Updated: 20713
CV01. Protection: Flu Shot False False Positive, CV05. Economics: Start Ups, Price System, CV05.1. Germy Money, CV06. Linguistics: Political Masks, CV08. Entertainment: Distant Live Music, CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: Sense of Chaos, Known of Unknown, CV15. Death: Changing DNR, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Sinophobia Mongering, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Michigan Flood Evacuations, CV24. Norms: Time to Sense of Normal, CV25. Movement: Attitudes about Migrants, CV26. Environment, One Health: CV and EPA Environmental Impact, Plastic Reemergence, CV27. Learning: Korean Schools Opening, CV27.1. Changes of Education, CV28. Logistics: Medicine without Sanitation, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Lockdown Strategies, Biocalamity Activities, CV31. Futuring: Global vs National vs State vs Local, CV31.1. Post Fear, CV33. Legal: Work Lawsuits
PDN Introduction, Glossary
CV01. Protection: Flu Shot Doesn’t Cause False Positive Results for Covid-19. The last thing one wants is to have a health condition at the same time as getting CV. POST COLLECTIO: Antivax tropes and memes were being circulated before the CV vaccine. Still unsure if these were Russian Disinformation taken on by exploiters, or simply retrofitting the previous vaccine fear mongering and moral panic to an inevitable vaccine. How Antivax Memes Replicate Through Satire and Irony CV02. History Does Repeat: Pandemic Vaccine Uproar Is Nothing New CV22 and yet we are still unprepared for it.
CV05. Economics: The Start up Economy Is Fundamentally Broken. The Virus Will Make it Worse. Money torching start ups have taken root all over the economy. These companies generally treat both their suppliers and their workers like crap, but what is less noticed is that their "business model" is undermining one of the basic premises of capitalism – the price system =2=. The process may only accelerate thanks to the pandemic.
CV05.1. Filthy Lucre: Paper Money Shunned for Fear of Virus Spread, Cash, Long a Refuge in Uncertain Times, Now under Suspicion. Coins Carry Viruses Better than Paper Money, Experts Say as China Begins Sterilizing Cash, Paper Money Carries Thousands of Types of Bacteria, Credit Cards Carry More Types of Bacteria than Coins, Cash. Germ Ridden Cash May Boost Use of Contactless Payments, No, Coronavirus Is Not a Good Argument for Quitting Cash.
-A. MORE: You Don’t Need to Worry About Spreading the Coronavirus with Cash. The Use of Money to Maintain Connection (and Toilet Paper) the use of money to maintain connection is more than to maintain “an economy”, we might be able to discern a new ethics of exchange.
CV06. Linguistics: Political terms for Mask [Strip].
CV08. Entertainment: Socially Distant Concerts Signal a Reopening for Live Music CV10.
CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: How Chaos Theory Helps Explain the Weirdness of the Covid-19 Pandemic. As we’ve learned, it takes just one person infected with Covid-19 to unleash chaos. Small things could have changed outcomes. Little shifts can have really disproportionately sized impacts in a pandemic. Systems that operate like this are called chaos. Knowing that this pandemic is chaotic is one of the keys to understanding why the future is uncertain. But it can also help us appreciate why this uncertainty need not be so debilitating. Chaos doesn’t necessarily mean unknown. The conditions that make an outbreak worse and the conditions that make it better are known. Despite the current slant of news parademic behaviors are the social conditions that make an outbreak worse or better 200524-1C. MORE: Jan 2022 How the Pandemic Led to Disarray – and Discovery.
-A. America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further =2=. Coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.
CV15. Death: A Cancer Patient Reconsiders Her End of Life Wishes, as Covid-19 Brings Mortality into Sharper Focus. Since she was diagnosed, 3½ years ago, her advanced lung cancer 210103-CV25 had morphed from something that could kill her at any moment to something she could live with for a while. She’d benefitted from newer and newer therapies. Now, at 57, she’d survived long enough to wonder what would happen if she got Covid-19. For many in her position, the question induced a kind of whiplash. They’d heard the pandemic could cause shortages of life sustaining drugs and machines. They’d read how hospitals might prioritize lives in such a situation, and late stage cancer would probably move you down the list. In other words, the very medical centers that had kept these patients alive longer than initially expected would, in extremis, parcel out care based on how long someone was expected to survive.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: As an Asian American Doctor, I'm on the Front Lines of Two Wars, I'm not racist, I just don't want to get the virus, one patient told me. In Boston and Elsewhere, Asian-American Doctors and Nurses Are Fighting Racism and the Coronavirus, why are you Chinese people killing everyone. CV25↓. Ohio Officials Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis Highlighted by Covid-19. Trump Blames China for Mass Worldwide Killing, Trump Repeatedly Praised China's Response to Coronavirus in February.
CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: 2 Michigan Dams Breached, Thousands Evacuated amid Devastating Flooding. Given Michigan resistance to shelter in place evacuation centers may be problematic 200528-CV21, 200416-CV21B. 210103-CV23C -E. The Coronavirus plus a Hurricane Could Be a Recipe for Disaster. 200414-CV26A.
CV24. Norms: Most Americans Say Returning to 'Normal' Will Take at Least Six Months or longer for their daily life to return to a sense of normal. CV31.1↓.
CV25. Movement: Covid-19: Shifting Attitudes to Migration. The foreign born staff among essential workers in the health and social care sectors, the report shows some 18.2% of essential health staff and 15.7% of essential social work and residential care are from overseas. It is not clear that the pandemic fundamentally changes what we know about the economic consequences of migration.... It may thus be that the political impacts of the crisis – how it affects attitudes towards migrant workers and their contributions to society and the economy – will in the long run be more important than any change to policymakers' understanding of how the crisis affects the economics of migration. CV18↑. This is specific for Britain and Brexit but may be analogous to other countries.
CV26. Environment, One Health: What Is Covid-19’s Impact on the Environment. The EPA announced mid March that they are going to no longer require companies to monitor and report any illegal emissions events at facilities. Power plants are still generating pollution, because we’re all still at home and actually using more electricity. In the short term we see a decrease in emissions, but in the long run it puts off our transition to a low carbon economy. The virus has also caused a higher production of waste headed to landfills. Other issues have surfaced as well, like the big increase in plastic bag usage*A.. Dairy farmers are being told that they have to go dump their milk. A lot of the food is going bad on the plants before it can even get picked. [Quote]. MORE: [Cartoon] Jun 2022 The Supreme Court Rules the EPA Can't Set CO2 Limits for Existing Power Plants, and yet it is known that air pollution aggravates respiratory diseases like CV.
-*A. 200503-CV26. Plastic Waste Is Booming from the Coronavirus Pandemic. Plastic Bags Were Finally Being Banned. Then Came the Pandemic, single use plastics are all over the front lines of the Covid-19 response. 200629-CV16.
CV27. Learning: South Korean High School Seniors Return to School. In a reminder that getting back to normalcy won’t be easy, students in some schools near Seoul were asked to return home in the morning after two students were found to have contracted the Coronavirus.
CV27.1. The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Creating 2 Major Problems in Education, but There Aren't as Many Downsides as Upsides. The pandemic will have a long lasting impact. The positives: Education will see more tutoring, a flipped classroom, and more adaptive learning opportunities in the future. The negatives: The pandemic is exaggerating the socioeconomic divide and putting all students at risk of learning loss. CV18.
-A. MORE: Jun 2022 The Future of Online Education in the Wake of Covid-19, 5 Reasons Why Online Learning is the Future of Education in 2022 CV31.
CV28. Logistics: The Hospitals Where Doctors Can't Wash Their Hands. Hand washing is the first line of defense against Covid-19 and many other diseases. Yet 1 in 4 health care centers around the world has no hand-washing facilities, and in the lowest income countries, almost half have no clean water. A lack of facilities means over 2 billion people are forced to seek care in a place where there is no clean water and 1.5 billion people visit health care facilities with no sanitation services at all.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Go Suppress Yourself. In December 2019, reports emerged of a pneumonia of unknown origin in the city of Wuhan, China. A week into 2020, a novel pathogen was identified – Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). By the middle of March, a pandemic was announced by the only authority authorized, the WHO.
-A. There are many different narratives and analyses that can proceed from this starting point. Our analysis concerns one specific question: How did a set of policies, which include the closure of all educational institutions, the closure of “non essential” endeavors, not only businesses but all kinds of work and research, including some clinical trials and other medical services, as well as the closure of borders, became the self-evident and obligatory response to the pandemic in the vast majority of countries worldwide, since early March 2020. How did broad blanket closures and the cessation of movement of people and things, “social distancing” and “lockdown” measures, become the necessary solution to this pandemic.
-B. Four strategies: (A) Containment at the level of individuals, through testing, case isolation and contact tracing. (B) Containment to a specific territory within a country, through quarantine. (C) Suppression of transmission of the virus, within a given territory, principally through rapid lockdown =2=. (D) Mitigation of the transmission of the virus, aims to protect vulnerable groups from spread of the virus through the population.
