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CV Pandemic Daily Notes, 200406 Imagineries, 200407, 200408 Took day off, 200409, 200410, 200411 Humor, 200412 Easter.
1. Public Health is not Medicine, Aviation System, Consequence Management, CV Preparation, 2. Identifying Conspiracy Theory, 3. Japan, Stimulus, Shelter in Place, Telework, He15 Bus.
-1. Public Health (PH) is not Medicine (Med). The two overlap but are not similes. PH is prevention, sanitation, all population (plant and animal), and environment; Medicine is more treatment and care of individuals from trauma, disease (acute and chronic), done in sequential mass. POST COLLECTION: Both are moving toward more preventative roles (left of outbreaks) which includes social and environmental determinants of disease, and are likely to have to deal with surges from accelerated biocalamities.
-A. Coronavirus among Air Traffic Control Workers Could Threaten U.S. Aviation System, illustrates the difference between Med, PH, and the non medical Consequence Management (CM). Medicine will isolate, control spread, and cure the infectious patients from the airport and in aircraft. PH will sanitize airport(s) and aircraft, perform contract tracing to locate those exposed – within the areas ground transportation, and globally at other airports. CM will try to: Get the airport back into operation; Keep the aviation system at least minimally functioning; Shutdown the parts that can’t continue, doing so with minimal disruption to global aviation; Mitigate economic damage to airlines that cascades into other commerce, supply and transportation; Deal with rumors about airlines; Mitigate panic about spread, and fear about the airport and all that its personnel and passengers are infected and lethal to be near; Debunk and counter the sources of conspiracy theories of Chinese passengers intentionally infecting Westerners (undoubtedly that is already in circulation); Advise decision makers on consequences of travel bans; Try to solve pre existing problems that are being exacerbated; and will have cascading impacts.
-B. It is probable that readers have noted that PH and Med were unprepared for CV and response was delayed. CM is even more so. Predictable and known cascades (such as supply) keep coming as surprises, and the biocrisis continues spiraling more and more out of control. Those who are perceived as being responsible for fixing the problems and preventing it in the first place (elected officials, police, scientists, journalists, government workers, military, religion) get more and more blame resulting in less and less trust. Parademic can inform CM, but as a field that has been over focused on terrorism, its limited capability are no longer all hazard, i.e. everything non medical that can go wrong in CBERII (Chemical, Biological, Environmental, Radiological, Infrastructure and Information) events, 200329-CV. Inside America’s Two Decade Failure to Prepare for Coronavirus. Top officials from three administrations describe how crucial lessons were learned and lost, programs launched and cancelled, and budgets funded and defunded. Coronavirus Is the Greatest Global Science Policy Failure in a Generation.
-2. One of the cues that something is politically motivated and/or for personal gain is apophenia. That the pattern of misinformation and conspiracy theories espoused are not necessarily logically consistent with other internal beliefs held by an individual or group. Some of these there are paradoxes, if not direct contradictions of previous or currently held beliefs. One would expect an antivax individual to also be a denialist of climate change. Instead one is as likely to find that the same logical fallacies that are the reasoning of antivax will be applied to pro environmental statements, 201206-1A. Peter Navarro: What Trump's Covid-19 Tsar Lacks in Expertise, He Makes Up. Green activist turned China hawk shares president’s brittle traits and wrote books quoting expert who turned out to be fictitious version of himself. 200419-CV4.
-3. Japan to Declare Coronavirus Emergency, Launch Stimulus of Almost $1 Trillion. Work from Home, They Said. In Japan, It's Not So Easy. When it comes to working from home, Japan simply doesn't get it. In the midst of a Coronavirus epidemic, with a state of emergency about to be imposed, commuter trains in Tokyo are still pretty packed, and many companies are acting like nothing has really changed. This is a nation where you This is a nation where you still have to show up in person. Work culture demands constant face to face interaction, partly to show respect. Employees typically are judged on the hours they put in rather than they output they produce. Managers don’t trust their staff to work from home, and many companies are just not set up for telework. Being unprepared to telecommute was predictable for those familiar with Japanese Salary Men, or from observing the inability to use remote robots for Fukashima =2= and anticipate and adapt to change that were evident following the aftermath of that nuclear meltdown*, which is still a threat. This resistance is also observed in European based cultures with inability to recognize that work is no longer a place, time, or even specific tasks. There are still some jobs where this is necessary, but it’s no longer the only ubiquitous option. *POST COLLECTIO: There is a catholic assumption that everything is OK and safe until a disaster happens, that change and improvement don’t occur until there is a disaster.
-A. MORE: [Strip]. 201223-CV18. POST COLLECTION: Education is likewise another area that people were unprepared for to be online. Most people are unaware that part of learning systems is to part to train people to learn and teach in specific way, whether rigid rote memorization, free style discovery, in a classroom setting or online. In general few had the experience of learning online, despite being very familiar with computer gaming and the internet.
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