CV06. Linguistics: Word Frequency, Framing, Masks, CV06.1. News Vocabulary, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Mulan Postponed, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Social Psychology Plan to Exit Lockdown, Collective Identity and Action, Challenges, CV20. Communication: Coronavirus Task Force, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Heath and Environment and War, CV23.1. Bioweapons, CV24. Norms: Homelessness, Habitual Ignoring
PDN Introduction.
CV06. Linguistics: Tweeting Our Way Through a Pandemic. Word frequency, how often a given word appears in a document, is a tool for understanding our speech. In this instance, they used word frequency to characterize all of the Congressional tweets from January 17th when COVID-19 was first mentioned until March 31st – roughly three weeks after COVID-19 was declared a national emergency.
-A. Democrats and Republicans chose very different words to their perception of the pandemic. For example, crisis was used 7% more often by the Democrats while China was mention 5% more by Republicans. Democrats also were more likely to tweet about COVID-19 than their Republican counterparts. For every 45 Republican Congressional tweets, there were 71 tweets from the Democrats. Democrats discussed the issues earlier, more frequently, and with more emphasis on public health and direct aid to affected workers. Republicans placed more emphasis on generalized national unity (unsure what national unity means in this context), China, and businesses. These terms indicate how each group is framing the situation, what they see as a problem, and what they would consider solutions.
-B. How the Split over Face Masks Sums up America’s Chaotic Coronavirus Response. Americans Keep Going Viral for Crazy Mask Rants. As Support for Mask Wearing Grows, So Do Political Risks for Forgoing Them. Founder of ReOpen Movement Who Refused Masks Tests Positive for Coronavirus.
-CV06.1. Essential Vocab for Covid-19: from Asymptomatic to Zoonotic. Some of the definitions are CV specific and not the technical meaning. More for understanding terms used in general media than clinical or parademic.
CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Disney Postpones ‘Mulan’ to August 21 as Coronavirus Cases Rise. Given reopening too soon, the chance of contact tracing going back to a movie theater (which are cool, thus attracting people during heat waves), that high numbers will mean the so called 2nd wave (2nd or more peak of the current pandemic), and the resistence to protective measures, it is probable that this movie may not open in the US.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: I have some doubts about this study. It has some unreasonable optimistic conclusions. Was written in a cultural setting but may not be applicable to other societies. Despite being very recent it was written immediately after March when the first peak had been reached in the EU, well before the hardening of ideological interpretations, along with another two months of a confusions of partial information and disinformation, two more months of lockdown and the backfire effect. That there was no prior preparation to maintain common ground, in fact quite the reverse the aggravated disunity. This is not a collaboration of the different fields that will be needed to accomplish the stated goal, but an ideal socialpsychology view. Even so it is worth evaluating the original for application for the current evolving circumstances in different settings.
-A. Maintaining Lockdown and Preparing an Exit Strategy: A View from Social and Behavioral Sciences. The main challenge that the lockdown and the implementation of an exit strategy pose to our society is the creation and maintenance of a sense of collective identity, connecting and coordinating citizens at the local and the regional or federal level. It is this sense of collective identity that will ensure the continued collective action necessary to keep the virus at bay, while gaining back some (new) normalcy and starting up (a changed) economy. To sustain collective action in an effective manner and over a prolonged period, such a collective identity would have to reflect the lived experiences of the pandemic by all citizens and include perspectives from the different local communities and social categories that make up civil society. Note that the headline calls this an exit strategy from lockdown, which has different implications than phased reopening of the economy.
-B. MORE: Collectivism Drives Efforts to Reduce the Spread of Covid-19, connecting and coordinating citizens at the local and the regional or federal level. It is this sense of collective identity that will ensure the continued collective action necessary to keep the virus at bay, while gaining back some (new) normalcy and starting up (a changed) economy. To sustain collective action in an effective manner and over a prolonged period, such a collective identity would have to reflect the lived experiences of the pandemic by all citizens and include perspectives from the different local communities and social categories that make up civil society. Note that the headline calls this an exit strategy from lockdown, which has different implications than phased reopening of the economy.
