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, 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.
CV01. Protection: CDC: Americans Desperate to Kill Coronavirus Are Dangerously Mixing Cleaners, Bleaching Food.
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 ViacomCBS Stations Went Dark. The day the humor died, it will come back but humor is another way to express anger. This is a full blown parademic, beyond human behavior in the context of a biocalamity, becoming a human calamity in the context of a bio one. Given the global response the anti racist protests and anti protest response 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
-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.
-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 them maybe it is the same 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, with other can’t impede information that causes harm. China Defends its Coronavirus Response in New Report. ADDED China Hails its Covid-19 Triumphs, and Glosses over its Mistakes.
CV06. Linguistics: What Are the Gating Criteria. This term did not gain traction, instead phased reopening was used, but not always following criteria* usually resulting in having to close (full lockdown so far avoided as a term or practice).
-*A. Gating Criteria: Satisfy Before Proceeding to Phased Comeback* 1) Symptoms: Downward trajectory (undefined) of influenza like illnesses (ILI) reported (don’t report then criteria met) within a 14 day period (still uncertain this is incubation, 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 only 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.
-*B. There were multiple phases systems, a 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 is still accelerating in the US and other countries around the world. Just 6 States Meet These Basic Criteria to Reopen and Stay Safe. [Meme].
CV12. Personal, Relationships: Yesterday visited our local book store that is having to close down, not because of lack of sales, but 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.
-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 you would think. The jumping on the bed was delightful because grandson was delighted. 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 of my son is going to be really pissed.
CV13. Outliers: Biocalamity and Parademic both tend to blur meaning. Same happens with outliers which at one time implied rare and small, and now can be constant and on large scales.
CV15. Death: Coronavirus Death Rates Over Time.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: 10 Ways Covid-19 Will Affect Social Security. By the headline one would think this is economic CV05, and there are some economic points. 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 social change will be more significant but at this time the nature of the changes are unpredictable CV17.
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: There are a few assumptions that I have made in Parademic that were untested, but until not there was no opportunity to test as a hypothesis. 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. That has consistently happened.
-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 of 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.
-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.
CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: California Was Set to Spend over $1 Billion to Prevent Wildfires. Then Came Covid-19.
CV25. Movement: The Coronavirus Has Reinvented What People Want When They Travel – and It’s Bringing 2 Classic Americana Staples Back into Style.
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 (what do you think preschool and kindergarten are for). 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. School 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.
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