Updated: 230204
CV01. Protection: Cocktail Cleaners, Bleaching Food, CV02. Humor: The Laughter Died, CV01.1. Current Humor Topics, CV03. Information: Censorship Consequences, China, CV06. Linguistics: Gating, Reopen Criteria and Phases, Financial Relief Fraud, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Remodeling, Stuck in a Hotel, Closing Book Store, CV13. Outliers: Blurred Outside the Lines, CV15. Death: More Data, More Understanding, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Social Security, CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Tested Assumptions, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: No Money for Fire Abatement, CV25. Movement: RV's, Motels, CV26. Environment, One Health: Anti Minorities, CV27. Learning: On Line Experiment
PDN Introduction, Glossary
CV01. Protection: CDC: Americans Desperate to Kill Coronavirus Are Dangerously Mixing Cleaners, Bleaching Food. 200610-CV23B.
CV02. Humor: After Days of Unrest, America Needs Moral Leadership. Instead, We Have Donald Trump Video. Remember when we were all afraid of our groceries, Stephen Colbert. TV Changed Last Night: Stephen Colbert Got Somber and Viacom CBS Stations Went Dark. The day the humor died. It will come back and keep in mind that humor is another way to express anger. This is a full blown parademic, going beyond human behavior in the context of a biocalamity to becoming a human calamity in the context of a bio one. Given the global response the anti racist protests and anti protest responses may be both a proxy for problems (not just CV) that people can do nothing about, and an explosive venting of I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take this Any More. 200925-CV15B.
-A. MORE: Dec 2022 The Very Serious Science of Humor, how studying what tickles our funny bone can help explain who we are.
-CV01.1. Updated May 8, 2020, Escape Our Current Hell with These (Good) Coronavirus Jokes. The central premise of this article sounds absurd. What could possibly be funny about a global pandemic that has altered the very fabric of our existence, in one fell swoop shutting down everything we hold dear, from sports to movies to music to the very notion of human interaction. How could anyone possibly write jokes at a time like this. But in times of crisis, when we are frightened and don’t know what the hell is going on, we’ve historically turned to comedy. Comedy, as frivolous and inessential as it may seem, is humanity’s free coping mechanism, a medium that both distracts us from the horrors of the world while allowing us to get our best and worst thoughts out of our heads and off of our chests.
-A. That being said, a lot of the comedy produced in response to the Coronavirus has been unfunny, hack, and sometimes legitimately racist. Furthermore, as time passes and the news changes on a minute by minute basis, jokes that were funny five days ago have turned sour. Sure, the first tweet about what Shakespeare wrote during quarantine was cute, but by its 789th iteration, the bit had worn thin. Jokes about scoring cheap flights to Mexico on a “Coronavirus discount”. Not so funny in light of how many people refuse to take social distancing seriously. A TikTok Coronavirus challenge that involves licking a toilet seat, that’s legitimately horrifying under any circumstance. MORE: Argentine TV Reports William Shakespeare Died after Covid Vaccine erring by about 400 years, confusing the famous bard with a British man with the same name who died last week of an illness unrelated to the shot.
-B. The jokes that have somehow been able to remain funny in this crazy, unprecedented time are often not really about the virus itself, but rather how Coronavirus has affected our relationship to something else, like health care, our apartments, or each other. As people are forced to turn to the internet for entertainment and comedians are trapped indoors with no way of performing live, the online jokes will keep flowing, for better or worse. Hopefully, at least one joke on this list will make you chuckle despite, you know, literally everything that’s happening all over the world. Here are the best jokes (so far) inspired by the Coronavirus (these could be categories for PDN if the interest was to be descriptive, but then maybe it will be the same topical list. Stimulus Checks and the Economy. Gossip Girl. Time. The Video. Apartments. Family/ Relationships. On Sports/ Games. Comedy. On Front Facing Videos. Entertainment/ Culture. Music. Singing from Windows. Health. Work/ School.
CV03. Information: Coronavirus Pandemic Shows Global Consequences of China’s Local Censorship Rules. China’s heavily regulated social media platforms have been removing and banning references to the Covid-19 pandemic. Censorship trackers say impeding the flow of information may have hampered the global response. Interesting contrast. Some countries impeding information that could help, while others can’t impede information (the US) that causes harm. China Defends its Coronavirus Response in New Report. ADDED: China Hails its Covid-19 Triumphs, and Glosses over its Mistakes. 201219-CV03.
