CV Pandemic Daily Notes 200626

CV01. Protection: Pandemic Playbook, CV01.1. Human Factors in Playbook, CV02. Humor: Reopening the Silver Screen, CV03. Information: NIGO, Bending to Authority, CV04. Politics: Cancel Health Insurance During Pandemic, CV05. Economics: Savings, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Reservation Forest Off Limits, Arizona Status, Navajo, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Indonesia, Malay, Fashion Masks, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Sequella Support Group, CV19. Technosphere: Internet Mask, CV22. Longue Duree: Vintage Pubs, Breweries, CV27. Learning: Alabama Schools, CV28. Logistics: Useless Testing Kits, CV28.1. Not Enough Vials, CV32. Anthromes: Creating More Space, CV33. Legal: ICE Chile Care

PDN Introduction.

CV01. Protection: She Helped Write the White House Pandemic Playbook ^CV01.1. Here’s What Keeps Her up at Night and Her Advice for Trump. We haven’t gotten out of the first wave and I’m worried that we will continue to see a high number of cases moving into the fall, when people will start spending more time indoors and we’ll see more transmission. We’ll see a larger increase and ... we won’t have the contact tracing in place, the testing capacity in place or the isolation capability in place to manage that additional caseload. It doesn’t appear that [the federal government has] come up with a unified national plan for personal protective equipment and supplies, which could place us and the rest of the world right back in the position that we were in March.

            -A. if you had Trump’s ear right now, what advice would you give him. I would emphasize that unlike other natural disasters that we face, like hurricanes, for example, the pandemic is affecting all 50 states and the federal government has to lead a response. There will be no way to decrease our cases and beat the pandemic in the U.S. unless we have a concerted effort and a national plan for testing and contact tracing. It’s really important for the U.S. to be at the table with the World Health Organization and with our global partners to fight this disease. We can’t do it alone and we’re not going to beat Covid-19 here until we beat it everywhere. POST COLLECTIO: There were claims by the Trump administration that there was no playbook for pandemics, and conspiracy theory of a plandemic. <CONT 200329-200112-2¶>1. Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook, #Document Playbook for Early Response to High Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents.

            -B‡. U.S. Coronavirus Cases Reach Biggest Single Day Increase of Pandemic. A Quick Reopening, a Surge in Infections, and a U.S. Recovery at Risk. U.S. Watchdog Finds Flaws in Government Pandemic Response, Chews out Transport Department, SBA, Trump Admin Lacks Solid Plan to Reopen Federal Offices, GAO Says, again there were plans, most written with a 9/11 like event in mind, to include biological weapons. During the 2005-09 period most included continuing operation and reopening from a pandemic. Some of these have such ans the Biological Incident Annexes have been updated since then but apparently still ignored.

            CV01.1. Playbook for Early Response to Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents, 200608-CV07. This plan would have been an adequate start place for CV at the Federal executive level, especially for Continuity of Government and Global Health if those has been severely disrupted and lost capabilities by the CV Pandemic. However, from the parademic biased perspective it is inadequate for addressing human factors*^A – data collection, coordination, contact tracing, resistence to protective measures, unequal medical access, unemployment, mass casualties/ fatalities, services for those quarantined, crisis communications, medical supply and manufacture, concurrent cyber attacks and disinformation, panic, civil rights of those who were overseas, exploitation. This is a bit surprising as this is clearly based on the experience with the 2014Ebola, but lessons learned from the West Africa hotzone, and the domestic ebolaphobia, fear mongering and exploitation were not included.

            -*A. The play book does address some of the parademic issues that have arisen during CV, albeit in very general terms as is appropriate for the executive level. The executive level is normally supported by subject matter experts and real time information and analysis. The playbook – its not a plan, but as part of an exercise to support plans – include international and domestic situations and coordination, security, political, stability, infrastructure impacts, finance, personnel, global health collaboration, assumptions, travel. Hopefully what has been learned will be included in a future Rubric for Decision Making.

