Updated 211020
CV1. Safety, CV2. Humor, CV4. Politics, CV5. Economics, CV6. Language, CV7. Emergence, CV11 Exploitation, CV12 Personal, Grief, CV16. Unintended Consequences, CV19. Treatments & Vaccination (Anti), CV20. Communication & Narrative, Two Wolves.
CV1. Safety: Home Care Is Supposed to Help. In a Pandemic It May Hurt.
CV2. Humor: Photos: Using Humor and Ingenuity to Deal with Coronavirus. Laughter Helps the Brain Relax. How Humor Can Combat Coronavirus Anxiety, =3=.
CV4. Politics: Xi Jinping Urges Stronger International Cooperation and Quick Action to Fight Coronavirus Pandemic and Stave off Global Recession =2= under Comments.
CV5. Economics: New Unemployment Claims Soar to 3.3 Million, Shattering Previous Records. =2=.
CV6. Language: London Hospitals Facing 'Tsunami' of Patients =2=. Finding a word that means overwhelming but that is not too mild to communicate there is a problem yet not too scary, like apocalyptic or astronomical, that implies no solution.
CV7. Emergence: Toilet Paper Delivered by Drone in SF.
CV11. Exploitation: Putin Flies Help to Virus Stricken Italy, Exploiting EU Fumble =2= =3=, Russia Deploying Coronavirus Disinformation to Sow Panic in West, EU Document Says =2=, and is spreading disinformation worth the risk of harming yourself. 200328-CV11, 201022-CV23. | Dyson Designs Ventilator in 10 Days, Making 15,000 amid Pandemic but is this profiteering or filling a critical need.
CV12. Personal: A neighbor, who is a professor at the University of California in Berkeley, is Sheltering in Place. Worried that they might not have enough academic books I texted their housemate that I have Snowden’s Epidemics and Society. Just got back an eyes squeezed shut laughing emoticon [EMOTICON] (assume that means hilarious reaction to my joke). Awkward to have to text back that it is a real book written by a Yale professor of the History and Medicine, that I was offering to loan. 200419-CV22. POST COLLECTIO: After several months of sheltering here they returned the book, never having read it.
CV16. Unintended Consequences: When Home Isn’t Safe: What the Coronavirus Pandemic Means for Domestic Violence Survivors =2=, sheltering in place could be dangerous. 200508-CV01.
CV19. Treatments & Vaccination (Anti): California Man Arrested over Alleged Scheme to Sell Bogus Coronavirus Cure.
CV20. Communication, Narrative: The opposite of communication is isolation and choosing not to listen. There are no narrative antonyms, just conflicts between and feeding of narratives. Everything communicates, or at least is interpreted as communication and having meaning: People, Animals, No behavior, Wind in Trees, Clouds, Omens, Fox and Friends.
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