CV03. Information: CDC Rating, CV04. Politics: Polarization Process, CV05. Economics: Remdesivir Price, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Jason Voorhees PSA, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Open Relationships, CV15. Death: Houston Hospital Preparing, CV15.1. Nigeria Burying Secrets, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Restaurant Plastic Waste, CV22. Longue Duree: Past Explains Present, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Terrorizing Public Health, Lockdown Civil Disorder, CV24. Norms: Disproportional Threat Assessments, CV27. Learning: Close or Open Schools, CV27.1. Gambling on College Student Responsibility, CV28. Logistics: Selling China N95s, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Commission for Accounting of CV Response, CV31. Futuring: Speculating about Pandemic and Change, CV32. Anthromes: Non Infectious Homes, CV33. Legal: Pandemic Litigation
PDN Introduction.
CV03. Information: Three Months In, Many Americans See Exaggeration, Conspiracy Theories and Partisanship in COVID-19 News. As Americans continue to process a steady flow of information about the coronavirus outbreak – from changing infection and death rates to new testing protocols and evolving social distancing guidelines – they give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health organizations the highest rating when it comes to getting the facts right.
-A. I don’t give CDC such a high rating, in part because at one time information from CDC/ HHS did not need to be checked. Now what is put out, especially by political appointees, needs to be evaluated if the information is evidence based or political/ economic opinion. This is not a problem for parademic since it is oriented toward beliefs, whether in agreement or in conflict with other beliefs. However, for the clinical side best evidence available does matter, and valuable time (lives) is wasted in having to second guess information, of having to express information, and make excuses for dangerous misinformation and behaviors, in terms that they will not be censured and censored by political commissars, compromising intellectual integrity to be able to still have a voice. A recent example is Fauci Doubts Effectiveness of Coronavirus Vaccine in US Due to Antivaxxers, which is very passive voice and wishy washy, even for a cautious scientist. [Cartoon].
CV04. Politics: A New Theory about Political Polarization. A certain degree of polarization of political opinions is considered normal – and even beneficial – to the health of democracy. In the last few decades, however, conservative and liberal views have been drifting farther apart than ever, and at the same time have become more consistent. When too much polarization hampers a nation's ability to combat threats such as the coronavirus pandemic, it can even be deadly.
-A. What happens when opinions and interpersonal attitudes are in conflict with each other, i.e., when individuals disagree with others they like, or agree with others they dislike. People will try to overcome this imbalance by adapting their opinions, in order to increase balance with their emotions. A vicious circle of increasingly intense emotions and opinions gradually replaces moderate positions until most issues are seen in the same – often extremely polarized – way as one's political allies.
CV05. Economics: Why a Covid-19 Drug Costs $3,100. Gilead’s $2,340 Price for Coronavirus Drug Draws Criticism. Gilead Is Wise to Leave Remdesivir Money on the Table. ADDED US Buys up World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir. No other country will be able to buy remdesivir, which can help recovery from Covid-19, for next three months at least. This Will Move Will Continue the United States Becoming Further Isolated by Covid-19 Crisis as Health Experts Warn of Continued Suffering.
CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Jason Voorhees Speaks Out on Coronavirus Protective Face Masks in New Ad. As the world continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic on a global scale, one of the biggest social debates of the day is whether or not to wear a protective mask while in public. Despite urgings of health officials from all over the globe, somehow wearing a protective face mask has become a polarizing and politicized issue. The debate has gotten so intense that it's sparked an entire PSA media campaign about the importance of wearing a mask CV02 CV03 CV20 - and Friday the 13th's iconic slash killer Jason Voorhees is getting in on that action. =2= =3= =4= =5=. Jason Voorhees Vs. The Coronavirus Video. Possibly more effective than the evidence based Scientist Demonstrates the Effect of Wearing a Mask Vs. Not Wearing One. ADDED [Cartoon =2=].
CV12. Personal, Relationships: What It's like to Be in an Open Relationship During Covid-19. Maybe because I live in California, with a spouse from Utah, Non Binary, Serial Polygamous, Blended Families, are not unusual CV13.
CV15. Death: Feeling like Death: Inside a Houston Hospital Bracing for a Covid-19 Peak. [Cartoon].
CV15.1. Nigeria’s Grave Diggers Bury Secret Covid Victims Every Day. By late May, nearly a month after the city began to witness mass deaths, close to 400 people had been buried in this one cemetery, including those put on top of other graves as diggers struggled to find fresh spaces. You wouldn’t know any of this from the Nigerian government’s statistics, which are much, much lower. And in fact, there are few places in the world where the discrepancy between the toll taken by the virus and the reluctance of a government to admit it is so glaring as it is here among the grave diggers
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Plastic Waste Surges as Coronavirus Prompts Restaurants to Use More Disposable Packaging. 200520-CV26, 200409-CV26, 200301-3. I’ve though that there would be more emergence of trash and containers that safely decomposes, but so far I’ve only observed more use of paper.
CV22. Longue Duree: History’s Crystal Ball: What the Past Can Tell Us about Covid-19 and Our Future. During this pandemic, historians have been consulted like the Oracle of Delphi. Is COVID-19 like the Black Death, the 1918 flu, what lessons of history can be applied to today.
-A. But can history show us what we want to know. In some ways, yes. In others, no. And we need to broaden what we ask. Pandemic histories are useful, but how they connect with race, public health, revolution, labour, gender and colonial histories will help us explain the present and predict the future.
CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Death Threats, Shoves, and Throwing Blood: Antivaxxers’ Bullying of Public Health Officials Endangers Our Country, 200624-28.1A. I Will Kill You: Health Care Workers Face Rising Attacks Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, 200610-CV23, 200529-CV23, 200514-CV33, 200510-CV31A, 200506-CV23.
