CV01. Protection: Face Shields, CV03. Information: Viral Virus Podcast, CV07. Emergence: Touch Face Warner, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Pandemic Board Game, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Art as Public Health, CV15. Death: Requiem, Italy, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Bill Gates, Crimes Against Humanity, Microneedle Patches, CV20. Communication: Motivational Interviewing, CV22. Longue Duree: 1918H1N1 (Flu) Politicizing, Masks, 2014Ebola, CV25. Movement: Commuting, Hotel Stays, CV31. Futuring: Restoring Science, Protecting Public
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CV01. Protection: Can Face Shields Help Prevent COVID-19. Here’s How They Compare to Face Masks. Experts are mixed on this one.
CV03. Information: A Virus Podcast Goes Viral. In the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a relatively obscure virology podcast called This Week in Virology suddenly became wildly popular. Seemingly overnight, the show suddenly gained tens of thousands of new listeners – from postal workers to police officers to English teachers – were writing in with all sorts of questions, some scientific, some highly personal (should I postpone my wedding). For many listeners, the effect of the show was therapeutic: they reported that the show’s reasoned tone (and frequent outbursts of laughter) had a calming effect on them. The show itself became a kind of interactive knowledge project – listeners from all over the world wrote in to share data points about the virus. It's a story about public science, how scientific knowledge is produced in the face of extreme uncertainty, and the calming effect of casual conversation.
CV07. Emergence: This Teen Invented a Watch That Warns You about Touching Your Face So You Don't Catch Coronavirus CV19.
CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: How Do Doctors Treating Coronavirus Relax. By Playing the Game 'Pandemic'. Coronavirus in Minnesota: Board Game Pandemic Provides Real Life Parallels. Pandemic – the Board Game – Foreshadows Current Crisis. Pandemic Is One of the Best Board Games Ever Made. It Could Be Fun to Play Right Now. No Single Player Can Win This Board Game. It’s Called Pandemic CV27, the only way to win is to cooperate with the other players and have everyone win, apparently a lesson never learned by several world leaders. Pandemic, the Game, Has Become All Too Real, Says its Creator. Social Distancing Diaries: Playing ‘Pandemic Legacy’ During an Actual Pandemic, a board game about disease may not seem like a natural activity to play during this strange time, but for some, it’s proved to be a welcome distraction The parademic database has a few stubs about this board game over the years, noting how it has evolved over time. I wonder if the next version will include wearing masks, address gender, race and poverty, have idiot leaders.
CV09. Arts, Creativity: Art as Public Health Communication During Covid-19. The challenge of public health has always been to reach members of our community where they are, rather than where we hope they are. Part of the solution to this challenge for public health practitioners is crafting stories–stories that manage to claim the attention and sympathy of a wide range of people while still communicating essential health information.
-A. During the flu pandemic of 1918, public health officials faced many of the same challenges we encounter today: inadequate medical supplies CV28, the fear of economic catastrophe CV05, politicization of the disease CV04 CV22↓, and a population suspicious of emergency restrictions CV03 CV11 CV16 CV17 CV18. Many governmental and health leaders turned to art as a way to reach their fellow citizens to inform of the dangers of the flu and provide clear information on ways to stay safe from its ravages. Health related artwork and public notices went up in towns and cities from San Francisco to New York.
CV15. Death: Italy Honors, Remembers Virus Dead with Donizetti’s Requiem CV09.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Why Do Some Folks Think That Bill Gates Should Be Investigated for Medical Malpractice and Crimes Against Humanity. Harbinger of another antivax narrative for CV, combined with deep state tracking. The Bill Gates Microchip Conspiracy Theory that he could implant trackable microchips in everyone using his vaccines. Bill Gates actually did talk about digital contact tracing and a national tracking system for positive COVID-19 tests, and the Gates Foundation did help fund research into the creation of quantum dots or microneedle patches that could be used for vaccination record keeping. ¿Microneedle patches for vaccination record keeping, isn’t that a microchip?. The chip like thing folks are talking about are the microneedles – not a microchip. Those dissolvable microneedles leave behind a pattern of fluorescent microparticles that can be seen with an adapted smartphone, but they can’t be tracked remotely. No microchip is implanted in or under your skin.
CV20. Communication: Medical School Taught Me How to Talk to Conspiracy Theorists. Motivational interviewing, a counseling method used by physicians, offers a way to counter Covid-19 misinformation. ADDED To Persuade an Opponent, Try Listening, Berkeley Scholar Says. I’ve learned that conspiracy theorists are often neither malevolent nor unintelligent. Rather, many are afraid of their own powerlessness, and these theories offer them a semblance of control. Believing that Covid-19 was perpetuated by organizations with evil intentions allows conspiracy theorists to affix their anxiety onto a big, bad villain, rather than acknowledge our collective powerlessness against the whims of nature. Conspiracy theories may allow the believer tat they are not limited by one’s level of wealth or education.
CV22. Longue Duree: CV09↑. The Political Lessons of the 1918 Pandemic disasters have a way of revealing pathologies in a country's economic, social, and political systems.
-A. Looking Back at 1918 In the U.S. of 1918, with advanced communication systems and a free press, you might assume that Americans would have received accurate information CV03 CV20 about a pandemic in their midst. But that is not the case; the country that circulated the most news about it was Spain. As a neutral country during the war, they did not have to follow war censorship laws. Most people heard news about the illness from them, which is why it was called the Spanish Flu.
-B. From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19: Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic and First World War. History never repeats itself. Every single historical moment is distinct from those past. Nevertheless, parallels can be drawn between different historical events; even though history does not teach us what to do, it can inspire us to act. Examining the 1918 influenza pandemic is an opportunity to consider the current coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis from a different perspective.
