Introduction: Covid (CV) Parademic Daily Notes (PDN) and Parademic Data Weekly Notes (PDWN) for 2020-2021.
A couple of weeks after New Year’s Day 2022
-1. Theoretically Introductions to research are easy to write. Usually written after the bulk of the main piece is completed, the author simply states why the research was done, what is covered, conclusions drawn, and acknowledgments of related works and those who assisted.
-A. As the curator of CV Parademic Daily Notes (PDN) I stopped systematic collection the first week of 2020, though I did loosely track the progress of some media threads. This gave me a year to reflect, but even with that time creating an Introduction is not easy for the descriptions and analyzing that make up the Parademic Listibase (database of articles, listicle) about CV. I am not even certain when the story of CV begins. It is not a linear narrative, with a clear beginning, rising action, denouements and middle. CV as a narrative is a constantly evolving collection of multivocalic narratives that so far has no climax or end.
-B. There are precursors and antecedents for all that has happened in the social sphere during CV. These were in progress long before the CV parademic – people’s behavior alongside the pandemic. There is nothing new/unique that has happened during CV that is not a repetition of established trends and patterns of slow global catastrophes, albeit the trends were covert, but with their accelerating waves are finally becoming noticeable in the forms of pandemics, rising seas, droughts, floods, biodiversity loss, cryosphere loss, megafires and more.
-2. Parademic behavior before and during CV intensified and gave longevity to the pandemic. However, well ahead of CV there were already deleterious parademic behaviors with the global combination of nationalist/populist antivaxxers and sovereign citizen movements*D, with their disinformation and conspiracy narratives (i.e. lies upon lies). Some of these gained (or never lost) control of local and national media, governments, institutions, infrastructure and organizations. With this power to manipulate for short term gain, leadership worldwide became corrupt to varying degrees and ways. Not having developed skills for dealing with existential fact, leadership has proved to be inept at containment and control of the low intensity pandemic of CV. In most cases those with responsibility for making the most beneficial decisions are more interested in staying in power and exploiting events to suit their agendas.
-A. During the past decades these activities resulted in decreasing trust and funding to be prepared for medical and public health surges, despite evidence of increasing frequency and lethality of biosphere calamities (biocalamities). This saving of money in turn made economies vulnerable to biocalamities. In the long term lives and economic losses would have been far less than the costs of being prepared before, than waiting to respond after outbreaks or mortality and morbidity.
-B. Concurrently there are preexisting and continuing trends that foster and aggravate CV: Willful and imposed ignorance, intentional hiding and misrepresentation of data, resistence to scientific medicine and ecology. These trends were magnified by poor journalism, an effective infodemic, and the inability of most scientists to communicate to the general public. These synthesized into a cycle of general regression toward fear, uncertainty, distrust, magical and conspiracy thinking, weakened critical thinking, that were all concurrent with CV emerging, becoming a syndemic of social and biological ills.
-C. The question of when CV began is more complex and complicated than the official announcement of the novel SARS-Cov-2 in China sometime in December 2019. It is likely that CV had already spread globally before being reported, and not until March 2020 was it weakly acknowledged as a global biothreat. There are still segments of global anthromes where CV is claimed to not be a serious infection, and by some not real. If the beginning of CV is vague, then imagine how much more chaotic understanding the pandemic and parademic of CV is.
-*D. A list of listibase items related to the search term sovereign: January 6, 2021 US Capital attack, 201221-CV23A, 201011-CV23 -A-C, 200825-CV33, 200604-CV06 -CV33, 200512-CV16, 200417-CV24 -A, 200416-CV26A, 200329-2, <CONT 200308-200112-2¶>6. 191027-1B, Bolsonaro Says Criticism over Amazon Interferes with Brazil's Sovereignty, Malheur Occupation in Oregon: Whose Land Is it Really, Oregon Siege: The US Militia Movement Is Resurgent – and Evolving, 190602-Dezinformatsiya-8. 171022-1A, ADDED 170903-170827-8 et al, 'Sovereignty' That Risks Global Health (2008), Trump Quits the Paris Climate Accord, Denouncing it as a Violation of U.S. Sovereignty. 161204-9.1, Indigenous Knowledge and Health Sovereignty, 160522-1. 2015 Militia Occupies Federal Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, Vows to Stay “For Years”, Of Ranchers and Rancor: The Roots of the Armed Occupation in Oregon, Sovereign Citizens Say They're above the Law, DHS Intelligence Assessment Highlights Threat Posed by Sovereign Citizen Groups. See 220105 Toxic Exposure & Covid Syndemic-5 -A, Social Determinants of Health, for more search strings.
-3. The CV Pandemic/Parademic is a continuing convergence of multiple trends of anthropogenic and biosphere/environmental damage (not all yet identified). The synergy of these trends are often caused and exacerbated by a slew of social ills, contagions and determinants of health (again, not all have been identified). These combonded – combined and bonded, well beyond mere compounding – to become a perfect syndemic. At this time it is not known what the ultimate outcome (prognosis) will be, or if CV will become dormant/end, but it’s likely already endemic and another permanent biothreat.
-4. As the curator of Parademic all I can offer are some suggestions of how to use the parademic website as an information source. In fact, this Introduction is a simplified version to reading parademic:
-A. Unless one if very skilled and practiced, as well as well informed on the human factors of parademic *B, do not read this chronologically from present to past/past to present. The crux of the parademic methodology is to find patterns, linking information that is usually separated by large ideological, geographical, and temporal separations, though sometimes these do form temporary clusters. Skimming the listibase for items of interest, and use of search strings (terms) is recommended, until one gains a sense of the whole. There are some links provided within the listibase 4D↑, but by no means is every interconnection provided.
-*B. To give emphasis. If you think you are an expert, have years of experience, understand the interdisciplinary and interacting overlaps of the microsphere (which makes up all other spheres) with the socialspheres, you are 99.9% likely to be wrong with your self assessment. [Meme]. Parademic is not about fact. Parademic is about what people believe (or profess) to be true and act in accordance with. Parademic’s interest is in what social context this information and behavior is considered rational, as reported by media. Nothing in the listbase should be taken as gospel, especially because, like gospel, there are diametrically contradictory items and interpretations.
-C. One can gain deep insights into people and their societies by what they do in disasters. Biocalamities are disasters that emerge slowly, come in waves, and are barely noticed until there is a spike in death and chronic conditions. The parademic term for this is bradyoccult – slow and hidden until the growth reaches acceleration/deceleration (extinction). The process of biocalamity takes longer than human lifetimes, until it happens relatively suddenly in just a few months/years (that is shorter than a human generation). Biocalamities begin well below human perception threshold, as well as the ability of humans to adapt cognitively/socially. This chaotic adaptation (or failure to do so) is parademic.
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