CV02. Humor: AMC Unveils Covid-19 Guidelines Requiring All Movie Characters to Wear Masks =2= ^CV08. 200620-CV08.

            -A. MORE: Los Angeles Delays Movie Theater Reopenings after Rise in Coronavirus Cases. Entertainment Industry Seeks Legislative Relief from Covid-19 Impact.

CV03. Information: Data Is Key to Fighting the Coronavirus. Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Find. If you wanted to know how many tests for novel coronavirus were administered across the United States yesterday, there would be no single public government source you could check for that information. As Virus Grows, Governors Rely on Misleading Hospital Data. NIGO, Nothing In, Garbage Out.

            -A. In places like South Korea and Taiwan, the government compiles and updates a daily data dashboard that the general population can easily access. But in the U.S., the federal government has increasingly placed the burden on states to test possible cases and keep tabs on potential outbreaks, with little overarching guidance. Without that, public health officials throughout the country have engineered dozens of different ways to count cases, making it harder to know when a community is at risk.

            -B. In the aggregate, these differences in data can amount to apples and oranges comparisons. They can misrepresent our overall picture of the virus, and interfere with reopening plans and appropriate health interventions, if cases are missed or misrepresented.

            -C. Battling a pandemic with data gaps is like trying to put together a puzzle when the pieces don’t quite fit or are missing altogether. As states reopen and Americans are still struggling to figure out how they can safely return to work, school and other parts of their lives, being able to interpret and understand the numbers that do exist has become even more important – and even more complicated.

            -D. What is more concerning is not that the US became authoritarian like in becoming secretive and misleading with information, but at how quickly it happened. The Milgram Shock Experiment is another example. However, more chilling was the Stanford Prison Experiment =2=. This prison one turned out to be fraudulent research, but being a fake =2= is either still taught as real or being dismissed as having no value. It in fact demonstrates the same principle – and the phenomena has been demonstrated in natural experiments – of acceding to authority, and worse willingly participating in what was clearly unethical staging for an a priori conclusion.

CV04. Politics: As COVID Cases Rise, White House Seeks to Scrap Obamacare. Q&A: Overturning Obamacare During a Pandemic. Despite Pandemic, Trump Administration Urges End to ACA. The Entire ACA Thus Must Fall, Trump's DOJ Demands at US Supreme Court. 201203-CV05.

            -A. ADDED: Trump Renews Vow on Preexisting Conditions after Urging Court to Overturn ObamaCare.         

            -B. MORE: Overturning the ACA Will Make Covid-19 Much Worse. [Cartoon =2=]. Dec 2022 ‘An Arm and a Leg’: He Made a Video about Health Insurance Terminology That Went Viral.  201203-CV05.

CV05. Economics: The Dirty Little Secret of the Pandemic: Some People Are Saving a Fortune. Despite the unprecedented shedding of American jobs, real disposable personal income has been on the rise. Wallets Are Already on Lockdown: People Pare Spending as Sunbelt Cases Surge.

CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: This Chart Shows the Link Between Restaurant Spending and New Cases of Coronavirus.

            CV08.1. Hard Hit Tribe Takes Strict Steps as Virus Surges in Arizona. People in the deserts of Arizona flee to the White Mountains when the triple digit heat is too much to bear, cooling off in the forest a few hours away. That worries a Native American tribe that calls the area home, as coronavirus infections and temperatures have both spiked in one of the hardest hit states.

            -A. The White Mountain Apache Tribe is taking some of the most drastic actions in Arizona*^B to protect its 13,500 residents, more than one eighth of whom have already tested positive for COVID-19. It’s taking cues from severe measures imposed by other tribes nationwide, including the Navajo Nation*^C, which has curtailed an outbreak that once made it a national hot spot ^CV01.

