Updated 211202
CV1. Safety, Security: Contact Tracing, Phishing, CV2. Humor: Current Event Topics, CV4. Politics: Mail In Vote, Wisconsin Election Cases, Election Electronic Security, CV5. Economics: Next Generation, Stimulus Inadequate, Investments, CV7. Emergence: Animal Shelters, Pets, CV7.1. Tree Shelter, CV8. Entertainment: Brief and Viral Celebrities, CV9. Arts, Creativity: Stimulating, Expression, CV12. Personal: Bias and Opinions, Predictable, Trump Lump, CV14. Uncategorized, Miscellaneous: Reproductive Decisions, CV15. Grief: NY Cemetery Race, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Homelessness, CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Response to Uncertainty, Magical, Investigative, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Loyalty, Dismissing Contrary, Astroturfing, 2nd Wave, Anecdotal, Euphemism, Reopening Experiments, CV19. Technosphere, Anthromes: Social Aspects, CV20. Communication: Accepting Uncertainty, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Vectors and Animals, CV22. Longue Duree: 1836 Typhus Outbreak, CV25. Transportation, Travel: Anti CV Habits, CV27. Learning: School is Out Impacts, CV28. Logistics: Critical Now and Normally, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Resilience Leadership.
PDN Introduction.
CV1. Safety, Security: You May Have Been Exposed to the Virus: What to Expect When a Contact Tracer Calls You. They want to know demographics, living situation, health and exposure as part of a greater effort to isolate the Coronavirus and stem its spread. This article does not anticipate that the contact tracer may have to contact the 2nd panel of [Cartoon]. Suspect that panel one is probably more like panel two than depicted. POST COLLECTIO: During previous disease outbreaks media was critical on foreign countries where people did not want to cooperate with contact tracing. Presumably there was the assumption that in the US and Europe there would not be such resistance, probably because they are not primitive.
-A. The Intersection of Cyber Crime and Coronavirus Stimulus: The Perfect Storm for Fraud. One of the popular phishing attacks right now is to send an email pretending to be a company you have an account with requesting that you renew your information via the link provided. 200422-CV16A. 200928-CV23. 201205-CV11.
CV2. Humor: [Cartoon =2= =3= =4=].
CV4. Politics: As Mail Voting Pushed, Some Fear Loss of in Person Option. Election officials across the country are eliminating polling places or scaling back opportunities for people to cast ballots in person — a move raising concerns that some voters could be disenfranchised. Study Finds Universal Vote by Mail Doesn't Provide Advantage to Either GOP or Democrats. At Least Seven People Contracted the Coronavirus During Wisconsin's Elections.
-A. Have noted that Election Security Checklists =2= =3= =4= completely ignore that there is a CV pandemic, securing mail in votes, and disinformation campaigns to influence voting.
CV5. Economics: Millennials Are Getting Screwed by the Economy. Again. Two once in a lifetime crisis have had devastating consequences for millennials. Besides being a miscount of once in a lifetime biocrisis, and overly optimistic that there will not be more, when have the younger generation not been screwed by the previous generation. The younger generation always seems to somehow become the older generation. What is hoped is that with this generation as it becomes the older generation, will not screw the younger one, i.e. their own children and grandchildren.
-A. Proposal: You Get a $2,000 Stimulus Check Every Month. Opinion: One $1,200 Stimulus Check Won’t Cut It. Give Americans $2,000 a Month Tax Free to Fire up the Economy. Unlikely to be considered seriously, and if so, would require legislation. Part of that legislation should include that if someone insists on endorsing the check when it is not legally necessary that then that person should do each and every signature by hand, not machine. 200420-CV24A.
-B. Investor Lessons from Covid-19. Not surprisingly investment advice during CV remains the same as non pandemic times. Long term strategy that don’t let short term blips up or down make substantial changes to the investment plan, but make the same adjustments normally done as part of the plan. Each period of decline likely concerned investors, but hindsight shows that those with a long term strategy based on their financial goals and risk tolerance likely benefitted from maintaining a diversified portfolio and sticking with it.
