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CV01. Protection: South Africa, Limiting Free Speech, CV02. Humor: Joke Stand, Lucy Van Pelt, CV03. Information: CDC as Source, CV Task Force, Ziki, Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, Dr Birx, Rumor Generation, CV05. Economics: Health Care Layoffs, CV06. Linguistics: The Bubble, CV07. Emergence: Area Isolation, Getting Tested, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Beauty and the CV Beastie, CV11. Exploitation: Extremism, Antebellum Mobs, CV13. Outliers: Disney World, Squatters, Trespassing, CV14. Uncategorized, Miscellaneous: Great and Powerful, CV15. Death: NIMBY Graves, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Stress of Shelter in Place, CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Shifting Predictions, Remdesivir Rejection, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: North East Russia Fires, CV23. Polemic, Nocuous: Vaccine Race, Vaccine Wars, CV24. Norms: Balancing Protection, Profit and People, CV25. Transportation, Travel: Mass Transportation Dependency, CV26. Environment, One Health: Solving One Problem Creates Another, CV26.1. Mountain Gorillas, CV27. Learning: School Reunions, Dunning-Kruger, CV28. Logistics: US Food System, CV31. Futuring: Post CV Epidemics, Antivax, CV31.1. CV Sequela, CV32. Anthromes: Commuter Disease Spread, Evolving Community, Social Identity
PDN Introduction, Glossary
CV01. Protection: Citing Virus Misinformation, South Africa Tests Speech Limits CV30. Suppressing false Covid-19 information may have benefits, but as South Africa shows, combating fake news isn’t simple. 201224-CV05.
CV02. Humor: Six Year Old Boy Sets up a Joke Stand to Give Neighbors a Laugh During Quarantine. [Strip].
CV03. Information: The curator is unqualified to rate the reliability of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clinical information. However, in terms of parademic information there has been a decreasing trend in reliability, including not adhering to its own guidelines 200706-CV26A. At one time I accepted without close review information (interpretation of data) from CDC. First noticed during Zika in Puerto Rico toward end of 2016 that data was accurate, but framed to be misleading. Incomplete information was applied to accusations of mismanagement, ignoring data (such as funding, opposition to condoms and birth control in both the CDC and Puerto Rico) that was pertinent to interpretation, Feud Erupted Between CDC, Puerto Rico over Reporting of Zika Cases 2017. This trend continued with misrepresentation of information about Puerto Rico and Hurricane Maria that continue to this day. This trend of contaminated information spread to related health issues of guns, death counts from CV =2= =3= =4= =5= =6=, poverty, etc. At this time it can be ascertained that statistics and interpretations have been manipulated, but sorting out what is correct and incorrect has been obscured, possibly beyond recovery in both senses of post CV and of the data. Why Coronavirus Reporting Data Is So Bad. B E↓.
-A. Though CDC can no longer be an unquestioned source of information, and the CV Task Force has never had the reputation for high reliability. For parademic it is insightful to identify in what context the information is considered valid, and why the deviance from norms and providing useful information has deteriorated. Dr Birx is an example of an information source that must be evaluated to determine in what way valid. She is tainted with an association with abstinence only education and as a means to control AIDS =2= =3= =4= =5=. Furthermore, it does not help that some of her behaviors are being an apologist for Trump =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= CV11↓.
-B. Personally I have never meet anyone with a prefect record of being a reliable source of information and judgement – and having insider information about myself I know for a fact that I have and will probably again fudge information toward a desired interpretation, MORE: usually unintentionally and not always caught in editing. At the same time dismissal of a source is not the most beneficial option CV30. Just as no one is totally reliable, no one is totally unreliable (albeit examples come to mind that are very very close). Knowing the skills of critical thinking, identifying bias, questioning unexamined assumptions, how to find data, interpretation relative to context, are incumbent on those who receive information, not the transmitter. 5 Things to Know about Dr. Anthony Fauci.
