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CV03. Information: Sharing Countertrend, CV04. Politics: Warp Speed Antivax, CV05. Economics: Poverty Hunger, Scarcity Hunger, CV07. Emergence: Masturbation, CV20. Communication: Avoiding Communication Failures, CERC, Eroding CDC, CV23. Polemic, Nocuous: Floyd Rioting Proxy, CV26. Environment, One Health: New Squirrel Habitats, CV27. Learning: Failed Sustaining Conflicting Goals, CV30. Methodology: The Virtual CV Pandemic, Already Broken, Research Cues
PDN Introduction, Glossary
CV03. Information: The Coronavirus Is Democratizing Knowledge. Despite toxic misinformation, the pandemic has empowered us to become cocreators, coproducers, and codistributors of what we know. Another indicator of information gap, i.e. polarization that has resulted in people having access limited to particular agendas. This is a countertrend to the apparent larger trend of not sharing information or spreading disinformation. It’s Not Just Trump – Twitter Fact Checking Thousands of Tweets, Many about Coronavirus.
CV04. Politics: Some Worry 'Operation Warp Speed' Plays into Anti Vaccination Movement's Hands. The antivax community has worked for decades to cast doubt on the safety of vaccines, arguing without evidence that there is a link between childhood vaccinations and autism. Since the novel Coronavirus began sweeping through the country, members of the antivax movement have found common cause with people protesting stay at home measures and have shown up at multiple rallies. Operation Warp Speed can be used by the antivax movement to spread misinformation because it plays to arguments they are already making: that vaccines are being rushed without enough attention on all of their effects, which is a tenet CV18 of the antivax movement. CV20. 200604-CV06A. 200605-CV01. 201120-CV18.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: The Antivax panic used the cultural referent* Warp SpeedCV06 =2= =3= =4= to raise fears that rushing the vaccine was not safe, and then used that as one of the reasons not to take the vaccine. This rushed vaccine issue appears several times in the coming months, to include the slow [distribution], extended into 2021. 200908-CV18. *The Trekkie Community Reacts to the Use of 'Their' Term.
-B. MORE: Oct 2022 Biden's Operation Warp Speed Revival Stumbles out of the Gate. Unlikely the Biden administration would call any vaccine development. The problems are Legal Issues in Covid-19 Vaccine Development and Deployment, the PAHPA Reauthorization 200510-CV04, funding and techno medical issues.
CV05. Economics: People Are Going to Go Hungry: Pandemic Effects Could Leave 54m Americans Without Food. A record number of Americans face hunger this year as the catastrophic economic fallout caused by the Coronavirus pandemic looks set to leave tens of millions of people unable to buy enough food to feed their families. MORE: The Pandemic Recession Has Pushed a Further 9.8 Million Americans into Food Insecurity. One Year Later Feeding America Asks America "How Many Facing Hunger Is Too Many?". MORE: Sep 2022 Biden Takes Aim at Food Insecurity with First Hunger Conference in 50 Years. Biden Lays out Plan to End Hunger in the U.S. by 2030. This goal is unlikely if current trends continue. At best the number facing food insecurity and malnutrition will remain the same, or the same proportion of the population.
-A. As this continues it is likely to become a logistics CV28 problem as production and distribution fail. This is already being seen with meat. Worker Shortage Concerns Loom in Immigrant Heavy Meatpacking. Tyson Promises Meatpackers Who Die from Coronavirus Will Not Go to Waste CV02. 200523-CV28. 200612-CV03D.
-B. MORE: May 2022 Baby Formula Shortages and Covid-19 Led to Risky Feeding Practices. Jun 2022 Many Baby Formula Plants Weren’t Inspected Because of Covid. The National Baby Formula Shortage and the Inequitable U.S. Food System. Oct 2022 Stop Companies Using Covid-19 Fear to Push Infant Formula, is part of a longer debate about (natural) breast feeding vs (capitalists) formula. In starvation conditions mothers can’t always provide breast milk, so dry baby formula is an option if there is clean water.
CV07. Emergence: Forget Jigsaw Puzzles and Banana Bread – 71% of Americans Are Using Masturbation for Self Care Right Now, 201219-CV22. Besides dubious research and statistics from a company that may be biased about interpretations, the charts in its study indicated a downward trend. PDN found no recent reliable studies related to masturbation in the context of disasters. [Meme, Chart].
CV20. Communication: Five Crisis Communications #Fails for 2020. It’s the year 2020 and yet, sadly, some organizations and individuals seem to still be living 10 to 20 years in the past* in terms of crisis communications best practices. Here are five ways in which they fail as a result, providing you with the ability to learn from their mistakes. 1) Not providing for 24/7 response to breaking events. 2) Providing data that doesn’t hold up to fact checking CV03. 3) Using only one medium to reach your stakeholders. 4) Flying below the radar. 5) Trying to downplay a crisis situation.
-*A. Beg to differ. The Crisis & Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) Manual was first published in 2002, but the principles iterated above have been know for far longer than that. How to most effectively speak to the public in health related disasters has been known and taught for decades, if not longer. The problem is not from not knowing how to best inform the public, but how to do so with the desired spin. Starting in 2017 CERC was slowly withdrawn and no longer updated, along with the erosion of CDC ability to communicate effectively and loss of being a trusted agency. The result is the inarticulate messages during CV that break every one of the above guidelines, as well as more that are in CERC Spokesperson Preparation. Trump's Coronavirus Lies and Propaganda Suggest America Needs its Own Perestroika.
