Updated: 220502
CV01. Protection: Global Health Shield, CV04. Politics: Hindering CV Task Force Testimony, CV05. Economics: Funding Health, Strategic National Stockpile, CV08. Entertainment: Olympics, Sports News, CV11. Exploitation: Medical Scams, CV14. Uncategorized, Miscellaneous: Testing Testing, CV15. Death: Dancing Pallbearers, Dance Macabre, Jazz Funerals, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Liberty or Death, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Xenophobia Eugenics and Children, CV19. Technosphere: State of Possible Face Masks, CV19.1. Masks Google Trends, Safe Opening, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: HIV, Chronic Conditions, CV25. Movement: Deporting CV, CV26. Environment, One Health: Anthropogenic Pandemics, CV27. Learning: Pencils, Virtual Graduation, CV28. Logistics: Brexit Farm Labor, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Congressional Testimony, Risking Labor, CV31. Futuring: Post Darkness, CV33. Legal: Arrested Reopening.
PDN Introduction, Glossary
CV01. Protection: A Global Pathogen Shield: The Health Security Step to Never Again. In the name of strategic defense, the world’s nations have amassed enough nuclear weapons to destroy human civilization. We accept the massive financial investment involved. Yet no country has developed the capacity to protect itself against a novel, lethal infectious disease. It’s time to start.
CV04. Politics: The White House Has Barred its Coronavirus Task Force from Testifying to Congress as a House Panel Gears up to Investigate the Government's Pandemic Response, 201223-CV03. Democrats Renew Calls for Fauci, Birx Testimony on US Coronavirus Response. Schumer: Fauci May Testify Before Senate next Week. 200510-CV17. 14 Questions for Fauci, Redfield, and Other Trump Officials Testifying Today on the Coronavirus. CV29↓.
CV05. Economics: End Boom and Bust Funding of Public Health. Congress likely feels that they have done their job by throwing billions of dollars for public health at the current Coronavirus epidemic here in the United States. The only reason a supposedly quick fix is needed is because public health preparedness has been ignored for years at the local, state and federal levels. Note, there are no quick fixes in public health. A Depleted Strategic National Stockpile in a Time of Need.
CV08. Entertainment: No Tokyo Olympics Next Year Unless Covid-19 Can Be Contained, Japan's Abe Says. What Would it Take for Sports Fans to Feel Safe. What It's like to Host ESPN's SportsCenter Without Sports. CV12. 200828-CV08. 200420-CV01. 201223-CV18A.
CV11. Exploitation: Virus Unleashes Wave of Fraud in US amid Fear and Scarcity. 201205-CV11.
CV14. Uncategorized, Miscellaneous: [Meme] Testing, By the Numbers. Have no idea which category to put this in, or if one needs to be created. Could make an argument how it would fit every current category, but that would be a String of CV#s.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: Because it is so large and general, an unused topical CV collection category were the issues (lessons learned) that hindered preparation, prevention, containment, and control. Categories useful for synthesis are: data collection, acceptance and sharing, surveillance and testing, all of which were continual problems during CV. Missteps in creating tests, focus on those displaying symptoms rather than recognizing that CV (like HIV) has a range of symptoms that include: Death among a specific demographic elderly and those with underlying conditions; Asymptomatic or very mild but still spread to others, and; Because it weakens the immune system and readily mutates one can get CV more than once. These all resulted in behaviors that instead of containment, exacerbated spread and hindered the collection of data needed to slow spread.
CV15. Death: Ghana's Dancing Pallbearers: Life after Becoming the Meme of Covid-19 Video. CV07 CV08 CV09 CV10 CV16. Ghana's Dancing Pallbearers Are Being Used to Send a Message Around the World: 'Stay Home or Dance with Us, Dancing Pallbearers Respond to Viral Fame, Deliver Message to Quarantine Breakers CV01. Coffin Dance/ Dancing Pallbearers CV18. The ‘Dancing Pallbearers’ Meme Is a Danse Macabre for the Time of Covid, reinventing a trope as old as the Middle Ages; New Orleans: The History of Jazz Funerals =2= CV22. [Meme].
