Updated 211204
CV1. Safety, Security: Mask Enforcement, CV2. Humor: Earth Day, CV3. Information: Nobel Stultus, CV5. Economics: Construction Jobs, Stimulus Checks, CV8. Entertainment: Super Puzzle, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Friendships, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Virtual Memorials, Stimulus Scams and Mistakes, CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Paying the Help, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Blackwhite Hydroxychloroquine, CV19. Technosphere, Anthromes: Zoom Funerals, Virtual Graduation, CV20. Communication: Reopen Protestors, CV22. Longue Duree: Quarantine Islands, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Iran, N Korea, Refugees, CV24. Norms: Octoberfest, Mass Gatherings, Sources, Silos, Media Echos, CV25. Transportation, Travel: Non Essential Travel, CV26. Environment, One Health: Electric Trucks, Factory Farms, Wet Markets, 50th Anniversary, CV27. Learning: Essential Services, Charter Schools, Who is Critical, Need to Learn, CV28. Logistics: Testing, Zoos, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Celebrities, Wealth Gaps, Fired at Pleasure, CV30. Methodology: Categories
PDN Introduction, Glossary
CV1. Safety, Security: Senators Are Demanding a Solution to Police Stopping Black Men for Wearing – and Not Wearing – Masks CV24. CV13. 200505-CV13. MORE: NYPD Officer Hopes Black Teen Only Coughing Because He Just Choked Him CV02.
CV2. Humor: [Cartoon]. Earth Day 2020
CV3. Information: Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier Inaccurately Claims That the Novel Coronavirus Is Man Made and Contains Genetic Material from HIV, 200911-CV21, 201228-CV29B. There are parallels with misinformation credited to Nobel winners during Ebola2014 =2= =3=. 200812-CV21.2A, 210103-CV03 -B.
-A. MORE: Why These Scientists Don’t Buy the Theory the Coronavirus Escaped from a Lab. Virus Researchers Cast Doubt on Theory of Coronavirus Lab Accident. 210103-CV03 -B,
CV5. Economics: In Most US Cities, Construction Work Continues as Shutdowns Loom. New construction is an indicator of economic health. Not the fact that there is still construction and people being paid, but that there is the expectation that people will be buying new homes and structures for business. POST COLLECTIO: Building itself is not necessarily an indicator of economic health as it may be speculation to take advantage of a market that may or may not emerge, who is the supplier and the quality of materials, and what are workers being paid.
-A. Is stimulus not for those who need money but an indirect way to support business and agendas that want to maintain the status quo. =2= =3= =A= =4= =A= =5= =A= =6= =A= =7= =8=.
CV8. Entertainment: This 51,300 Piece Puzzle Will Either Chill You Out or Ruin Your Quarantine. 201219-CV22.
CV12. Personal, Relationships: Friendships Are Crucial to Survive the Isolation of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Why Do They Feel So Hard. POST COLLECTIO: How is friendship being defined here, does it consider introverts and extroverts, 201115-CV12.1.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Virtual memorials =2= were already an emerging behavior noted in 160821-10 and earlier. CV may normalize it, making it possible to attend when otherwise too far away or at an inconvenient time CV25. Wonder if some memorials will take donations or be protected by paywalls to help preserve the website through time CV5 CV19↓. New Bedford Cancels Memorial Day Parade Due to Covid-19, Plans for Virtual Memorials. With Visits Nixed, Virtual Memorials Projected onto Auschwitz Instead. How To Make an Online Memorial for a Departed Loved One Online memorials started popping up on the Internet in the late 1990s, but were created primarily for people who were well known =2= Video =2= CV2. But now, these sites are for anyone who wants to pay tribute to their departed family member or friend, and ensure they will be remembered. 201231-CV10.
-A. ‘Pure Hell for Victims’ as Stimulus Programs Draw a Flood of Scammers. Not an unintended consequence. Disaster scamming is well known and happening with CV. This is not considering known consequences and not taking corrective actions. The intent of stimulus was likely not to help people but maintain the status quo. Political theater being more important than potential harm 200421-CV1A. This means that the stimulus is not only ill advised, probably do not economic sense, and are rushed out too quickly. Stimulus Checks Have Been Addressed to Dead People While Millions of Americans Are Still Waiting CV05 CV11. POST COLLECTIO: Unintended consequences were a consistent characteristic of gubergenic, meeting an agenda but not considering what will happen.
