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CV1. Safety, Security: Cities, Biosecure, CV4. Politics: Delay, Paranoia CV5. Economics: Fake Economy, Leveraged Beyond Safety, Low Flying Jet, CV6. Language: Theory, Speculation, Competing Hypotheses. CV7. Emergence: WWII, Bread, Ingredient Shortage, CV9. Arts: Inspiration, Boredom, CV13. Outliers: Statistical, Global, Contextual, Collective, Manipulated Anomalous, Interesting, Black Swan, Fascinating, Outrage, Sharpen, CV16. Social Change: Permanent, Expected, CV17. Contradictions: San Francisco, Flattened Curve, Covert Parties, CV18. Narrative: Reinfection, Ebola Fear Mongering, CV20. Communication: Misleading Journalism, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Locusts, Famine, CV22. Longue Duree: History of Pandemic Change of Society, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Syria, Attacking Hospitals, Middle East Cooperation, CV24. Norms: Time, CV25. Transportation: Speed, CV27. Learning: Academic Regression, CV28. Logistics: Raw Toilet Paper.
CV1. Safety, Security: How to Make a City Livable During Lockdown. From wider sidewalks to better balconies 200409-CV24: Tips from a long time urbanist. 200410-CV14. The Pandemic Could Be an Opportunity to Remake Cities. 200507-CV32.
CV4. Politics: Delay and paranoia. The Single Most Damning Sentence in the New York Times Coronavirus Exposé. Unfolding in the wake of his impeachment by the House and in the midst of his Senate trial, Mr. Trump's response was colored by his suspicion of and disdain for what he viewed as the Deep State – the very people in his government whose expertise and long experience might have guided him more quickly toward steps that would slow the virus, and likely save lives. =2= =A= =B= CV18↓ =C= 200412-2, =3= =4= =5= =6=. [Meme =2=, Tweet].
CV5. Economics: 3 Theories for Why the Stock Market Soared along with Unemployment News. A raging class war, a preview of more good news, or a simple mistake. The PDN’s curator’ contention for some time has been that the metrics for measuring an economy have been incorrect in that they don’t measure national economic health. Part of the current CV problems stem from a strong economy that was based on: labor being unable to find better jobs; deregulation of the controls to prevent damage to health and environment; and defunding economic buffers and disaster capacity. This is operating an economy without any insurance and safeguards, focusing on immediate short term profit not long term sustainability. These measures put more money into the Strong Economy metrics and were true until there was a disaster. For an ∩ analogy it is safe to fly a jet a few inches above the ground until: something is sucked into the engine, there is a down draft, or the jet hits something that was one inch higher than it was flying. [Photo =2= =3=], CV13↓.
CV6. Language: CV5↑ demonstrates again that science journalism tends to use popular meaning of words, not the technical meaning, and oversimplify complex topics that may have years of background. The headline uses Theory CV13↓, when in fact it is speculation (albeit likely informed and credible), and competing hypotheses. 200728-CV03.
CV7. Emergence: British Bakers Reintroduce World War II Bread in Coronavirus Fight. Britain's National Loaf – a nutrient dense whole wheat bread first produced in 1942 – has been reemerging in recent weeks. Today, as was the case back then, a scarcity of ingredients and a concern for public health are challenging the culinary status quo. After panic buyers cleared supermarket shelves of flour, smaller scale producers have seen a surge in sales.
CV9. Arts: When I'm Bored and Find a Dead Fly. Bored at Work. Fun with Dead Flies 06. Shelter in place, or not sheltering in place, is driving people into insanity, or creativity. Hard to tell the difference. [Meme]. Russians Decorate Isolation by Recreating Artworks.
CV13. Outliers: From a parademic perspective there are three form of outliers: Statistical that skew the data and the interpretation of data (Global, Contextual, Collective); Manipulated to reach conclusion(s) that are not supported by the data; Anomalous data sets that is rare, a result on improbably circumstances (such as disaster that could not possible occur), or misinterpreted as being part of the data, Interesting for data that is predictable but improbable (black swan), 210101-CV31. Fascinating, which is not predictable by previous theory CV6↑, indicating a developing trend, or improvement to the theory, and; Fascinating data tends to be used by popular media CV18↓ as it attracts attention by the very fact that it is anomalous, causes outrage, supports an editorial slant or conspiracy theory =2= =3=, and sharpens an item from the cacophony of competing news. MORE: ‘Black Swan’ Author: Global Coronavirus Response a Case Study of Government Incompetence and Denial. 210101-CV31.
CV16. Unintended Consequences/ Social Change: No One Can Opt out of this Pandemic. And That Will Change Us Forever. Why life during Coronavirus will have a permanent effect on people’s respect (or disrespect) for reality. Unsure if CV will have permanent social change, but there is an expectation that this will change normal, and expectations may be what causes social change CV22↓.