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Covid-19, the Freedom to Die, and the Necropolitics of the Market CV04 CV15. The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die. Hence, to kill or to allow to live constitute the limits of sovereignty, its fundamental attributes.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Conflict between the story line and what was happening Action Needed to Protect Kids from Covid-19 Racism Spike. Trump Blames Nation’s Susceptibility to Coronavirus Outbreak on Weakness of America’s Race Muddled Gene Pool CV02, The White Nationalist Eugenicist Who Inspired Trump’s Immigration Ban.
-A. MORE: This may not be intentional but allowing children to die is one means of genocide, As Covid-19 Devastates Already Fragile Health Systems, over 6,000 Additional Children under Five Could Die a Day, Without Urgent Action.
CV19. Technosphere: Will be interesting to watch mask technological and social evolution CV16. The current technology can make CV05 CV27 masks that are clear and allow full view of the face, are comfortable; have a better fit and seal that will work with beards; have battery powered air purification for easier breathing; speaking port; and will protect both the wearer and others. Likely there will be different designs and color options. Who and where these will be worn will be a combination of price (which means social status), recent experience with masks and which areas wear masks now (which again will reflect socioeconomics and politics CV04 CV19.1↓. It is possible that there will be face obscuring masks and possible legislation that there be ID chips incorporated into the design. Face Mask Designs for a Surreal Future Where Wearing Masks Is Humanity’s New Norm CV31. [Cartoon].
-A. POST COLLECTIO: Masks did not improve as much as they could have. Besides problems of manufacture, profit margin and shipping, masks became a polarized political issue with refusal to wear masks, introduction of fake masks, and medical scams.
-CV19.1. Google Trends, Face Masks, United States, Past 90 days, All categories, Web Search. Interest by Subregion 1 Hawaii 100, 2 New Hampshire 92, 3 Delaware 87, 4 Rhode Island 86, 5 Massachusetts 85*A↓ ... 47 Wyoming 49, 48 Oklahoma 48, 49 Georgia 48, 50 Alabama 47, 51 Mississippi 45. 200506-CV31.1.
-A. Restore Illinois: A Public Health Approach to Safely Reopen Our State, A Guide to Reopening New York & Building Back Better, Newsom Gives Guidelines to Reopen Dine in Restaurants, Malls, Offices and More in CA CV32↓. Massachusetts Ice Cream Shop Closes One Day after Reopening amid Coronavirus over Patrons Harassing Workers *CV19.1↑. Under a new rule to keep customers and employees safe, the shop’s Facebook page posted that all orders must be placed one hour in advance. However, many patrons didn’t follow the new rules, and appeared to forget their manners after weeks of social distancing. “One of my best workers quit yesterday at the end of her shift”. “The words she was called and the language, you wouldn’t even say in a men’s locker room. To say it to a 17 year old kid, they should be ashamed of themselves”. 200725-CV23.
CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: HIV: God’s Punishment for Sexual Deviants or a Holy Gift Against Corona. In Turkey, HIV has never been considered a “Turkish” issue, but an issue of Eastern European sex workers and Western queers, both perceived as sexual deviants. However, according to recent data, the number of HIV diagnoses in Turkey has increased by 620% since 2007. Nowhere else has the incidence of new HIV cases grown so rapidly, because HIV transmission happens primarily through sexual contact in Turkey. What does this all have to do with the Coronavirus. Since the emergence of the first Covid-19 cases in Turkey, HIV has entered the mainstream discourse in an unforeseen way. Both because people with chronic diseases have been central to the discussions of the Coronavirus, and because antiretroviral medicine used for HIV treatment promised hope to many during the early days of the pandemic. For a moment, HIV was no longer a signifier of sin or deviance but of life and potentiality. 200911-CV21. 200908-CV02.