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: CV17 This Former Maid Turned Bestselling Author Explains Why You Should Keep Paying Your Help Now. I am the rags to riches story that we all have come to know and love. I am successful and educated, and I am no longer in the depths of poverty. I have worked my way out of it. People can look at my story and say that I bootstrapped my way out of poverty. We like to hear those success stories because those are the ones that we latch onto. That's the American myth that we live by and that's what we repeatedly tell people in poverty. CV05 CV8 CV11 CV18. 200424-CV30.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Trump and Fox News Want to Send Their Hydroxychloroquine Hype down the Memory Hole =2= =3=. This particular pseudoscience (belief) caused misdirected effort and wasted money that could have been more effective elsewhere. CV29A↓.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: Another consistent characteristic of 2020 and extending to the end of 2022, was that those who made poor decisions tended to rewrite history (in some cases current events of just a day or more prior), and gaslight what people remember happening. This is usually toward a narrative to what the failed decision makers (Orwellian) want people to believe happened. Four Ways That Other People Can Warp Your Memory. Are Memories Reliable. Expert Explains How They Change More than We Realise. False Memories: Why false memories are common, why memories matter, how misinformation is easily spread, how to spot fake news.
CV19. Technosphere, Anthromes: The Lonely Reality of Zoom Funerals. Covid-19 is forcing people to confront death while simultaneously upending all the usual ways we process loss. I Attended a Zoom Funeral, and I Liked It, mourning in the age of social distancing. Tips for Planning (and Attending) a Funeral Using Zoom CV06 CV15 CV24 CV16↑. Is there a future where “zoom” will mean a virtual meaning and not speed. Will a zoom funeral not mean a fast service but a virtual one.
-A. Robot ‘Graduates’ from College Video.
CV20. Communication: She Spent 9 Days in a Coma and Relearned How to Walk. What this Covid-19 Survivor Wants Protesters to Know. There Is No Anti Lockdown Protest Movement, The Anti Quarantine Protests Seem Spontaneous. But Behind the Scenes, a Powerful Network Is Helping =2=. CV3 CV4 CV11 CV21. [Cartoon =2= =3= =4=].
CV22. Longue Duree: On French Quarantine Isles, Virus Echoes the Past. The Mediterranean islands 4 kilometers off the teeming southern port city of Marseille served as a quarantine center during deadly epidemics in centuries past, helping to shield the French mainland from infection. Now, amid the Coronavirus lockdown and with no tourists, the few residents on the islands again feel cut off, left to fend largely for themselves.
CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Why Iran Is Still Attacking American Troops During the Pandemic.
-A. Here’s What We Know About Kim Jong Un’s Health Situation. True or false there are so many ways for this to go wrong in the context of CV. Power struggles exacerbating CV. People escaping over borders to infect other countries, other countries enforcing their borders with force, N Korea using military force to keep people within N Korea. Military action to either occupy to contain CV in N Korea, for forced access to provide humanitarian aid, or by N Korea to save itself (its elite). 200425-CV23. 200726-CV04. MORE: Oct 2021 North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Has No Health Issues Despite Weight Loss, South Korea Says.
-B. Lack of Virus Testing Stokes Fears in World’s Refugee Camps. There are over 70 million people worldwide who have been driven from their homes by war and unrest, up to 10 million are packed into refugee camps and informal settlements. The relative isolation of many camps may have slowed the virus’ spread, but none are hermetically sealed. Without testing the virus can spread unchecked until people start showing symptoms.
CV24. Norms: A Bitter Pill: Oktoberfest Canceled Due to Coronavirus =2= =3=. Germany has largely slowed CV spread but not yet contained. Mass gathering that attracts global visitors CV25↓ would risk that control and more damaging than the current CV05 losses. Why Does Oktoberfest Start in September CV22. 200332-CV10. MORE: Germany Cancels Oktoberfest Due to Coronavirus Fears CV02, Germany's Oktoberfest Canceled Again in 2021 Due to Coronavirus. POST COLLECTIO: By Dec 2021 Germany was under lockdown of the unvaccinated.
