CV Pandemic Daily Notes 200526

Updated: 220815

CV01. Protection: Stopping Rules to Protect Health Workers, CV01.1. Russia Not Protecting Health Workers, CV08. Entertainment: The Ickabog, J.K. Rowling, Lockdown, CV11. Exploitation: Car Thefts, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Handicapped Vulnerabilities CV15. Death: Looking Bad, CV15.1. Following Lockdown at Personal Cost, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Conspiracy Magnet, CV20. Communication: Twitter Fact Checking Gubergenic Misinformation Source, CV20.1. Making False Beliefs Stronger, CV22. Longue Duree: 1957 1968 Flu Pandemics, CV23. Polemic, Nocuous: Pentagon Mission Over Command, CV23.1. Famine and Terrorism, CV25. Movement: ICE Spreading CV, CV27. Learning: Impact of and on Schools, CV28. Logistics: Sellers Market, Competition Increasing Costs, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Mayors vs CV and Ignorance, Masked Leadership, CV32. Anthromes: Abandon Cities

PDN Introduction, Glossary

CV01. Protection: Trump Team Killed Rule Designed to Protect Health Workers from Pandemic like Covid-19 in 2017 stopped federal regulations that would have forced the health care industry to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic such as Covid-19. That decision is documented in federal records reviewed by NPR. If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan where they made sure they had enough respirators and they were prepared for this sort of pandemic. It would have also mitigated the economic consequences of having to do a total lockdown.

            CV01.1. We’re Expendable: Russian Doctors Face Hostility, Mistrust. Putin's Response to Russia's Covid-19 Crisis Angers Medical Workers. 200506-23. 200819-CV01.1.

CV08. Entertainment: J.K. Rowling Begins Publishing “The Ickabog,” for Children in Lockdown, will be published in 34 installments starting on Tuesday, with one installment released every weekday until July 10. It will be targeted to readers ages 7 to 9 and published as a book in November. J.K. Rowling Publishes First Chapters of New Story Online. The Ickabog by JK Rowling, First Look Review: A Fun but Lightweight Fairy Tale That Lacks Harry Potter's Magic.

CV11. Exploitation: Lock Your Cars. Vehicle Theft Spikes in Covid-19 Pandemic. MORE: Dec 2021 Bay Area Car Owners Leaving Trunks Open While Parked amid Wave of Car Break Ins. This is likely to be related to Looters Strike High End San Francisco Area Stores for Third Day in a Row, which may be a consequence of a combination of CV, low police morale (defund police taken to an extreme =2=), wealth gap, racism, current gubergenic at the city thru national levels and misinformation/ incitement.

CV12. Personal, Relationships: Fear of the Unknown. I sit in a (wheel)chair all the time. I don’t have the ab muscles and all the other muscles to help you cough. Your lungs actually deteriorate after you’re paralyzed, so you lose the ability to suck in air. When I get sick, it’s usually something like pneumonia because I just don’t have the lung capacity to either breathe deeply, or to clear out the nasty bacteria that’s in there. So, imagine having a cold, some kind of respiratory infection. That would present a lot of complications, right. Now, imagine that that respiratory infection is the Coronavirus.

CV15. Death: Trump: Even One Death That Makes Me Look Bad Is a Tragedy ^CV02. [Cartoon these are all undercounts].

            CV15.1. Netherlands Coronavirus: Prime Minister Mark Rutte Did Not Visit Dying Mother for Weeks to Comply with Coronavirus Lockdown ^{CV12 CV29}.

CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Covid-19: A Magnet for Medical Conspiracy Theories, which are at the heart of nearly all medical pseudoscience, be it antivaccine beliefs or quackery.

CV20. Communication: Indirectly related to CV which is subject to gubergenic, misinformation and polarization ^CV02, but neither company state that protecting Public Health is the reason for their decision. In a First, Twitter Adds Fact Check Warnings to Trump Tweets =2=. The move comes after years in which Twitter has declined to apply its community guidelines and other rules of the road to the 45^th U.S. president. It’s too soon to tell whether this action represents a turning point for Twitter in its treatment of Trump. But the warning labels suggest that the president has finally crossed a line that the company was not willing to move for him. [Tweet, Cartoon]. Trump Accuses Twitter of Stifling Free Speech after Fact Check =2=. Facebook Executives Shut down Efforts to Make the Site less Divisive, Facebook Studied How it Polarizes Users, Then Ignored the Research 200605-CV01.

            -A. ADDED: Trump Will Sign an Executive Order on Social Media Companies: White House Spokeswoman, Trump Threatens Twitter over Fact Checks: What’s Next, Trump Is Threatening to Close down Social Media Companies. Can He Actually Do That. Jack Dorsey Assures Twitter Users That Company Having Most Idiotic Possible Internal Conversations about Trump’s Account =2= ^CV02 =3=.

            -B. MORE: Snap Will Stop Promoting Trump’s Account after Concluding His Tweets Incited Violence, Donald Trump Blasts Radical Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel in Escalation of Silicon Valley Fight. MORE: Snapchat to Stop Promoting Trump’s Account. Why Trump Can’t Claim Twitter Is Violating His Free Speech. It Only Took Two Hours for Trump's Administration to Contradict His Threat to Shut down Twitter. [Cartoon =2=]. Twitter Adds a New Warning to a Trump Tweet: “This Tweet Violated the Twitter Rules about Glorifying Violence”, Twitter Obscures, Warns on Trump Tweet Glorifying Violence. Trump Says Right Wing Voices Are Being Censored. The Data Says Something Else. 200728-CV03.1E.

