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CV01. Protection: Smoking, CV02. Humor: Defined by Context, CV03. Information: Message and Form, Press Conference Parameters, CV04. Politics: Interpretation of Sweden, CV05. Economics: Unemployment, CV06. Linguistics: Relabel, CV08. Entertainment: Movies, Video Games, Sports, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Poetry, CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: Apococats, CV12. Relationships: Change, CV15. Death: Category, CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Covid-19 Model, CV19. Technosphere: Physical, Material, CV19.1. Germ Warfare, Cures, CV22. Longue Duree: Peanuts Metaphor, CV22.1. Too Fast Vaccines, 1976 Vaccine, Antivax, CV23. Polemic, Nocuous: Flyovers, Heros, Postmortem, CV26. Environment, One Health: Beagle Biomes, CV27. Learning: First Wave, CV28. Logistics: Meat Packing Risks, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Irresponsible and Poor Decisions, CV30. Methodology: Metainformation, CV31. Futuring: Away from Normal, CV32. Anthromes: Cities, Infrastructure.
PDN Introduction, Glossary
CV01. Protection: Little to No Evidence That Smoking Protects Against Covid-19; May Increase Risk of Complications Instead. Full Claim: Smoking may protect against Covid-19 ... Scientists believe nicotine might protect against Coronavirus. Inadequate support: Some studies have found a disproportionately low number of smokers among Covid-19 patients. However, these studies have not provided direct evidence that smoking is actually protective against Covid-19. Overstates scientific confidence: The hypothesis that nicotine from cigarette smoking lowers ACE2 expression in cells is not confirmed. Furthermore, several studies have shown that smoking actually increases ACE2 expression, which theoretically would increase risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. 220105-4.
CV02. Humor: Presume that [Cartoons and Memes] overlap with CV02 CV04. Humor does not necessarily mean laughter provoking, no more than funny and comical do. Humor is sometimes entertainment CV08 but is more about communication of information CV03↓. It all depends on context if something is amusing or not. [Cartoon =2=].
CV03. Information: [Cartoon =2= =3= =4= CV02] Information is the message, Communication CV20 is the media, in this case an exaggerated image.
-A. Reminder, parademic is an interdisciplinary social science (albeit only myself doing directed research at this time) of beliefs in the context of a real or imagined biocalamity. Information does not mean fact in terms of testable against reality, but in terms that there are people who believe something is true and will act as if it is true. Calls to Poison Control Centers Spike after Trump Disinfectant Comments, No, Poison Control Calls Aren't Suddenly Spiking After Trump's Disinfectant Comments - Reason. 200518-CV13. 200522-CV11.1.
-B. Whatever the opinion (evidence based or other), a press conference is not the time and place to have a meeting to brainstorm and discuss ideas. A press conference =2= is to pass on best available information (though sometimes its advertising and marketing CV04 CV05 or intentionally misleading CV04 CV23), announcing decisions and events, and to gather information about what the various press and presumably the various publics are interested in. [Cartoon =2=].
CV04. Politics: Conservative Americans See Coronavirus Hope in Progressive Sweden. Swedes are quick to note their hands off Coronavirus approach relies on a concept antithetical to American conservative philosophy: extreme trust in government. Anger in Sweden as Elderly Pay Price for Coronavirus Strategy. Swedish Official Anders Tegnell Says 'Herd Immunity' in Sweden Might Be a Few Weeks Away. Coronavirus: Are We Underestimating How Many People Have Had It. Sweden Thinks So. Has Sweden Found the Best Response to the Coronavirus. Its Death Rate Suggests it Hasn’t. The Legal Reason Why Sweden Did Not Impose Lockdown. 200502-CV04. 200418-CV4. [Cartoon =2=]. Swedish Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell the Target of Praise, Criticism over Handling of Covid-19 Pandemic
CV05. Economics: No Income and Number 88,000 in Line: this Is What It's like to Be Unemployed in America. [Cartoon =2=].
CV06. Linguistics: Was Language but have been covering more than what language is CV30↓.
CV08. Entertainment: What’s Going to Happen to the Movies this Year. Video Games Are Having a Moment – but Sports Games Are in a Rut.
CV09. Arts, Creativity: Why Poetry Is Having a Moment Amid the Global Quarantine. The poem is enjoying a bump in cultural relevance as the world sits at home and considers its surroundings. Why your timeline is possibly suddenly sprinkled with verse. MORE: Poetry over Panic in Singapore.
CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: [Strip].
CV12. Personal, Relationships: How Coronavirus Will Change Human Relationships.
CV15. Death: This stub was Grief, but is covering more than that. At this point I might as well be blunt and call it by the umbrella term that covers grief, funerals, morgues, sequela, loss, morbidity, mortality, counting, cadavers..... [Cartoon CV29↓]
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Where the Latest Covid-19 Models Think We’re Headed – and Why They Disagree =2=.