-A. CV30: Note the similarity of the above news stories, the sources*B and shared photos. These indicate a potential organizational silo or social echo chamber =2= (which is itself a false narrative about false narratives CV18) =3= =4=. The shorter (but still too long) format of PDN usually does not allow contrapositioning competing narratives to alert a reader that something is amiss and the likelihood of conflict and misinformation. Not having the means to share information, and more importantly accept contrary information neutralizes research of CV. This is especially so for social sciences that depend on the analogous multiplicity of human perspectives and interpretations. [Chart, Cartoon].
-*B. Familiarity of in what way sources are valid – i.e. reliable as it is a source that consistently lies, or are consistently accurate (the ones that are a mix of the two are the most difficult to use as a source; Having a specific political spin, agenda, narrative are all useful for methodology CV30. If one wants the perspective and interpretation of a specific social group one needs to find their echo chambers. One difficulty is that sources can be hidden through the use of cutouts and proxies, as in the case of disinformation, or the same source can appear to be many sources (self confirming disinformation). In other cases the most valid source may be limited to sources that share a biasing editorial slant such as: moderation, providing accurate information, false balance, and counter narratives to false narratives (fact checking =2=). Moreover, the appearance of balanced reporting =2= =3= =4= can skew interpretation by giving equal attention between a fringe conspiracy theory and a scientific consensus (false balance). Parademic is about perceptions and interpretations of social groups, the social and mobility & mortality consequences, not evaluation if beliefs that influence behavior are factual. This sometimes means using the most ludicrous and extreme illustrative examples.
-C. MORE: Whose Crisis. Pandemic Flu, Communication Disasters and the Struggle for Hegemony. Public health authorities in Germany regard communication as a crucial part of infectious disease prevention and control strategies. Communication becomes even more important during public health crises such as pandemics. Drawing on Briggs and Hallin’s concept of biocommunicability, we analysed the German National Pandemic Plan and key informant interviews with public health experts, critical infrastructure providers and ambulance services. We examined the projected expectations towards the behaviour of the audiences and the projected ways of information circulation informing public health communication strategies during a pandemic. Participants shared the expectation that the population would react towards an influenza pandemic with panic and fear due to a lack of information or a sensationalist media coverage. They associated the information uptake of their target audience with trust in their expertise. While our informants from public health conceptualised trust in terms of a face to face interaction, they sought to gain trust through transparency in their respective institutional settings. Our analysis suggests that this moved health information into a political register where their medical authority was open to debate. In response to this, they perceived the field of communication as a struggle for hegemony. In my observation crisis communication for public health events in the US began to be dismantled in 2017, prior to the CV pandemic. Afterwards attempts to learn how to communicate became a hodge podge of conflicting messages. Maybe social science can at least try again to influence policy on crisis communication. Information on best practices already exist, i.e. lessons unlearned, but implementation as a unified effort have failed.
CV25. Transportation, Travel: B.C. Health Officials Discouraging All non Essential Travel Outside Canada =2=. Amazon Asks Employees to Postpone non Essential Travel. Coronavirus Outbreak: Should You Change or Cancel U.S. Travel Plans =2= =3=. CV24↑. [Signs =2= =3= =4= =5=]. This raises the question, is it essential travel when one is a refugee or forced migrant. Likewise, if medical personnel from the US travel to provide aid to hotspots that will impact on the US and its economy C0V5, will they be willing to go if they are not allowed to come back CV22, especially if they need medical care unavailable at the othered/ despised hotspot =2= =3=.
CV26. Environment, One Health: A No Brainer Stimulus Idea: Electrify USPS Mail Trucks.
-A. The Meat We Eat Is a Pandemic Risk. If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms. It is one thing to accuse Othered countries (not us, foreigners, primitive, undeveloped world) of the risk of wet markets. It is another to examine one’s own sacred cows, fast food dining rooms, crowded supermarkets, junk food CV01 CV24.
-B. As Earth Day Turns 50, Green Movement Faces Fresh Challenges =2= =3=.
