Updated 211016
CV1. Security, In the Navy, CV2. Humor, CV3. Information, Misinformation, Limiting Speech, CV4. Politics, Local, Disaster, CV5. Economics, End Virus or Save Economy, CV6. Language, Idioms, CV7. Emergence, Triage, CV8. Fiction, The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin, CV9. Arts: Comics, CV10. Spirituality, Israel, Measles, Orthodox Judaism, CV11. Exploitation, Crime, Medical Access CV12. Personal, Garage, CV13. Outliers, Gay Blood. CV14. Miscellaneous, Fauci, Bobblehead, Raising Cash, CV15. Grief, Harry Potter, Anticipatory, CV16. Unintended Consequences, Oops, CV17. Uncertainty/ Contradictions, Time Distortion, Surreal, CV18. Evolving Narrative and Social Constructs, CV19. Technophere, Meaning, CV20. Communication, Southwest Airlines, CV21. Syndemic and Concurrent Disasters, 1-2-3 KO Punch, Hurricane, CV22. Longue Duree, TB, Beards, Slavery, Smallpox, Ben Franklin, CV23. Polemic and Myphysis, Afghanistan, Taliban, Cooperation, CV24. Norms, Snitchers, CV25. Themes, CV26. Spheres, Bio, Micro, Geo, Star Stuff.
CV1. Security: U.S. Navy Does Not Rule out Punishing Captain Who Criticized Coronavirus Response. The criticism is not the problem, revealing that a nuclear powered aircraft carrier is not mission capable is a national security problem. Lawmakers Call for Probe of Aircraft Carrier Captain's Firing | Sailors Cheer Ousted Commander | Comfort Hospital Ship Changes Screening Process. Listicle. MORE: Captain Crozier Tests Positive.
CV2. Humor: [Cartoon =2= =3= 200332-CV17 =4= =A= there were several waves of Liberty during Ebola =5= =6= =7= =8= another repeating icon =9= =10= =11= =12= Meme =2= Chart noticed that Level 5 was not included].
-A. POST COLLECTIO: I had previously attempted to collect on humor during the 2014 West African Ebola Pandemic – the parademic notes from the time are not available on the parademic website, but I still have them. What I learned about humor during the Ebola parademic in the US applies to CV in the US, but for Africa that project failed as I felt I did not grasp African humor. A different study article recently became available. Socio Semiotics of Humour in Ebola Awareness Discourse on Facebook. Humour has often functioned as a tool for the relief of depression, anxiety and stress. People have continually turned to humour, in serious life threatening situations in order to find relief. Facebook users eagerly expressed their thoughts and opinions on the Ebola epidemic that raged across some parts of West Africa in 2014 through humorous graphics, texts and memes posted online. An awareness of the peculiar patterns and use of such humour creating strategies is crucial to the understanding and interpretation of socio-semiotic realities of such online interactions. This study identifies and analyses specific semiotic patterns in Ebola related graphic posts in Nigerian online social discourse, particularly on Facebook, and argues, that such posts are not merely a bunch of humour. Instead, they are informal awareness campaigns that are even more apt than explicit verbal or written messages. The study applies Kress and Leeuween’s approach to multimodal discourse analysis CV30.
CV3. Information: Citing Virus Misinformation, South Africa Tests Speech Limits. Suppressing false Covid-19 information may have benefits, but as South Africa shows, combating fake news isn’t simple. [Cartoon]. 201224-CV05.
CV4. Politics: A favorite sillylogism of mine is: All Politics Are Local*A =2= & All Disasters Are Local*A =2= THEREFORE All Politics Are Disasters =2= =3= =4= & All Disasters Are Political *B=2= =3= =4=. Though flawed factually there is truth to this.
-*A. One semantic problem is the meaning of the word local =2= =3=. In the context of a global pandemic what is local: Earth, One Health, Selfish centered and family (or cronies), Immediate Area, a level of government, (Nation) first, Ideological, People like me, Occupation, Community, Etc. Framing at the incorrect local level and with an inappropriate definition for the situation will exacerbate the disasters.
-*B. MORE: All Plagues Are Political. #Book New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives [Cover]. “Anagnorisis” CV06 is Greek for “learning upward” – the sudden shock when we finally see and understand what’s really going on. I had such shocks on almost every page of this very important new book. This is a long review because the book raises very many issues rarely mentioned in medical or political history. It calls into question not only our global health system, but the economic and political systems that pretend to support it. CV05 CV22.
CV5. Economics: Most Believe Stopping Virus Is Larger Priority than Saving Economy. [Cartoon]. CV7↓.
CV6. Language: Sometimes using idioms to emphasize a point is useful, sometimes not. Shoot Them Dead - Philippine Leader Says Won't Tolerate Lockdown Violators.
CV7. Emergence: Experts Race to Set Rules for Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies. There was theoretical knowledge about triage and already established guidelines, but it is different when actually having to make the decision, especially when there is a shortage of critical medical resources. Experts in triage and medical are not the only ones to make triage rules. Government, economic CV5↑, spiritual, known harmful consequences, norms about who has priority for life, political power bases . 200703-CV15.2.
CV8. Fiction: N.K. Jemisin’s New Book Begins with a Virus in New York. Somehow, It’s a Joyous Read.