-B. MORE: The Keystone Cops Vs. Coronavirus, HHS has become completely dysfunctional. Meanwhile, some of the CDC guidelines on dealing with Coronavirus defy logic and science. In all, this is a living nightmare. Who could have imagined what is now happening to science in this country. Oct 2022 How the CDC’s Communication Failures During Covid Tarnished the Agency.
CV23. Polemic, Nocuous: George Floyd's Death, Protests, Coronavirus: America Is a Tinderbox. As a Pandemic and Protests over George Floyd's Death Collide, Officials Stress: Wear a Mask. George Floyd Protests Show That the Coronavirus Pandemic must Be Over. Minneapolis, the Coronavirus, and Trump’s Failure to See a Crisis Coming. Like the Coronavirus crisis, the riots 210103-23B -C following George Floyd’s death stemmed not from treacherous unknowns but from the Trump Administration’s failure to learn from even the most recent past. Trump Vows to Stop Mob Violence amid Riots over George Floyd Death. George Floyd Protesters Told to Get Tested as Global Cases Top 6 Million. It will now be possible for the administration to deflect the blame of the continued spread of CV in the US on the Floyd Riots 210103-23B -C, however that will probably be lost among the other competing narratives of gubergenic. [Cartoon, Photo].
-A. These Photos Capture the Stark Contrast in Police Response to the George Floyd Protests and the Anti Lockdown Protests. Gottlieb: Need to Resolve 'Underlying Problems' of Racial Inequity to Stop Coronavirus Pandemic. It is known B↓ that more of the impoverished and not white are being exposed to CV and dying from it. The reaction for the Floyd police murder, but be a proxy for years of abuse, disenfranchisement, and lack of access to medical care. MORE: Derek Chauvin Guilty in Death of George Floyd, Federal Grand Jury Indicts Four Former Minneapolis Police Officers in George Floyd's Death.
-B. Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Injustice and the Coronavirus, how social and environmental inequality have contributed to the outsized impact of Covid-19 on low income neighborhoods and communities of color. A↑.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Are Squirrels Living in Your Parked Car’s Undercarriage Video. While you've been sheltering in place, your car may not be going entirely unused. It turns that all kinds of critters are turning vehicles into their homes. Wildlife experts say, parked cars make perfect homes for small animals, and their favorite place to hide is under the hood. One squirrel recently took up residence inside the air filter.
CV27. Learning: Practices, Knowledge, and the next Pandemic: A Lesson from a Failed Participatory Public Health Intervention. The research project was successful in collecting data and producing published findings, it also failed because the team’s stated ultimate goal was to collaboratively design a surveillance system that took into account the perspectives of the community members and the relevant public health officials.
-A. Finding the virus for research represented professional success to the researchers, while it represented potential trouble to the nurse aide and the community leader. To the women who participated in the project, the virus became the key to having animal health services locally available. Paying attention to practices involves not analyzing opposing beliefs about the disease as “stemming from antagonistic principles and look instead for differences in practical effect”. By failing to do this, our “virus talk” was a distraction, because while we were all talking about the presence or absence of viruses or about people’s animal health beliefs, we missed the opportunity to talk about what was really important: how to mobilize the resources that would improve access to health care to these communities while also improving the control of potential epidemiological outbreaks. 200531-1E.
CV30. Methodology: Cues for Ethnography in Pandamning Times: Thinking with Digital Sociality in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Watching the pandemic unfold, we have grappled not just with its personal effects, but also with how to consider it as ethnographers and educators. What does this pandemic mean for the world(s) we continue to build our careers studying, and how should we take it into account when advising students whose own research projects coincide with this period of upheaval. As others have recently acknowledged, the current crisis is likely to have far reaching effects for field research, especially immersive ethnography.
-A. Moving methods online may be one part of the answer, but here we argue that ethnographers should also look at the Covid-19 pandemic – and more explicitly, at the expansion of digital communication technologies and platforms within it – as a revelatory crisis*B. In this context, we propose a series of “cues” (parademic uses the term indicator) for ethnographic attention in this moment of multiple cultural, material, and political transformations.
-*B. In parademic it has been noted that disasters tend to reveal social flaws =2= =3= =4= =5= =6=, unexamined assumptions that policy and actions are based upon, erroneous beliefs (to include engineering and science), and what is broken but hidden or normalized. This however does not equate that something will be done to correct the flaw. The usual pattern is to return to the status quo and a priori narratives. | Unfortunate that Revelatory was the term chosen due to its religious and apocalypse connotations.
-C. We think of these as cues, rather than research questions, because thinking ethnographically about (and during) this pandemic seems to us a slow exercise in distinguishing sound from noise. It may be too early to identify patterns of discourse or behavior that will prove enduring and significant, or to pinpoint those which are ephemeral (and what that ephemerality means). Even so, much ethnographic research relies on using intuition and careful attention to sense patterns in social interaction, which subsequently underpin formal research questions. To this end, we suggest three themes that anthropologists might attune ourselves to in this period of global disruption.
-D. 1) Movement of labor and personal relationships to digital platforms CV12 CV19. 2) How are collective experiences imagined/ enacted through social media CV18. 3) As social distancing is lifted (or ignored), what are the ensuing effects CV01 CV03 CV04 CV05 CV11 CV13 CV16 CV21 CV24 CV25 CV26 CV29 CV33. 4) Onward Provocations: Where is the global in the global pandemic CV04 CV05 CV06 CV08 CV10 CV15 CV16 CV17 CV26 CV27 CV28 CV31 CV32.
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