-C. This suggests alternatives to the Disaster Management Phases (Plan, Prevent, Respond, (Mitigate), Recover 200503-1 200730-CV03A, and the Containment and Control which was borrowed from Fire Fighting. A better model is a failing cascade one which correlates with parademic [Chart]. MORE: Disaster Management Models Need Adjusting: A Case Study in South Africa Explains Why. 200426-1.
-1) Continuous Research (to include field research), Analysis and Planning (RAP, Continuous would be apt to include in the acronym from some perspectives CV04 CV05 CV18, i.e.), continual funding of the whole system;
-2) Prevention including treatment, prophylactic, public health and education, preparation, manufacture, rotating surge stocks, environmental health and regulation, training, support to remote and foreign populations and disease reservoirs, vector control, lab support, medical access, surveillance (i.e. Containment); If Prevention fails then;
-3) Isolation of low intensity incidents: With monitoring, novel disease analysis, informed decisions making, supporting law to allow that level of social protection and legal protection and patient advocates to prevent and/or correct abuse of that power, means to safely transport and prevent spread, PPE, isolation facilities with surge capacity. If Isolation fails or it’s too late, then;
-4) Containment of what will likely be multiple areas of low to mid level events: Medical screening (testing), quarantine, supply and distribution to the area of containment, bringing in medical resources and expanding facilities, morgues and temporary internment, security of personnel, physical security, investigation of exploitation, mobile non medical resources, employment, preparation and prevention for the next wave, social distancing, travel restrictions, conflict between populations. Most likely mitigation and salvage will be the main activities until 1) and 2) are effective. Then actions can downgrade to 3) isolation. At this point it is likely the whole of society is involved and recover. Recovery meaning returning to the previous normal conditions, are not only foolish as that just means the same conditions that spawned the pandemic, but improbable as society has change much. If this fails;
-5) Global Biocalamity (high intensity accelerated cascading event) is likely with: Depopulations, extinctions, biodiversity loss, forced migrations. Given the bradyoccult of biocalamities these are likely already in progress, but most have not accelerated sufficiently to human perception and motivate behavior. This will mean economic hardships, famine;
-6) Post Pandemic/ Biocalamity. Depending on the level of the event population rebounds or continues deceleration toward extinction. Changes in government, economics, law, public health. In very severe biosphere destruction, new life forms will evolve to fill the abandoned or newly created environmental niches and habitats.
CV31. Futuring: Reopening Tension Pits State, Local Officials Against Each Other in Sign of What’s to Come. A growing number of local officials are writing their own reopening playbooks, defying state leaders in disputes that foretell months of regional skirmishes, and continued CV. GOP Fronts Pro Trump Doctors to Prescribe Rapid Reopening, some of the names may be known medical scammers, antivax or subscribe to theories like eugenics. States Accused of Fudging or Bungling Covid-19 Testing Data. New Jersey, Other States, Work to Fight Virus Misinformation. Trump Says Us Topping World Covid-19 Cases Is 'Badge of Honour' =2= =3= 200614-CV17. [Cartoon =2= CV06].
-A. ADDED: Remindful of the previous climate science panel that was designed to disprove climate change conclusions. These Are the Fake Experts Pushing Pseudoscience and Conspiracy Theories about the Coronavirus Pandemic. Fast Acting Countries Cut Their Coronavirus Death Rates While US Delays Cost Thousands of Lives.
CV31.1. How to Fight Fear and Anxiety When Quarantine Ends. All States Have Now Partially Reopened, Leaving Americans to Weigh Risks of Venturing Out. CV24↑.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: This pattern continued in 2022. Previously when a disease was burning out toward zero cases one could safely reopen. However, CV tends to mutate, and every time there was a surge in cases there were more opportunities to mutate. When the numbers went down, authorities would reopen and cancel protective measures, allowing the mutation to find hosts and spread again. CV has become a game of wack the mole =2= =3= without learning that the repetition of the same behavior is getting the same result.
CV33. Legal: As America Reopens, Prepare for a Flood of Coronavirus Workplace Lawsuits CV31.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: Though the CV pandemic has not ended, there are lawsuits but different than anticipated. Attacks on medical boards for delicensing doctors who spread misinformation. Antivax becomes a religion and 1st amendment reason to sue for not vaccinating. Attempting the violent overthrow of government is not cause for impeachment. The federal government cannot protect the health of citizens.
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