CV06. Linguistics: What Are the Gating Criteria. The term “gating” did not gain traction, instead reopening came into common use, but not always following the original criteria*A usually resulting in having to close, shelter in place. Full lockdown so far has been avoided as a term or practice). POST COLLECTIO: “Lockdown” became the common term, but with a different meaning for political purposes.
-*A. Gating Criteria: Satisfy Before Proceeding to Phased Comeback* 1) Symptoms: Downward trajectory (undefined) of influenza like illnesses (ILI) reported (but if one doesn’t report then the criteria is met) within a 14 day period (still uncertain this is incubation and/or infectious period), and Downward trajectory of Covid like syndromic cases reported within a 14 day period. 2) Cases: Downward trajectory of documented (don’t document and one meets criteria) cases within a 14 day period, or Downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of total tests within a 14 day period (flat or increasing volume of tests). 3) Hospitals: Treat all patients without crisis care, and Robust testing program in place for at risk healthcare workers, including emerging antibody testing. In addition to being an unenforced suggestion, there is no mention of sufficient and effective PPE and testing, community compliance with social distancing practices, effective medical surveillance, and availability of health care. Basically making cookie cutter policies about containment and control of a disease before it is understood. 200426-1.
-1) POST COLLECTIO: Dec 2022 This is a great example of making policies without defining terms, setting up oversight, leaving large loop holes, and not applying what was known and later determined about a pathogen. | Same was seen with CV financial relief that left several ways to commit fraud CV05 CV11. ‘Biggest Fraud in a Generation’: The Looting of the Covid Relief Plan Known as PPP that were structured in ways that were "an invitation" to fraudsters. Parademic neglected to collect on the numerous frauds that were discovered after the 2020 election. Descriptions of those who committed fraud tended to follow stereotypes of Trump supporters: ultra conservative, fundamental Christians, business and profit taking priority over responsibility to community, and largely did not need more money CV17A↓.
-*B. There were multiple pandemic phase systems for opening, closing, sheltering in place, masking. This is the continued incoherence of US and Global public health. [Chart =2= =3= =4= =5=]. Not having a unity of effort for controlling the pandemic is unwise, especially with CV still accelerating in the US and other countries around the world. Just 6 States Meet These Basic Criteria to Reopen and Stay Safe. [Meme]. POST COLLECTIO: One of the problems we ran into as Pandemic Planners in 2010 were the several different models for the phases of a pandemic. 200426-1.
CV12. Personal, Relationships: Yesterday visited our local book store that is having to close down, not because of lack of sales, but because the owner is at major risk for CV and there is no one who can take the store over competently. Got a good deal on some books, but still a sad occasion. POST COLLECTIO: Dec 2022 The book store is still open. The new competent person is my wife who has become a well known figure in our small community. Best yet I get a 10% discount or can borrow used books.
-A. My son sent a short video of my grandson jumping on a bed at their hotel. They are in a hotel not because of CV specifically, but they decided this would be a good time to remodel with bathroom at their apartment. Hint, remodeling during a pandemic is not as good of an idea as one would think. The jumping on the bed was delightful because my grandson was having a wonderful time. At home he is not permitted to jump on the bed. I suspect my daughter in law was not there at the time as grandson got close to the edge and almost fell off (hence why jumping on the bed is not allowed). I’m pretty sure daughter in law does not read this blog. Hopefully that is true or my son is going to be really upset with me.
CV13. Outliers: Biocalamity and Parademic both tend to blur meaning and categories. Same happens with outliers which at one time implied rare and small, but over time can become a new constant (norm) and be the start of larger emergent behaviors.
