). I suspect the professionals, sworn to silence, tolerate us as conveniently annoying to their political masters.

-A. As New Coronavirus Spread, China’s Old Habits Delayed Fight. Early Missteps and State Secrecy in China Probably Allowed the Coronavirus to Spread Farther and Faster. Coronavirus Reaches 6,000 Cases. WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak a Global Health Emergency =2= =3= =4=, WHO Weighs Science and Politics in Global Virus Emergency Decision. China Will Contain ‘Demon’ Outbreak, Xi Jinping Says as Death Toll Mounts, historically when a politician makes claims about control and containment of infectious disease outbreaks, they are wrong. “No Reason for Alarm” Is a Foolishly Over Reassuring Message about the Novel Coronavirus Spreading from Wuhan, China. Chinese Government Grapples With Rising Public Fury As Coronavirus Continues To Spread. Thousands Left Wuhan for Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore or Tokyo Before Lockdown. We'll Admit Them If They're Dying: Virus Outbreak Pushes China's Stretched Health Care Workers to Breaking Point, Premier Li Keqiang Orders Wuhan Hospitals to Admit Patients as City Struggles to Cope. Coronavirus Infections Could Be 30 Times Higher than Official Total, Researchers Warn. China Coronavirus: Hong Kong Medical Experts Call for ‘Draconian’ Measures in City as Research Estimates There Are Already 44,000 Cases in Wuhan, far higher than official figures.

MORE: Covid-19 Response Delay Could Have Seen 100,000 Cases, China Expert Says as Mainland Reports 433 New Infections. Coronavirus Tally in Epicentre Wuhan May Be Just the Tip of the Iceberg.

-B. China Readies Cushion for Virus Shock When Markets Reopen. Coronavirus Rumors Hurting Chinatown Businesses in Houston. China Virus Causes Scare for India's Smartphone Makers. Many Global Firms, Excluded from Epidemic Insurance, Face Heavy Coronavirus Costs. Wilbur Ross Says Coronavirus Could Bring Jobs Back to the U.S. from China =2=. China Coronavirus: Fears of Economic Contagion Grow as Cities Turn into Ghost Towns. Bad Timing: New Virus Poses Threat to Fragile World Economy. World Braces for Economic Impact of Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak. Stocks Drop Again after Virus Declared Global Emergency, Dow Tumbles 600 Points as Coronavirus Fears Rock Stocks, Dow Tumbles More than 450 Points as the Coronavirus Outbreak Worsens. Coronavirus Has Hit the Stock Market. Here’s What History Says Comes Next. Coronavirus Is Driving Sales of Face Masks, a Game Called Plague, and an ‘I Survived Coronavirus 2020’ T Shirt. One interesting paradox is that the same politics that are willing to be harmful to health and environment for business and economic reasons, are willing to risk business and economies with actions to control and contain the pandemic. The measures themselves are in the main to late, and probably will not help.

-C. Paranoia and Frustration as China Places Itself under House Arrest, Outcasts in Their Own Country, the People of Wuhan Are the Unwanted Faces of China's Coronavirus Outbreak. China Facing Global Isolation as Virus Toll Rises. The Shunned: People from Virus Hit City Tracked, Quarantined. Coronavirus Wuhan Diary: Living Alone in a City Gone Quiet 201109-CV17. Desperate Villagers in China Arm Themselves with Spears and Dig up Roads to Prevent the Sick from Escaping from Quarantine. Hong Kong Nurses Call in Sick in Protest at Government Refusal to Close Borders. The Thinking Behind China's Quarantines ... and (Illegal) Village Blockades, also called Cordon Sanitaire. Australia to Quarantine Evacuees from China on Remote Island =2=. As China's Coronavirus Cases Rise, U.S. Agencies Map Out Domestic Containment Plans. Will the Largest Quarantine in History Just Make Things Worse^$. The Wuhan Coronavirus: Is China's Quarantine Ethical^$.