CV19. Technosphere: Have separated Anthromes from this to CV32↓. There is overlap but they are distinct during CV. It is not unusual for there to be blurring between categories CV06, and well and combining of what were separate, and separation of what was a single category.
CV19.1. US Germ Warfare Research Leads to New Early Covid-19 Test, has potential to identify carriers before they become infectious. Unfortunate use of the words “germ warfare” CV06 CV23 to capture attention. Germ warfare is not the official designation of biodefense, biosecurity labs. Biological weapons and tactics have been prohibited since 1989. The headline will be used as proof that the US has germ warfare labs =2=, supporting blame games =2= =3= ADDED: Trump Doubles down Dodging Blame for Virus: Intelligence Has Just Reported to Me That I Was Correct, conspiracy theory and disinformation =2=. There’s No Silver Bullet for Curing Coronavirus. 200501-CV13.
CV22. Longue Duree: Coronavirus as Metaphor: It’s Not Peanuts. No problem can be so complicated that it can’t be run away from. [Cartoon =2=] CV26↓.
CV22.1. The Last Time the Government Sought a ‘Warp Speed’ Vaccine, it Was a Fiasco. The Public Health Legacy of the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak, is it responsible for some Americans' hesitancy to embrace vaccines =2=. 201120-CV19. 200429-21.
CV23. Polemic, Nocuous: Blue Angels, Thunderbirds Fly over DC to Thank Health Care Workers. In the military heroes get a parade and a medal (sometimes postmortem), but no extra pay. Same goes for Health Care Personnel who would probably prefer to get PPE, avoid postmortem, and a pay raise would be nice.
CV26. Environment, One Health: [Strip] CV22↑.
CV27. Learning: Learning from the First Coronavirus Wave Will Be Critical. [Cartoon].
-A. POST COLLECTIO: In 2022 it is apparent that there was no learning from the first wave. When cases start to decline for about two weeks in a jurisdiction’s geographic area, protective measures were relaxed, and then there was another wave/ surge that starts two weeks after that. Pathogens don’t recognize borders, especially when a particular bioagent is global, with opportunities to evolve due to the roller coaster of its population (waves of hosts available for infection) size.
CV28. Logistics: More than 4,000 US Meatpacking Workers Have Covid-19. Trump Is Keeping Meatpacking Plants Open – but Employees Are Scared to Show up for Work. [Cartoon =2=]. 200429-CV28. ADDED: We're Modern Slaves: How Meat Plant Workers Became the New Frontline in Covid-19 War. 200506CV16.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Eventually would like to label this stub Leadership, but not quite ready to do so yet as most of the examples during CV are not leadership but abuse of positional power. Thank You for Your Service, Jared Kushner =2=. [Cartoon CV15↑]. Mike Pence Tours Mayo Clinic Without Mask [Cartoon].
-A. ADDED: Pence Says He Should Have Worn Mask During Mayo Clinic Visit. Jared Kushner Smacked down by Michigan Gov. Whitmer for Blatant Lies about Coronavirus Support.
CV30. Methodology: Meta Information, is information about information. This was implied in PDWN but not been addressed as part of PDN of CV. Lack of meta information limits its being methodologically sound in terms of social science contribution to decision making, but still of value of providing at least part of the social context of CV. Meta information is part of social context: The source, its slant, reliability, author, how presented, when presented, changes in meaning and definition, SLAI RIDE 200429-CV03, the various communication channels CV20 it is transmitted in, what is being said beyond what is stated, cultural and current news [Cartoon] referents, assemblage with other information and how categorized, variations with same and different meanings and interpretations [Cartoon =A=] 200501-29.1ADDED, linguistic CV06 ↑, larger social context, if suppressed or widely circulated, and more. 200505CV30.
CV31. Futuring: I Have Seen the Future – There's No Going Back to Normal. And why would we want to go back to the normal of how things were. That is what got us into this existential situation in the first place, and CV is only part of this multitude of problems.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: Disasters do have a way of revealing problems that up to the time of the disaster were ignored. In the case of CV the problems could no longer be covered up in education, funding health care, the three branches of government, law enforcement, accurate reporting, data collection, poverty, etc., etc., etc.
CV32. Anthromes: Manmade Biomes, Habitats and Environment, that have direct consequence from the technosphere*A, interacting with the social sphere and life in general where ever humans have changed or created environments. Get Me out of Here. Americans Flee Crowded Cities amid Covid-19, Consider Permanent Moves. This will not be permanent, too many inconveniences and insufficient infrastructure*A, such as hospitals. What will remain will be the preexisting wealth gap.
-*A. Infrastructure could be a separate category but is broken down in PDN as Protection CV01, Entertainment CV08, Death CV09, Technosphere CV10, Communication CV20, Transportation, Travel CV25, Learning (education systems and facilities) CV27, Logistics CV28.
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