CV6. Language: Reproduction Number R0, pronounced R Naught or 0, is a technical term that still has not entered the language of the general populace. That means that the concept R0 carries is likely not well understood by the public, possibly explaining that something as simple as why ending social distancing without testing, vaccine, is not effective. Kentucky Reports Highest Coronavirus Infection Increase after a Week of Protests to Reopen State. 200418-CV12.
CV7. Emergence: The Call Has Been Answered: Animal Shelters Across the U.S. Are Emptying amid Coronavirus Pandemic =2=. People forced to wait out Coronavirus at home (the unaddressed problem) are adopting and fostering shelter dogs and cats to keep them company (an unofficial solution). The shelters are thrilled. However, solutions tend to cause problems. What happens after CV and people are not at home to care for pet. Will there be pet dumping. ADDED: [Meme]. 201228-CV26.
CV7.1. South Texas ER Doctor Self Isolates in His Kids’ Treehouse.
CV8. Entertainment: At the heart of entertainment is connection with others via focused sharing. What Happens When You Go Coronavirus Viral. Meet three people whose tweets about surviving Covid-19 briefly made them internet famous.
CV9. Arts, Creativity: Creativity in a Coronavirus World, can everyday creativity be a small silver lining during the outbreak. Art is emotional expression, overlapping with all areas, but tends to be suppressed as it does not always follow expected and accepted norms.
CV12. Personal: Opinions about HWSNBN are an admitted bias of the PDN curator. However, given that most behavior is based not on fact but opinion (oft times masquerading as fact) why hide it. Everyone is biased (no matter how objective they appear). Hiding bias to maintain the appearance of being unemotional and objective is a problem in science as there is a tendency to hide that bias from others, and more importantly one’s self Quote. PDN agrees that allowing overt bias to skew interpretation is unscientific but being covert about bias is an even greater skew of interpretation. Objective framing and language CV06 provides fewer cues that conclusions may be misinformed, that there are methodological errors, that questions remain, and that the ideofact is unexamined.
-A. The current administration behaviors are no longer merely forecastable but are highly predictable in part because of its opinions and its preference to create chaos and confusion to reach goals is consistent and therefore predictable. There is a large number of examples of Mis and Disinformation; Gaslighting; Suppression of contrary information; Fair is foul, foul is fair Orwellian language; Misdirection; Glorifying incompetence; Dunning Kruger; Logical contradictions; Magical thinking; Fear mongering; Breaking social norms and decorum, being uncivil, normalization of deviance, and acting as if above the law; Doing what is unexpected, i.e. making the worst possible choice from a rational perspective; Obfuscation; Fostering internal competition and disunity; are all effective for a time. Continued behavior include: More deregulation, justifying othering =2=, attacking allies.
-B. As people adapt deleterious behavior has to become more reckless and risky to remain effective for social control because defense against will build up. Eventually this can no longer be maintained to control society and the anti social behavior will crash, sometimes making the situation worse than the one it created. At least among the current administration there is an inability to adapt a new stratagem CV18↓, which create a vacuum that can be filled by something more difficult CV18A↓.
CV14. Uncategorized, Miscellaneous: The Coronavirus Pandemic Has People Rethinking Their Plans for Having Kids. One of her patients ran out of birth control when the Coronavirus pandemic hit and having an unplanned pregnancy. With the economic crisis CV5 that has come along with the pandemic, she and her partner are both facing furloughs from their jobs. She will follow up with the patient and her partner this week to find out their decision. Whatever happens, they are just two of the countless many around the country whose reproductive lives have been impacted by the spread of Covid-19. 200802-CV16.
CV15. Grief: Cemetery Races to Keep Up as New York Virus Deaths Mount.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: It Took a Pandemic for Cities to Finally Address Homelessness. Some cities are housing homeless people in hotels. But a long term solution is sorely needed. One of the ways to mitigate a biocrisis is to solve or lessen (mitigate) problems such as wealth gaps, medical access, poverty, shelter, water, industrial pollution, polarization, xenophobia, education, income, health insurance, social safety nets..... before a biocalamity happens. Claiming that a biocrisis is not a problem. Denial or misidentification of the problems, only delays problem solving, allowing it to fester longer and be larger when the biocrises accelerate. 200908-CV32.1.