CV25. Movement: Trump Is Continuing Deportations During the Pandemic. It’s Causing the Coronavirus to Spread =2= =3=. Unable to find national or international laws CV32 that make this illegal. There are questions about Non Refoulement under the Trump Administration. The adherence to conspiracy theory that China/ US sent CV to the other country, possibly by intentionally infected people, implies that the practice of sending the infected over an international border is a bioweapon, but legally there is no statute that makes that a war crime.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Our Environmental Practices Make Pandemics like the Coronavirus More Likely. The story we tell about pandemics casts us as victims of nature. It’s the other way around. The reigning narrative in a lot of people’s minds is that exotic animals [Meme] are to blame for the Coronavirus crisis – that they’re dirty and infested with tons of pathogens that just can’t wait to kill us. What’s wrong with this narrative. There’s a whole movement in global health called One Health. It’s the idea that human health is connected to the health of our animals – pets, livestock, wildlife – and our ecosystems and other societies. All these things are connected, and we have to look at these broader drivers because that’s going to get to the root of the issue. Otherwise, we’re constantly just mopping up problems that are going to keep erupting again and again.
CV27. Learning: Eighth Grader Would Have Cranked Classroom Pencil Sharpener Few More Times If She Knew That Going to Be Last Chance. How U.S. Schools Are Doing Virtual Graduations.
CV28. Logistics: Foretaste of Brexit: Virus Cuts off Much of UK Farm Labor. Britain’s fruit and vegetable farmers have long worried that the exit from the EU would keep out the tens of thousands of Eastern European workers who come every year to pick the country’s produce. Now, the pandemic has brought that once feared future crashing into the present day.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Fauci Warns Reopening Country Too Fast Could Be 'Really Serious' for States, 200329-3.4B. The warning from Anthony Fauci came as President Donald Trump pushes to quickly restart the economy in spite of a mounting death toll and few signs that the pandemic is subsiding. CV04↑. 6 Takeaways from the Senate’s Surreal Virtual Hearing on the U.S. Coronavirus Response. The Senate’s first major hearing on the Covid-19 pandemic began with the sounds of Bernie Sanders muttering. The progressive lawmaker had forgotten to mute himself. The hearing itself made clear that even the Senate isn’t ready to resume business as usual. The four Trump administration witnesses all testified by video after recent exposure to a White House aide with Coronavirus. The chair of the Senate’s health committee did the same after one of his own staffers tested positive. The hearing didn’t provide any highlight reel moments, but it did lend insight into the health officials’ broader views on whether it’s safe to reopen, the ongoing development of Coronavirus drugs and vaccines, the accuracy of the U.S. death toll, and the pandemic’s broader impact on health care. Here are the six biggest takeaways: 1) Even expert senators are overly optimistic about vaccine development.2) Fauci is more willing to buck Trump than other administration officials, possibly an artefact that he does not serve at the pleasure of Trump. 3) If the U.S. death toll is wrong, it’s because deaths are undercounted. 4) Top officials still can’t say exactly how the government will distribute remdesivir. 5) Even the Senate isn’t ready to reopen. 6) Congress is worried about health care beyond just Covid-19 cases. Still no . The Four Men Responsible for America’s Covid-19 Test Disaster =2=. As Trump Urges Reopening, Thousands Getting Sick on the Job [Cartoon].
CV31. Futuring: The Dark Decade Ahead. Trends that were worrisome long before we had heard of the new virus are accelerating to a point at which they are probably irreversible. In the name of health, wealth, and safety I fully expect work as we know it not to return for vast swathes of the population. Instead, it will be replaced by subsidies meant not to provide marginal relief to families but to keep them inside their homes in front of screens, having things sent to their doors and generating meaningless analytics data. The closest thing to a picture of the future I expect to emerge out of this crisis is the one given by Wells in The Time Machine of a civilization split between idle aristocrats totally incurious about the mysterious means by which they receive sustenance and an underclass as resentful and resourceful as it is invisible. I hope that I am wrong about the dark years ahead of us.
CV33. Legal: A Colorado Restaurant Hosted a Crowd on Mother's Day. It's Now Been Closed Down ADDED: Health Officials Close Restaurant That Opened For Mother’s Day. Castle Rock Restaurant That Opened Dining Room Now Shut down for at Least 30 Days. Cabin Fever Leads to Big Reopening Weekend for South Dakota Casinos. CV19A↑.
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