-C. When there is mistrust of information then rumor and a priori (or jumping to predetermined conclusions) begins to fill the information vacuum when there is lack of or contradictory, unaccepted information, and rapidly changing information CV17↓. For example it seems that in social media Covid-19 Death Toll: US Excess Fatalities Hit Estimated 37,100 in Pandemic's Early Days, was interpreted that the government is changing the death toll numbers (not a large leap given a history of inaccuracy and not updating mortality) as the data that was used to update CDC websites, Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease. Social Media Posts Make Baseless Claim on Covid-19 Death Toll =2=. There are three cues that the reports of CDC is lowering the count is rumor CV30: Unable to find other media sources that verify reports before reporting. Can’t locate on the CDC websites, and even so accurate statistics are likely some months off, even without gubergenics. It will be some time before fact checking discovers this malignant rumor and can fact check it, too late to quell it, but interesting to note that the opposite rumor circulated before this, Are CDC Guidelines for Reporting Covid-19 Deaths Artificially Inflating Numbers. This indicates the higher probability that there is wide spread distrust of CDC information, and that this distrust crosses political polarization CV04 (albeit with different spins). Understanding the full context 200419-1 (including bias and spin) rather than a narrow snapshot (possibly =2=), improves the quality and reliability of what a bit of information means. It is not only the validity of information, but the reliability of what the information means in a given context that is necessary for informed decisions making CV29, and taking appropriate actions. U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Rise by 1,435 in 24 Hours Despite Positive Trends.[Cartoon].
-D. MORE: No, the CDC Isn't Fiddling with the Coronavirus Death Numbers, just the definition of what is considered a CV death, but that is always the case and not necessarily subterfuge. Comic: For My Job, I Check Death Tolls from Covid. Why Am I Numb to the Numbers. 200706-CV26A.
CV05. Economics: US for Profit Healthcare Sector Cuts Thousands of Jobs as Pandemic Rages, layoffs, furloughs and cuts to salaries and schedules in response to declines in revenue. Thousands of California Health Care Workers Laid off or Furloughed as Covid-19 Spreads. 200505-CV05.
CV06. Linguistics: The Bubble: A New Medical and Public Health Vocabulary for Covid-19 Times. [Meme =2= =3=].
CV07. Emergence: How a Reclusive ‘Town of Aging Hippies’ Worked to Screen Itself from Coronavirus =2=. Despite a regional stay home order, outsiders were inundating Bolinas, which sits just south of in west Marin County. Yelling matches ensued. Residents posted themselves at the entrance to town.
CV09. Arts, Creativity: Beauty and the Beast - the Corona Version Video. 'Beauty and the Beast' Parody Stresses the Importance of Social Distancing CV02 CV03 CV08.
CV11. Exploitation: Extremists Are Using the Coronavirus to Radicalize and Spread Conspiracies Online =2= =3= =A= CV03A↑ =4= =5= =6= =7= =8=. CV14↓ CV31↓. Have mentioned before that the use of mobs and thugs tends to escalate beyond the control of those who initially incited such behaviors CV32.1↓. The Many Protests of the Coronavirus Pandemic. The Rise of Mob Rule in America 2014. [Meme, Cartoon]. The rise of mobs may create the rise of counter mobs that are just as extreme, First Sack of Lawrence, It’s a Riot. Mob Violence in Antebellum America CV22 CV31.1↓ 210103-23B -C. ADDED: Camouflage Wearing Protesters Pose with Virus They Caught CV02.
CV13. Outliers: What Is Discovery Island, the Abandoned Disney World Attraction Where a Man Was Caught Camping. There are undoubtedly other incidents of squatting and trespassing of areas and buildings that are closed and abandoned during CV. Probably more of this prior to CV than known, but even so this is behavior that is considered unusual and relegated to the fringe. 200726-CV08.
CV14. Uncategorized, Miscellaneous: [Tweet]. This is not an outlier in terms of behavior trends, but I have no idea how to pigeon hole this, much less the intended and unintended consequences. This Is What Madness Looks like: Internet Stunned by Trump’s Overly Dramatic Great and Powerful Plague Tweet =2= [Meme]. This may be a idiosyncratic reference to Exodous and Revelations plagues , which may be a dog whistle for CV11↑.
CV15. Death: Fearing Infection, Some in Indonesia Refuse Nearby Burial of Covid-19 Victims. This is also known as NIMBY =2= =3=. [Photo].
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Man Not Sure He Can Take Another 6 Weeks of Barely Following CDC Guidelines CV02.
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Trump Again Shifts Estimated US Coronavirus Death Toll CV03B↑. Coronavirus Gets a Promising Drug. MAGA World Isn’t Buying It. On the heels of positive early signs for remdesivir, several prominent Trump boosters are downplaying the results and continuing to promote hydroxychloroquine, 200501-CV13. 200517-CV10. 200429-CV03A.
CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Wildfires Critical in Siberia and Russian Far East, up to Ten Times Worse than Last Year. People are flouting Coronavirus lockdown and start fires.