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Novelty and Uncertainty: Social Science Contributions to a Response to Covid-19. In parademic uncertainty of outcome of events and actions tend to be a framed as resorting to magical behaviors, when no matter the level of skill and amount of power, a person is helpless to increase the probability of success. However, amongst scientists, uncertainties are talked and written about with the excitement of a detective challenge. In conditions of uncertainty and risk there is a tendency to blame and have nonconsequential decision making and reasoning. Anthropology and Risk: Insights into Uncertainty, Danger and Blame from Other Cultures.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Diversion of Effort: The CDC and WHO Have Already Said Mosquitoes Don’t Spread Coronavirus. Now USDA Will Study It, Too. An adviser for the American Mosquito Control Association says the possibility of mosquito transition of the CV is nil. One of the contrary narratives is anti science, that evidence based agencies and conclusions are usually wrong. With HHS*A not always following this narrative, and the WHO consistently opposing it, another agency that is loyal to the narrative is selected. It is not important if mosquitos are a CV vector or not, but questioning the science with manufactorversy =2= =3= =4= =5= =6=. One form of this is the CV27 astroturfing of Teach the Controversy =2= =3= [Meme] CV12↑, 200422-CV27B.
-*A. For example CDC Director Warns Second Wave of Coronavirus Might Be 'More Difficult' =2= ADDED: Why the CDC Director Wasn't Misquoted on Coronavirus – No Matter What the White House Says. 200424-CV16A. In the current euphemisms CV06 “difficult” is a way to say worse, an inconvenience to some people who deny and believe they are buffered from consequences, and fatal to everyone else. CV12↑. Flying Blind Without Proper Testing, GOP Governors Reopen Businesses in Three Southern States, Georgia Risks Second Coronavirus Wave with Sudden Reopening of Businesses are natural experiments to test if opening too soon is a reasonable gamble or not =2=. Georgia Businesses Hesitant to Embrace Kemp’s Call to Reopen. [Cartoon]. 200722-CV03.
-C. The Montana Plan for Opening Up After Covid-19 =2= =3=. We will do it in a way that will protect Montanans’ lives and the recovery of our economy. We will continue to do this the Montana way – based on the data and science on the ground here, not based on politics. I know this crisis is hurting Montanans – but I also know that if we get this wrong, it will hurt us even more.
CV19. Technosphere, Anthromes: Covid-19: Bringing the Social Back In. The impact of changes – social and medical – brought about by Covid-19 will not be known for some time. The medical side is studied, but the social context in which Covid-19 operates has been the subject of less discussion, even though the virus is as much a social as a medical phenomenon. As social scientists, we believe our various disciplines will have a crucial role to play in the months ahead in understanding the challenge posed by Covid-19.
CV20. Communication: The Constant Shifts of the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Making Journalists More Comfortable Expressing Uncertainty. At a time of almost constantly changing news, what are the obligations of journalists to make it clear that their information is provisional. That would be great if science journalism would translate this to express uncertainty about science finding. Implying that a finding is the newest and conclusive, causing mayhem with trust of science. Who knows, maybe politicians will become comfortable to stop talking in absolutes. Tolerance for uncertainty may also mean less magical and more critical thinking.
CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: One potential worry is that as animal and pest control is eroded and diverted to other public health during CV, insect vectors and potential population explosions of pests can become a problem in areas temporarily depopulated of humans. Vector Borne Diseases More than Triple in US, CDC Says. This is especially concerning as Destroyed Habitat Creates the Perfect Conditions for Coronavirus to Emerge =2=.
CV22. Longue Duree: What an 1836 Typhus Outbreak Taught the Medical World About Epidemics.
CV25. Transportation, Travel: What American Travel Looked like Before Covid-19. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.
CV27. Learning: Prolonged School Closures Could Be Very Costly for America’s Students. Experts are especially worried about younger and lower income kids. MORE: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Affect an Entire Generation of Students.
CV28. Logistics: The usual critical items change drastically in a biocrisis. A Different Type of Commodity Report by FEMA.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Leading in a Crisis: 3 Kinds of Resilience to Strive For. The current pandemic is composed of intense sprints during an enduring marathon. Leading an organization through Covid-19 means developing three types of resilience: personal, institutional and post crisis. [Cartoon].
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