-A. POST COLLECTION: It appears that it is not CV per se is resulting in changes, but system failures of politics, economics, logistics, health care and more are resulting in changes, in part through attrition through selective pressures.
CV17. Contradictions: Police Shut down SF Nightclub Operating During Coronavirus Crisis. The City That Has Flattened the Coronavirus Curve. San Francisco’s early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made The City a national model in fighting the pandemic.
CV18. Narrative: Coronavirus Reinfection Fears Grow as Cured Patients Test Positive with Possibly Reactivated Virus. WHO Investigating Reports of Coronavirus Patients Testing Positive Again. There are several explanations for this: no immunity gained from infection, damage to immune system, that the patient was still infectious and not fully recovered. This has implications for vaccine, treatment and having to quarantine after the illness. Unlikely to become the basis of fear mongering CV4↑ as those who exploited CV11 an unfortunate but legitimate speculation if Ebola mutated and was airborne =2=, which was reported poorly in general media CV13↑, are now the government 200812-CV21.2A. Even if not fear mongered this may become a narrative that drives panic behaviors. Three Coronavirus Pandemic Questions That Science Hasn’t Answered with Certainty.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: As seen time and time again in parademics, credible sounding interpretations, media missteps CV20↓, motivated reasoning, logical fallacies, scientific illiteracy, are resulting in CV remaining pandemic in 2022.
CV20. Communication: What Went Wrong with the Media’s Coronavirus Coverage. Much of the mainstream media amplified this slow and muddled reaction to the rapidly spreading virus. Since alarming reports about Covid-19 began to emerge from China in January, the media often provided information to Americans that later proved to be wrong, or at least inadequate. CV3 CV18 -A↑.
CV21. Syndemic and Concurrent Disasters: Locusts and Coronavirus: A Biblical Nightmare Strikes the Horn of Africa. What if Covid-19 had shown up in the United States last year, just as Hurricane Dorian forced people out of their homes and into shelters. What would it feel like to be told to shelter in place as wildfires approach your doorstep. It’s hard to imagine handling more than one disaster of this magnitude – but before the novel Coronavirus struck the horn of Africa, countries already had a plague on their hands. 200402-CV21. CV26↓. 200424-CV4A*. 201224-CV05.
-A. MORE: New Generation of Locusts in East Africa Extremely Alarming. Ugandan president – Prayer is already working. The locusts came but they ate nothing. Second Wave of Locusts Causing Havoc in East Africa.
CV22. Longue Duree: How Pandemics Change Society Video, Coronavirus isn't the first pandemic to change society. 200326-CV12. CV16↑.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: Actually, no pathogen has changed any society. Pathogens have been one of many contributing social and biological (health and environment) that cause social changes to the point where a culture is obliterated, but that society was usually already unstable – and currently every society on Earth is unstable. It is the accumulating consequences that results in changes. These changes are part of the purview of parademic.
CV23. Polemic and Myphysis: Coronavirus Disaster in the Making in War Torn Syria, the government has shut borders and forbidden movement between provinces. Battles Rage in Syria Despite Coronavirus Cease Fires. Syria’s Civil War Will Make Fighting Coronavirus Particularly Difficult. Destroying Hospitals to Win the War.
-A. Coronavirus in the Middle East: A Rare Opportunity for Diplomacy.
CV24. Norms: What Day Is it Today. The sun coming up in the east and setting in the west is real. Thursday is not. To live inside is to lose distinction. There is a numbing effect that occurs when each day is the same, when our schedules are subsumed by what feels like an endless gulf of undifferentiated time. And yet isn’t this how so many of the less privileged around the world, forced to work jobs involving menial labor, day after day after day, already live. Isn’t this why we invented the weekend. Has this quarantine simply shown to those of us with more economic privilege that our “free time” was always a mirage, which could disappear before our eyes, by giving us so much “free” time. MORE: I Felt like Rip Van Winkle: One of the 1st U.S. Doctors with Covid-19 Is Back Home.
CV25. Transportation: Whoosh. That Car That Just Soared by Might Be Heading for the Coast. With far less traffic thanks to Coronavirus induced quarantines, drivers are pushing down hard on their accelerators. Tickets, and records, are the result. 200331-CV14.
CV27. Learning: How Cornoavirus School Closures Could Cause Historic Academic Regression.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: Given the factors listed in CV18A↑ – and other causes (insufficient funding, lack of critical thinking, refusal to teach current and evolving understanding, repression of valid information, politicization of education, and teaching of myths as fact) – academic regression (or maybe staying in place while knowledge continues expand) was well underway before CV. There is also an unpreparedness for online education with training in teaching and learning, supporting infrastructure, and Luddite blaming of a technology that is still evolving.
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