CV27. Learning: Opinion: Should Teaching Be Declared an Essential Service. Safe if done on line CV19, but not that different from face to face teaching. Students are bored, parents are essential if learning is to happen, excuses (instead of dog ate it, internet was down), unequal access and means to reach out, office hours, school lunches now delivered or picked up, being underpaid, long hours and being a baby sitting service.
-A. With previous distrust and current disruption of education systems there is an opportunity to push forward on alternatives (choices) that range from legitimate, experimental, adaptive, exploitive and scams. After Seeking to Cut Charter Program, Education Department Calls Backers Desperate. It will be interesting to see post CV if charter schools – with its association with Trumpism (DeVos school choice =2= =3= =4=), anti science 200421-CV17, religious separatism, segregation, susceptibility to being hijacked by non educational agendas, paternalism =2= =A=, lack of supporting data, elite cronyism =2= =3= =A= =B=, patronism, paradoxically fosters unequal access for education, and is probably consistent with the pattern of being led by incompetents who are uninformed, trying to achieve goals through ill advised means – will survive. Education influences behavior in a pandemic by: Shaping critical thinking or fostering mythology as fact; Provides the basis of information acceptance or dismissal; Group identity and attitudes toward other people and authorities; and future residence and occupations. POST COLLECTIO: Forgot to include it is a politicized lightning rod of mask and vaccine mandates to attend school, fitting the school reform (i.e., another way to spin choice) narrative.
-B. The Essential Worker Revolution of 2020 Will Not Wait. When clinging to America’s individualistic ideals in a pandemic means letting poor people die in service of the economy, society cannot hold. Disagree, rich man wars CV23 have been around for at least 8000 years and that has not changed, though warfare’s need for cannon fodder has given skills and social status to the impoverished and disenfranchised that have resulted is social change CV16 CV23. MORE: Essential Workers Are Taking Care of America. Are We Taking Care of Them.
-C. The Lessons We Should Really Be Teaching Kids in the Pandemic.
CV28. Logistics: There Are Not Enough Covid-19 Tests. There Are Also Too Many Covid-19 Tests. Testing Is Biggest Obstacle to Reopening States =2= =3=. Gov. Newsom: Coroners to Examine Deaths Dating Back to December for Covid-19, Death Toll Tops 1,350 CV15. Gov. Newsom Says California Shutdown must Continue, but Surge in Testing Will Help.
-CV28.1. A Zoo Is Struggling So Much That it May Have to Feed Some Animals to Other Animals. =2= =3= =4=. With Coronavirus Money Issues, Zoos Struggle to Feed Animals CV5 CV26.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Celebrity Quarantine Posts Are Inflaming Tensions Between the Haves and Have Nots.
-A. Director of Key Trump Administration Vaccine Agency Suddenly Departs is part of a consistent pattern =2= =3= =4= of appointing someone who is suspect or incompetent, their being caught out and departing (usually to more lucrative positions that still support Trumpism, short terms at resort prisons), or being in conflict with the preferred narrative. The resulting disruptions and vacancies contributed to ineffective CV containment and control. This pattern is unlikely to negate not changing a horse midstream among supporters =2= =3=. [Cartoon, Photos]. Trump Administration Allegedly Removed Doctor Developing Covid-19 Vaccine for Refusing to Back Hydroxychloroquine CV18↑, 200424-CV16A. This is not the same individual noted in 200420-CV24A=6=.
CV30. Methodology: Readers have probably noticed a reluctance on PDN’s part to definitively define categories. PDN consists of categories, but there is a decided tendency to not adhere consistently to the definitions and parameters of these categories. The curator has experience and training in science, intelligence analysis, ethnography, folklore, linguistics, history, art, education, and security & background investigations [Quote =2=]. Though diverse all of these have an emphasis to let the data, evidence, information, feelings determine categories that best fit for a particular project. Using a priori categories means failure. Using categories that were appropriate and derived for on parademic (or any phenomena) may not be appropriate for others. The previously developed categories are informative but should not determine the categories of the next social event. This is especially the case for volatile, dynamic, evolving and rapidly changing disasters, catastrophes, conflicts, global pandemics biocalamity accelerations, economic and population decelerations, and parademics. By definition all of these break the understood reality. Insisting on using previous models that are broken by the current phenomena under study is ludicrous and potentially fatal. [Strip, Heptagram. CV10].
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