-C. Pandemics, Politics and the Spanish Flu. When it was over, a kind of stunned silence fell on the survivors. If we can’t reconstruct our memories of the Spanish flu quickly enough, millions more will die in the next pandemic.
-D. Regulating the 1918-19 Pandemic: Flu, Stoicism and the Northcliffe Press. Social historians have argued that the reason the 1918-19 Spanish influenza left so few traces in public memory is that it was overshadowed by the First World War, hence its historiographical characterisation as the ‘forgotten’ pandemic. This paper argues that such an approach tends to overlook the crucial role played by wartime propaganda. Instead, I put emotion words, emotives and metaphors at the heart of my analysis in an attempt to understand the interplay between propaganda and biopolitical discourses that aimed to regulate civilian responses to the pandemic. The politicisation of ‘dread’ in war as an emotion with the potential to undermine civilian morale. This was especially the case during the final year of the conflict when war-weariness set in, leading to the stricter policing of negative emotions. As a protean disease that could present as alternately benign and plague like, the Spanish flu both drew on these discourses and subverted them, disrupting medical efforts to use the dread of foreign pathogens as an instrument of biopower. The result was that, as dread increasingly became attached to influenza, it destabilised medical attempts to regulate the civilian response to the pandemic, undermining stoicism.
-E. The Face Mask Is a Political Symbol in America, and What it Represents Has Changed Drastically in the 100 Years since the Last Major Pandemic. The behaviors related to masks may be a prodrome to resistence to a CV vaccine, in fact there appear to be overlap of gun rights, anti science, and antivax with resistence to masking and insisting on reopening before the first wave of CV has reached a stable trough after a long term downward trend.
-‡. CV04. Trevor Noah Rips Mask Truthers as Coronavirus Cases Spike. Watch this Insane Viral Video of Florida Anti Maskers Screaming at Lawmakers. Arkansas Governor Urges Consistent National Message on Wearing Masks =2=. Pelosi: Nationwide Mask Mandate Definitely Long Overdue. Pence: We Want to Defer to Local Officials on Requiring Masks. GOP Committee Chair: it Would Help If Trump Would Wear a Mask Occasionally. Like Leaning into a Left Hook: Coronavirus Calamity Unfolds Across Divided US, the city council met to decide whether to require people to wear masks, a basic protection the CDC strongly recommends. Doctors lined up to plead their case. When the vote was called, it divided on largely racial lines. 4 Black members voted for masks, in order to prevent more families losing six loved ones. 4 White members voted against masks, to preserve the fundamental right not to attach a cloth to your face. The ordinance failed. A Dr uttered just one word “Unbelievable”. More Cities Consider or Implement Face Mask Requirements. Q&A: Are Face Mask Requirements Legal. Masks and the Outdoor Exerciser: Advice for Runners, Bikers, Walkers, Hikers. We Asked Why You Choose to or Not Wear a Mask. Here’s How 1K KSL.com Readers Responded. US Health Secretary: Trump Doesn’t Wear a Mask Due to His Unique Circumstances. ADDED Wear a Mask. Republicans Split with Trump as Virus Cases Surge.
-F. Coronavirus Modelers Factor in New Public Health Risk: Accusations Their Work Is a Hoax. St. Louis endured two catastrophic episodes during the 1918 flu pandemic. The city imposed strict restrictions early on but loosened them under pressure from its citizens, only to see deaths jump again.
-G. What We Still Haven’t Learned Since the 1918 Pandemic. The 1918 pandemic was incredibly deadly. It killed more people in 15 months than the bubonic plague killed in the entire 14th century. The lethality of this particular disease can be attributed to the limited medical technology available at the time. Physicians adopted ineffective and even deadly treatments like bloodletting. Further, large scale deployments of soldiers to the trenches of World War I sped up the spread of the disease. But there is one common variable between the outbreaks that continues to threaten our capacity to combat the disease: Governmental limiting of accurate information and the spread of misinformation.
-H. Personally I find more analogous parallels with the 2014Ebola, that are directly applicable and influencing the current CV parademic and biocalamity. However, I’ve also found that accuracy and being more apt and comparable to the present situation are not the best way to communicate. The 1918H1N1 is remote enough that people will not take comments as personally. It helps that there was more information than usual floating about with the 100th anniversary of the 1918H1N1, so just possibly people may be more familiar with, while having less vested interest in how 1918H1N1 is compared to CV.
CV25. Movement: Covid-19 Is Revolutionizing the Way We Commute. Here's What Checking into a Hotel Is like in the Age of Covid-19.
CV31. Futuring: #Document Restoring Science, Protecting the Public, 43 Steps for the Next Presidential Term. The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare how the nation suffers when science and its role in governance is sidelined or eliminated. A successful emergence from the pandemic will require the development of scientific capacity and safeguards that improve the nation’s ability to protect people’s health, root out corruption, and improve our quality of life. This is especially true for communities that bear disproportionate impacts from public health and environmental threats.
-A. Support for the role of science in policymaking – and for government conducting and sharing science on behalf of the people – is strong across the political spectrum. Making independent science a core pillar of an agenda for the next presidential term has the support of good government, public health, environmental, consumer, and human and civil rights advocates representing tens of millions of Americans of varying political affiliations.
-B. There is an urgent need to rebuild trust in the ability of government institutions to provide reliable information and make decisions in the public interest. This series of memos provides concrete steps the administration can take – without significant expenditures – to make government more effective, efficient, transparent, and accountable.
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