CV15. Death: Coronavirus Death Rates Over Time.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: Dec 2022. I suspect that we will never have an accurate accounting. Not all jurisdictions reported and kept records, or manipulated numbers and changed criteria. One trick was to withhold numbers and then report them when restrictions were enforced to make it appear social distancing measures were ineffective. China is likely to have done the same thing but for the opposite reason during its Zero Covid policy – 201230-221B to be posted later. When the policy was clearly failing to contain and control, and resulting protests of the policy was ended, definition of CV related death was changed, and reports of illness were either accurate or inflated. In any case was a convenient way to punish those who resisted the policy, but that can’t be admitted to so other officials are trying to keep counts down. With No Exit Strategy from ‘Zero Covid’ Policy, China Could Face Tsunami in Cases. China’s New Covid Approach Is to ‘Let it Rip,’ Analyst Says.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: 10 Ways Covid-19 Will Affect Social Security CV31. By the headline one would think this is only economic CV05, the list however translates into consequences and social change: 1. A notable reduction to payroll tax collection. 2. Less net interest income generated from the program's asset reserves. 3. A decline in taxation of benefits revenue. 4. A reduced COLA, or perhaps no COLA at all. 5. Lower initial benefits. 6. Low inflation reduces wage and COLA growth over the long run. 7. A higher mortality rate. 8. Reduced net legal immigration. 9. Record low birth rates persist. 10. The Trust Fund depletion date moves forward. The Reason Covid-19 Might Destroy 22% of Workers' Retirement, again seems economic, but the cascade into other parts of the social systems will be more significant. At this time the nature of the changes are unpredictable CV17. 200802-CV16.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: As of Feb 2023 some of the changes are occurring, while others are not or the antipode are manifesting.
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: There are a few assumptions that I have made in Parademic that were untested. Until now there was no opportunity to test as a hypothesis (Issawi’s Law). One of these was that in the initial acceleration of a biocalamity, and the resulting parademic, that information would be confused, damaged, rapidly changing, out of sequence, have misinformation from competing narratives CV18, and possibly there would be break down of communication channels.
1) That has consistently happened during CV, POST COLLECTIO though this may be an anomaly CV13 during Post Truth (a big assumption there was ever a period of Truth) as there were motives, means and opportunities to take advantage of the chaotic information environment to encourage betrumping, as opposed to the same factors promoting sharing information that was accurate.
-A. Another assumption or hypothesis is that over time information would self organize and the situation would settle into patterns and information would become less chaotic. That is clearly wrong. On the clinical side of the pandemic information is becoming more coherent and useable, with at least some cooperation. On the social side the parademic information is even more chaotic than at the beginning, with narratives CV18 going to suicidal levels of competition. PDN categories of information still remain so general that they remain nice to know, but are not useable for policy and decisions. Actions are still opinions, hopeful guesses, delusions, and many are likely exploitive CV11 for personal gain at the cost of everyone else.
1) POST COLLECTIO: Dec 2022 For CV at least this seems to apply, but that is probably due more to the social climate CV06 PC↑, than a direct response to the pandemic conditions.
-B. This continued chaos is a general indicator that things are worse then we know, and the longer problems are not known and addressed, the worse they will get. This is not just limited to CV, but economic, political, stability of society, and more – but the nature of how much and what will be worse is outside current imagination. It is impossible to speculate about never experienced possibilities when information is uncertain, more likely to be conspiracy theory than reasonable informed conjecture. At this time I can state that magical thinking and reckless and behaviors will become more prevalent. However, because of the aggravated information chaos it is not as easy to identify these as one would assume, especially because of interests that will interfere with investigations.
1) POST COLLECTIO: Dec 2022 This happened after the 2020 and 2022 elections, including threats by the GOP to investigate =2= if they gained majority in both the house and senate. Feb 2023 The extremist Republicans only took the house, and that barely, but have kept the promise of using legal authority to do connived investigations.
CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: California Was Set to Spend over $1 Billion to Prevent Wildfires. Then Came Covid-19.
-A. MORE: Oct 2022 Timber Industry and Firefighters on Opposite Sides of California Ballot Fight.
CV25. Movement: The Coronavirus Has Reinvented What People Want When They Travel – and It’s Bringing 2 Classic Americana Staples Back into Style. MORE: Not Flying this Summer. Many Americans Are Hitting the Road – in RVs. Nov 2022 Covid-19 Reshaped the Work and Mobility Landscape in U.S. Cities CV32.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Trump's Latest Environmental Rollback Threatens Minority Communities. Communities of Color Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Anti Environmental Agenda.
CV27. Learning: There still has not been a useful article about on line education during CV. Some tout its success, others its failures, both without evidence beyond anecdote. Likely the On Line education was a failure. Besides connectivity issues, students need to be trained on a learning system (this is what preschool and kindergarten are for). The predictable outcome would be this would fail when there was next to no previous preparation for either instructors or students, and the infrastructure to support such a system is still being built. Schools have come up with emergent CV07 solutions to continue education, but in any case it will be years before that data is analyzed to identify best practices. 200630-CV27. POST COLLECTIO: Dec 2022 One of the planned synthesis articles will be about non classroom education.
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