-C. Three key ingredients make collective identity, and by extension collective action, effective and sustainable over a prolonged period: 1) A common cause. 2) A sense of collective efficacy. 3) Collective emotions.
-D. Emotions are an important driver of collective action. In the present case, fear, which increases vigilance, empathy towards victims, caring for each other, hope as well as loss may play this role. To achieve a sense of collective identity, and by extension, collective action, social psychological research yields the following specific recommendations for action: 1) Emphasizing the shared cause. 2) Clear behavioral norms. 3) Reinforcing efficacy of the actions. 4) Provide reliable and realistic information about negative outcomes. 5) Communicating the information from reliable sources, with a consistent message, and admit mistakes quickly with a credible source and explanation, and fill the information vacuum created, before something else fills it. 6) Tailoring communication to different groups in society. 7) Take actions to address inequalities. 8) Creating and encouraging new forms of sociability and connectedness. From a parademic perspective this takes care of itself, emergence from the population, and should not be directed as it will rightly be seen as manipulation. However, not laissez faire, but nudged and neutralized with communication. Some emergent behaviors are violent protests, bunkering by authorities CV29, racism, etc. 9) Acknowledging legitimate emotions, (grief, loneliness, loss of meaning); allow for the emergence CV07 of spontaneous memorial and free protest (if safely done), 201231-CV10. MORE: Oct 2022 Emotional Debate over UK Covid Memorial Risks Dividing Bereaved. Dec 2022 Covid-19 Memorial Proposed for Albuquerque.
-E. The sense of collective identity is also likely to face multiple challenges: 1) Emphasis on coercion and control, law and order. 2) Repression. 3) Constraints to compliance (financial difficulties and at risk groups, in the US this is wearing a mask while Black 201216-CV01, medical personnel, being Kung Flu and Chinese virus. 4) Creation of barriers between social groups. 5) Authorities that are incompetent or only interested in personal interests.
-F. Inevitably, different groups in society will articulate demands associated with their specific predicament. 1) Do not ignore these different group identities but to ensure that they are viewed as compatible with the common purpose. 2) Acknowledge and treat in a fair manner. 3) Some groups will disengage from the plight of the wider society. 4) There will be subversion which can include authorities who will adopt harsher policies of control and failure to enforce protective measures. 3 Moral Virtues Necessary for an Ethical Pandemic Response and Reopening CV29, compassion, solidarity and justice.
CV20. Communication: Coronavirus Task Force Briefs – but Not at White House. There was no presidential appearance and no White House backdrop when the government’s coronavirus task force briefed the public for the first time since April – in keeping with an administration effort to show it is paying attention to the latest spike in cases but is not on a wartime footing that should keep the country from reopening the economy. In light of the new surge, task force briefers chose their words carefully to update the public about COVID-19, which has become both a public health and political issue. Pence had a delicate line to walk, acknowledging a surge in new cases across the South and West, while backing the president’s desire to get the economy up and running without mentioning that it will also help the prospects for reelection. Maybe the briefings should be renamed the Coronavirus Task Force Babble. Dr. Peter Hotez on Covid-19 Task Force Briefings: Stop Screwing Around Video.
CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: War is Not Healthy for Children and other Living Things =2= [Poster]. CV22.
CV23.1. Corona and Bioterrorism: How Serious Is the Threat. It is nearly inconceivable that a bioweapon would be as powerful as the recent coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. One of its uniquely devastating features has been that people are infectious while experiencing no symptoms. As it spread across the globe, there was no treatment, no vaccine, an incomplete understanding of its pathological modes of action, and no easy, cheap and widely available testing. It was the viral equivalent of a “zero day exploit” – a cyber-attack that happens before any patch is available.
CV24. Norms: Homelessness is actually a norm, but one the appals what norms should be. As a wicked problem most people prefer it be hidden away, confined to certain areas, or when it spills over to sensibilities actions are taken that are not always in the best interest of those who are homeless and those who are offended. The homeless/ poverty norms are to be hidden, slowly growing, another potential bradyoccult health and environmental threat, forcing migration CV25 to new fringe area and increasing skills at staying out of sight. Denver's Sweeps of Homeless Camps Run Counter to Covid-19 Guidance
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