-D. TSA Tells Airlines to Ask Passengers If They've Been to China 201225-CV16, the time when that may have slowed the spread is well past. Passenger with Nose 'Running like Niagara Falls' Questions Canada's Airport Coronavirus Screening. Airline Removes Gas Mask Wearing Passenger after He Panics Travelers. Fighting Coronavirus with Travel Bans Is a Mistake, Countries Close Borders as Coronavirus Spreads, WHO Says Countries Should Keep Borders Open, Trade & People Moving Despite Coronavirus. Coronavirus: How Quarantine Has Fought Disease Through the Ages. I'm in an Apocalypse: American Student Trapped in Coronavirus Hit Chinese City, Foreigners Staying in Virus Hit Wuhan Now Wonder What’s Next; like I’m Trapped: Africans in China Lockdown See No Escape, 201224-CV05, not that different from being ostracized during Ebola. What Does Being in Quarantine Mean. Inside the California Military Base a Coronavirus Evacuee Tried to Flee, CDC Puts Americans Who Left Wuhan into 'Unprecedented' 14 Day Quarantine, U.S. Evacuees ‘Relieved’ about Quarantine on Military Base, No Illness Seen in Evacuated U.S. Passengers from Wuhan, CDC Says, US Evacuation Flight from China's Coronavirus Zone Rerouted to March Air Reserve Base, American Evacuees from Wuhan to Be Voluntarily Quarantined. Japanese Officials Say 4 Evacuees on Flight from Chinese City of Wuhan Have Cough and Fever and Were Taken to Hospital 201223-CV18. One difference with the Ebolaphobia quarantines was that they were frequently misnamed as isolation and sometimes were medical isolation. Isolation is when a person is sick and/or shedding the disease. Ebola only can be transmitted with symptoms appear, while Coronavirus can be spread before symptoms. Technically suspected Coronavirus should be isolated, not quarantined.

-E. Climate Change and Roads have been associated with disease spread before. The Next Coronavirus Nightmare Is Closer Than You Think. Even as officials around the world are scrambling to control a new and increasingly deadly Coronavirus outbreak, public health and infectious disease experts are sounding the alarm about climate change making the risk of other novel afflictions much more explosive. Welcome to the Belt and Road Pandemic, there’s one difference between the Wuhan virus and previous outbreaks in the region: China is now impossible to quarantine. By making the Belt and Road Initiative endeavor – a multitrillion dollar program to expand Chinese trade and infrastructure around the world – the centerpiece of his foreign and economic policy, Xi has made it possible for a local disease to become a global menace. Malaysian Rail Project Stops Chinese Workers Returning from Wuhan.

-F. Mothers Brawl in Person over Facebook Argument about Coronavirus. Despite Coronavirus Fears, Flu Numbers Still Worse. Wuhan Coronavirus: Promotion of Traditional Remedy Sparks Panic Buying. Was This ‘Health Bulletin’ an Accurate Coronavirus Warning. Did Health Experts Predict New Coronavirus Could Kill 65 Million People. Are People Collapsing in the Street from Coronavirus. New Coronavirus Wasn’t Predicted in Simulation. As Coronavirus Spreads, So Do Misinformation and Xenophobia. U.S. Officials Praise Chinese Transparency on Virus – up to a Point. China Police Drop Case of SARS Rumour Mongering at Start of New Crisis, Coronavirus ‘Rumour’ Crackdown by Wuhan Police Slammed by China’s Top Court. No, Corona Beer Is Not Linked to China’s Coronavirus Outbreak, MORE: ‘Corona Beer Virus’ and ‘Beer Coronavirus’ Searches Increase as Fears of Outbreak Spread =2=, MORE: No, Corona's Beer Sales Did Not Suffer from the Coronavirus. The Latest Antivaccine Conspiracy Theory: The 2019-nCoV Wuhan Outbreak Is Due to a Failed Coronavirus Vaccine, Blaming the Flu Vaccine for the Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak: the Latest Antivaccine Misinformation. Online Claims That Chinese Scientists Stole Coronavirus from Winnipeg Lab Have 'No Factual Basis' =2=. QAnon-ers’ Magic Cure for Coronavirus: Just Drink Bleach, this also appeared as medical scams for Ebola, Cancer and Autism, 210103-CV04. Facebook to Remove Misinformation about Coronavirus, How Facebook, Google and Twitter Are Trying to Stop Misinformation about Coronavirus^$ =2= =3= =4=, =5=, =6= being ironical as both sources have published medical conspiracy theory as fact; The Fact Checker’s Dilemma: Humans Are Hardwired to Dismiss Facts That Don’t Fit Their Worldview, MORE: Conspiracy Theorists and Religious People Are More Likely to Commit a ‘Conjunction Fallacy’ in Contexts Related to Their Worldviews. How to Misinform Yourself About the Coronavirus^$ =2=. China’s Coronavirus Outbreak Is Unfolding in a New Age of Information – and Surveillance. China's Censorship Helps Spread the Virus, 201219-CV03. Did China Downplay the Coronavirus Outbreak Early On. Here's a Running List of Disinformation Spreading about the Coronavirus.