CV23. Polemic, Nocuous: Fears Rise That Trump Will Incite a Global Vaccine Brawl content with allowing the race to develop and distribute the vaccine to devolve into a global contest – and that poorer countries will be left behind in the rush to procure doses. In essence the America First =2= =3= view of world affairs as an atavistic scramble for power will lead to unnecessary suffering and death. Inside the Extraordinary Race to Invent a Coronavirus Vaccine, Profits and Pride at Stake, the Race for a Vaccine Intensifies. Then there is the question of what happens if China develops a CV vaccine first in the cold war arms race. 200902-CV28.1
-A. What Happens If a Coronavirus Vaccine Is Never Developed. It Has Happened Before =2= =3= =4=.
CV24. Norms: Countries Effectively Managing Covid-19 Have Balanced Public, Private and Plural Sectors. Governments essentially protect us, businesses essentially supply us and communities essentially engage us.
CV25. Transportation, Travel: In a Pandemic, We're All Transit Dependent. Now more than ever, public transportation is not just about ridership. Buses, trains, and subways make urban civilization possible. CV32A↓.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Clean in Times of Covid-19: On Hygiene and Pollution. As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads, air pollution and greenhouse emissions decrease, or so news reports say. The satellite images of China in lockdown provided a first striking example. In response to this, one Dutch newspaper even proclaimed ‘a winner’ in the Coronavirus pandemic, namely ‘the environment’. But that is a bit too hasty. Not only are (as environmental experts warn) industries, mining activities and air traffic bound to pick up again as soon as they can. There are also tragic side effects (unintended consequences) that come with the way clean is operationalized in everyday attempts at preventing the nasty virus to spread. For while clean in the sense of virus free is now a widely shared pressing concern, another kind of clean, that of not polluting, is less readily attended to. We stake no claims, if only because sadly we have no one size fits all solution on offer. But amidst all the other tragedies that are unfolding, we care to point out this particular one. One clean is not the other CV06. And, as it is, the vigor invested in caring for hygiene unduly generates all kinds of pollution. 200524-CV26.
CV26.1. Mountain Gorillas in Africa on Lockdown amid Fears of Possible Coronavirus Infections.
CV27. Learning: Class Reunion [Strip]. How Ignorance Makes Us Cocky CV11.
CV28. Logistics: Effects of Coronavirus on the U.S. Food System. ADDED: We Don’t Know How it Will End: Hunger Stalks amid Virus.
CV31. Futuring: A Rise in Deaths from Preventable Diseases must Not Be Part of Covid-19's Legacy. Some Antivaxxers Are Changing Their Minds Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic =2= CV11↑.
CV31.1. Britons Will Suffer Health Problems from Covid-19 for Years, Warn Doctors. Survivors face post traumatic stress and organ damage. POST COLLECTIO: What is now termed Long Haul CV in the USA.
CV32. Anthromes: Defining Geographic Regions with Commuter Data CV25 CV30. This sounds like useful information for contact tracing, predicting likely spread, and where spread is unlikely even when next to an infected area – unfortunately when a community that is somehow protected does become infected the pathogen will transmit very fast in that community. POST COLLECTIO: Soon after rural areas were reporting CV cases, possibly from those fleeing CV areas, and with limited public health infrastructure suffered more per capita that urban areas.
-A. The PDN curator has found something similar for parademic, but not as refined. The populations of some cities very considerably during the day time work hours, and night time resident hours =2= when people commute back to their homes. This is why the counties that surround the San Francisco Bay [Chart =2=] have duplicates of the same public health restrictions. The jurisdictions are different, but the commuting populations are the same, what happens in one could happen to others. If rules were significantly different then there would have to be specific cutting of commuting ties between counties, increasing economic hardship and damage. This commute includes those from Sacramento [Chart] which is 121 kilometers, 75 miles away as the crow flies from the financial district of San Francisco, 90 miles by car or train, an hour to three hours of travel depending on time of day, the means of travel, if there is no breakdowns or accidents, and if the California Highway Patrol does not ticket you. CV25↑.
CV32.1. Coronavirus Is Revitalising the Concept of Community for the 21st Century. With more than a third of the world's population in lockdown, there are widespread fears of social breakdown. However, something quite profound is happening in terms of our relationships with people we don't know. Despite negativity about the societal impacts of CV – from increased levels of loneliness to the limitations of social media – we are seeing some positive and unexpected results, including widespread outpourings of charity, togetherness, and empathy for complete strangers. For example, protests CV11↑ against sheltering may not be just anti social but the emergence of a community and activation of a social identity CV11↑/ voting block 200223-1B.
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