            -*B. Arizona's Main Covid Lab Running Behind as Demand for Tests Soars to Twice Capacity. Most Arizona TV News Reports on the Lead up to Trump's Visit Failed to Mention the State's Recent Spike in Coronavirus Cases. How Arizona Lost Control of the Epidemic. 200622-CV11. ADDED Why Is the Governor Scapegoating Latinos for the Covid-19 Crisis. ADDED Arizona's Covid-19 Crisis Follows Misleading Data Use and Emphasis on Rapid Reopening.

            -*C. Facing Arizona Surge, Navajos Reimpose Virus Curfew, Navajo Nation: the People Battling America's Worst Coronavirus Outbreak, Navajo Nation Reports 43 New Coronavirus Cases and 1 Death. 200616-CV32A.

CV09. Arts, Creativity: Fashion Masks a Hit as Indonesians, Malaysians Seek Style in Safety. With no sign of the global coronavirus threat easing anytime soon, protective masks are fast becoming fashion accessories for Indonesians and Malaysians keen to add some style and humour to healthwear essentials.

CV12. Personal, Relationships: Covid-19 Long Haulers Find a Community Online. A Slack group has become a lifeline for patients whose symptoms have been lingering for months.

CV19. Technosphere: Japanese Startup Creates 'Connected' Face Mask for Coronavirus New Normal.

CV22. Longue Duree: Coronavirus Is Taking English Pubs Back in Time. The announcement by Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, that pubs in England will be allowed to resume trading from July 4 was greeted with rousing cheers from some. But having a pint in the pandemic era will be slightly different. While two metre social distancing rules are being relaxed to one metre to ensure economic viability for publicans, to maintain the safety of customers and staff, pubs will where practical be restricted to “table service”.

            -A. Standing at the bar is one of the most cherished rituals of the British pub experience – and many people are worried that the new rules could be the beginning of the end of a tradition that dates back centuries. Except, it doesn’t – the bar as we now know it is of relatively recent vintage and, in many respects, the new regulations are returning us to the practices of a much earlier era. How Breweries Are Adjusting During COVID-19.

            -B. ADDED Patrons Are Asked to Self Quarantine after about 85 People Who Visited a Michigan Bar Get Covid-19, unlikely to be followed and probably won’t help with Thousands Gather for Michigan Boat Party That Officials Said They Couldn’t Stop. Texas Governor Regrets Opening Bars During Coronavirus Pandemic, Texas Bar Owners Plan Protest Against New Shutdowns as Coronavirus Cases Spike. [Cartoon].

CV27. Learning: Alabama to Reopen All Schools for in Person Teaching in Fall. Alabama Reports its Third Highest Day of COVID-19 Cases.

CV28. Logistics: FEMA Ordered $10.2 Million in COVID-19 Testing Kits It’s Now Warning States Not to Use.

            CV28.1. The US Might Not Have Enough Glass Vials to Distribute the Coronavirus Vaccines. 200624-28.1.

CV32. Anthromes: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Shape Cities. At the turn of the 20^th century, tuberculosis was America's third most common cause of death. It struck down the young as well as the old and was so contagious that spitting anywhere in public except for spittoons was outlawed ^CV22.

CV33. Legal: Judge Orders ICE to Free Detained Immigrant Children Because of COVID-19. Immigration Officials Were Given Money for Medical Care and Food for Migrants. They Spent it on ATVs, Dirt Bikes, and Boats Instead. US Expands Virus Testing of Detained Migrants amid Criticism. We've Seen this Coming: Why Migrant Children Are Dying in Border Patrol Custody. 200610-CV33, 200526-CV25, 200414-24A.

            -A. ADDED: US must Release Children from Detention Centers Due to Covid-19, Judge Rules by July 17. 200719-CV33. 200808-CV33.

            -B. MORE: Apr 2022 #Document ICE Spent Funds on Unused Beds, Missed Covid 19 Protocols, and Detention Standards While Housing Migrant Families in Hotels =2=, ICE Spent More than $9 Million on Unused El Paso Hotel Beds for Detained Migrants. ^CV33.