            CV20.1. Seeing Is Believing: How Media Mythbusting Can Actually Make False Beliefs Stronger. Social media companies are working to reduce the spread of myths. In contrast, mainstream media and other information channels have in many cases ramped up efforts to address misinformation. But these efforts may backfire by unintentionally increasing public exposure to false claims.

            -A. MORE: Why the Backfire Effect Does Not Explain the Durability of Political Misperceptions. Accuracy increasing effects of corrective information like fact checks often do not last or accumulate; instead, they frequently seem to decay or be overwhelmed by cues from elites and the media promoting more congenial but less accurate claims. As a result, misperceptions typically persist in public opinion for years after they have been debunked. Given these realities, the primary challenge for scientific communication is not to prevent backfire effects but instead, to understand how to target corrective information better and to make it more effective. Ultimately, however, the best approach is to disrupt the formation of linkages between group identities and false claims and to reduce the flow of cues reinforcing those claims from elites and the media. Doing so will require a shift from a strategy focused on providing information to the public to one that considers the roles of intermediaries in forming and maintaining belief systems.

CV22. Longue Duree: Revisiting the 1957 and 1968 Influenza Pandemics. Both were ignored by Public Health and Media, contributing to 10's of thousands of deaths. 200529-CV22.

CV23. Polemic, Nocuous: Pentagon Charts its Own Course on Covid-19, Risking Trump's Ire.

            CV23.1. How the Coronavirus Increases Terrorism Threats in the Developing World. As the disease wreaks its havoc in areas poorly equipped to handle its spread, terrorism likely will increase there as well. food insecurity – the lack of both financial and physical access to nutritious food, which leads to malnutrition and undernourishment in a population – makes citizens angry at their governments. Citizens conclude that their political leaders are either unable or unwilling to ease their suffering. This anger gives terrorist groups opportunities to recruit new members by providing them a violent outlet for venting their frustrations. In many cases, terrorist organizations do what their governments can’t or won’t do: give people the food and money they badly need to survive. 200918-CV21.

CV25. Movement: How ICE Is Spreading Coronavirus Across the Country. Social distancing goes out the window when detainees are moved repeatedly, via bus or plane, between facilities. ^CV33. 200626-CV33.

CV27. Learning: When Schools Shut Down: How Education Interruptions Can Hurt Student Achievement. 6 Tips for Reporting on How Covid-19 School Closures Affect Student Learning. [Cartoon]. Rethinking the Role of the School after Covid-19.

            -A. MORE Mar 2022 Two Years On: Covid-19 Threatens to Derail the Prospects for a Generation in the Global South.

CV28. Logistics: States Give Few Details on Billions Spent on Virus Supplies. Many states set aside purchasing safeguards amid a scramble for supplies among health care providers, states, the U.S. government and other countries. Instead of seeking competitive bids and vetting them for months, states have closed emergency deals in days with businesses claiming to have access to supplies. In some cases, states have prepaid to ensure orders aren’t diverted elsewhere. The creation of states as competitors rather than a cooperative to buy in bulk has likely increased costs, duplicated purchases, diminished mutual aid, increased hoarding, and increased the number of unnecessary deaths. There is also been major profiteering with poor quality products. 200804-CV07.1.

            -A. POST COLLECTIO: There were still reports of medical scams and fake test kits =2= in Aug 2022.

CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Facing Death Threats and No Pay, Mayors Are the Frontline Commanders of the Coronavirus Pandemic. ADDED: In 1919, the Mayor of Oakland Was Arrested for Failing to Wear a Mask ^CV22.

            CV29.1. Trump Dismisses His Own Government’s Guidance about Masks as “Politically Correct”, [Cartoon] =2= =3=. Masks Spark Public Judgment, Ridicule among Customers as Businesses Reopen. We All Worry about It. Grocery Workers Fear Confrontations with Shoppers over Mask Rules, if a grocery market is found to be the source of an outbreak it may need to be closed to decontaminate shelves, building and products that can be sterilized. Otherwise product will need to be destroyed and not just thrown out or passed on to services authorized to use expired food. This can mean closure of several stores for an extended period limiting availability of food. Hundreds of Unmasked Revelers Enjoyed a 'MAGA Boat Parade' in South Carolina as American Coronavirus Death Toll Approaches 100,000. ^{CV01 CV04}.

CV32. Anthromes: Frustrated and Struggling, New Yorkers Contemplate Abandoning the City They Love.

            -A. MORE: May 2022 People Are Moving to Manhattan Than Before the Pandemic. Aug 2022 Nearly 50000 Leave New York City for Hudson Valley, NYC’s Population Plummeted During Peak Covid – and It’s Still Likely Shrinking. The fact that headlines and articles published in the same time frame can be diametrically opposed has always occurred, not just during parademics. In some cases, the explanation for this is easy to find (lies, fakes, hoax, bias), but in other cases perspective, interpretation can be both valid and evidence based. As it is not possible to collect all information, Parademic tries to collect a spectrum that indicates the range of information available by finding these apparent opposites, leaving for later synthesis of why this is the case ^CV30. In addition, this does not report if the exodus correlates with higher prices that residences can be sold for and ability to get more outside the cities while working via internet, the differences between daytime and nighttime populations, and comparison with rapid losses of population to the gradual progress over time.