CV9. Arts: The Coronavirus Outbreak Has Plunged the Comics World into Existential Chaos.
CV10. Spirituality: After Ignoring Warnings, Israeli Ultra Orthodox Hit by Virus. The same self inflicted harm happened to this group during the recent vaccine preventable global Measles outbreaks 201219-CV21. That recent pattern may be the reason for Israel Seals off Ultra Orthodox Town Hit Hard by Coronavirus. 200927-CV16.
CV11. Exploitation: The Coronavirus Pandemic Is an Opportunity for Organized Crime in Asia, and globally if the line between crime and government (corruption) has not already blurred it will soon. The unequal medical access favoring financial and social elites, condoned and expedited by government =2=, is already known.
CV12. Personal: My wife has decided that Shelter in Place does not mean that I can’t clean the garage.
CV13. Outliers: FDA Loosens Restrictions on Gay Men Donating Blood amid Pandemic =2=CV02. The outlier is not homosexuals, but the zombie policy that has not been necessary for years.
CV14. Miscellaneous: Milwaukee Museum to Sell Dr. Fauci Bobbleheads to Raise Money for Hospitals =2=. 200332-CV1.
CV15. Grief: “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it”. That Covid-19 Feeling. It’s Called ‘Anticipatory Grief =2= =3= =4=. 200504-CV16.
CV16. Unintended Consequences: [Meme].
CV17. Uncertainty/ Contradictions: Epidemic Times. Epidemics like Covid-19 fundamentally change the order of time. The present moves faster, the past seems further removed, and the future appears completely unpredictable. Everyday homogenous time splits up into different and often contradictory temporal logics. The time of the virus, the time of capitalism, and the time of political decisions compete, challenge, and clash with each other, impacting human lives in different ways.
CV19. TechnoSphere: Replacing Technology because it has too much associated prior meaning. Technosphere includes culture, anthromes, infrastructure, worldview, anthropogenic, domesticated life forms, and more. The anthroposphere is embedded in the bio micro and geospheres CV26↓. Even when these are completely manmade (anthromes) the anthroposphere cannot exist and still be defined as human.
-A. Infosphere: A definite part of the manmade environment and an essential need for life support, but the infosphere overlaps with the biosphere (macro and micro), and likely the geo ones. The infosphere may be a metasphere.
CV20. Communication: Southwest’s Covid-19 Crisis Communications and What You Need to Be Doing. Anticipating fears while demonstrating compassion, confidence, and competence is key for Coronavirus concerns. [Meme =A= =2= =A= from 2009H1N1, Cartoon].
CV21. Syndemic and Concurrent Disasters: Responding to Coronavirus & a Second Major Incident. This is probably why there is an increase in cyber attacks. With economic downturn, political conflict, a pandemic, a cyber attack might make for a knockout [Photo] for an already reeling system, 200928-CV23. Hurricanes don’t help either.
CV22. Longue Duree: The Way the U.S. Beat TB Could Be a Boon in Battling Coronavirus. A Brief History of Beards and Pandemics. The Slave Who Helped Boston Battle Smallpox, Library Treasures: Benjamin Franklin, Smallpox Pamphleteer.
CV23. Polemic: With Taliban Help, Afghanistan Girds for a Virus. As thousands of Afghan migrants return from Iran, the nation has found an unexpected ally against Covid-19. This may be exploitation of the situation for personal benefit, but also cooperation (albeit likely temporary for the period of a common goal). 200803-CV03. 201202-CV21.
CV24. Norms: Residents Snitch on Businesses, Neighbors amid Shutdowns. ADDED: Snitch vs. Rat.
CV25. Themes: These are not stated categories but are the underlying topics. Remote (Digital) Ethnography. Blurring, Blending, Overlap, Combounding (combine + compound), Lumping. Separating, Dividing, Splitting. Redefining. Trumpism (Gubergenic, not just poor government in the US). Disinformation. Competition - Cooperation. Heuristics. Reality (if there really is such a thing). Psychology (Social). Panic & Fear 201022-CV20. Methodology, Collection, Analysis, Synthesis. Information Sharing and Acceptance. Human Factors and Dimensions. Infectious Disease. Survival. Extinction. Biodiversity. Self Inflicted Damage. Anti Science (Vaxx). Perception. Interpretation. Anthropology the inter disciplinary fields of Human Biology (Physical), Infrastructure (Archaeology), Ethnography, Folklore and Linguistics. Cassandra Effect. Bradyoccult. Social Science of Disaster. Military Support. Social Change and Collapse. Environmental Change and Collapse. This category of themes may not be used often, unless the topic does not fit in elsewhere.
CV26. Spheres: Biosphere(s). The open ecological systems, not an encapsulated ecological habitat (ecospheres). There are bubbles of life on and off earth that are isolated from the global biosphere and would likely die if exposed to the whole, or may be toxic to the whole. Microsphere =2= is the microscopic part living and particulate part of the biosphere that the macro life forms are made up of and completely immersed in. Geospheres (atmos, lithic, hydro, thermal, cryo, electromagnetic). Extraterrestrial organic molecules have been identified that are not associated with geospheres, but unknown if there is anything that would be defined as life, or if these are the elements that life is based on. CV19↑.
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