CV23.1. Local Lockdowns Could Lead to Civil Disorder, and Here Is Why. Local lockdowns have frequently gone hand in hand with draconian police enforcement and sophisticated but intrusive systems of tracking, tracing and isolating that rely on public trust. In the absence of any workable means of identifying who has the virus, there is a real danger that imposing control measures will be seen as illegitimate by large sections of the population.
-A. In towns and cities, small geographical areas often intersect with profound socioeconomic and ethnic divisions. Anger arising from those who feel they have been locked down unfairly may be directed at those sections of the community thought to have started the outbreak and at the police, who will be charged with enforcing the boundaries between rich and poor neighborhoods. This will be particularly problematic in areas whose populations have more difficult historical relations with the police.
CV24. Norms: Cognitive Bias and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Why are so many people distressed at the possibility that a patient in plain view – such as a person presenting to an emergency department with severe respiratory distress – would be denied an attempt at rescue because of a ventilator shortfall, but do not mount similarly impassioned concerns regarding failures to implement earlier, more aggressive physical distancing, testing, and contact tracing policies that would have saved far more lives. These inconsistent responses may be related to errors in human cognition that prioritize the readily imaginable over the statistical, the present over the future, and the direct over the indirect. The parademic database has many stubs on this issue of the disproportion of response to the actual threat, i.e. that this is normal.
CV27. Learning: Most Educators Want Schools to Stay Closed to Slow Spread of COVID-19. As school district leaders struggle to solve the complex equation of reopening buildings in the fall or maintaining virtual learning, several factors are weighing heavily on their minds. How do you make educators feel comfortable in their work environments when more than half of them prefer school buildings stay shut to slow the spread of COVID-19. What about educators and students with underlying health conditions. What if remote learning must continue in the fall even though the approach led to declining student engagement this spring. U.S. Pediatricians Call for In Person School this Fall. Ohio Teachers Planning During the Pandemic Prepare for Drastic Changes – at Any Time.
CV27.1. The Wild Card for an In Person Fall: College Student Behavior. College reopening plans all rely on one thing: students following the rules. Some experts worry that's too big of an ask. College Students Want to Party: How They Keep Their Social Life this Fall, [Photo]. What More than 300 College Admissions Deans Are Looking for During the Pandemic.
CV28. Logistics: The Airline Industry Blocked Disclosure of Trade Data, Helping Conceal the Airlift of N95 Masks from the U.S. to China. In the first months of the Covid-19 outbreak – when U.S. hospitals faced a critical shortage of protective gear and exposed front-line medical workers to needless risk – hundreds of tons of medical face masks were loaded onto planes at U.S. airports and flown to China and other destinations for foreign buyers. If this is true there will be lots of questions: Did the US later buy these masks backs. Where did these masks come from (and if the SNS then national security issues). Was there corruption, bribes, profiteering involved. Did the White House know about this, not a good look with so many other things that were claimed were not aware of that is should have, or ignored reports about.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Experts Are Calling for a 9/11 Style Commission on U.S. Coronavirus Response. Here’s Where it Could Start. By the most basic of measurements – rates of illness and death – the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been catastrophic. So it seems inevitable that there will be an independent, bipartisan commission to evaluate the nation’s preparedness and response to the pandemic, in the style of the famous 9/11 commission empaneled in 2002. Already, many experts are calling for such a panel. Former NIH Director Calls Trump Administration's Pandemic Response Amateur Hour.
CV31. Futuring: How the Pandemic Will Change Our Lives in the Long Term. From the extinction of the daily commute to transforming our relationship with food, Covid-19 is changing our world already – and in some ways, it looks set to get better. Lockdown has tested people's creativity – particularly that of parents keeping their kids busy. Might be an interesting PhD Thesis in Parademic (if there is such a thing) comparing speculations of how pandemic and environmental change will change who people live, and what actually happens CV32↓.
-A. 20 Ways City Life Could Change Forever After Coronavirus: 1) There could be a greater focus on health security. On a more individual level, these are 13 everyday habits that could (and should) change after coronavirus. 2) Traffic might get worse. 3) There could be more flexible, multipurpose spaces. Here are 12 ways past epidemics changed everyday life in America. 4) Urban agriculture may increase. These are the 12 easiest foods to grow at home. 5) There could be more BYO dining (but not the kind you think). Check out these other ways coronavirus could change the way we eat. 6) City dwellers may prioritize the ability to walk to work. 7) There could be a bigger focus on modernized digital infrastructure. While 2020 has been rough, here are 12 reasons why it might be the wake up call we needed. 8) There could be a change in warehouse size and location. 9) America may become more walkable. 10) Food delivery and takeout options could get even better. 11) Thermal scanning could become a regular part of everyday life. 12) There could be a greater focus on health in urban planning. So, how does COVID-19 stack up against other pandemics in history. Here are 13 ways it's different. 13) Contactless delivery may significantly increase. 14) Public restrooms could get a makeover. 15) Public restrooms may become more environmentally friendly. 16) Face mask required and maximum occupancy sign [Poster]. 17) Brick and mortar stores might make a comeback. 18) Cities could rethink their public transit systems. 19) Live entertainment may not look the same. 20) Elevators might also go through some changes. On the flip side, you can now ignore these 10 etiquette rules because of coronavirus. 21) Offices could get smaller.
CV32. Anthromes: This Is How Covid-19 Could Affect Homes of the Future CV31↑. 1) Bigger lot sizes – and apartment building will become larger full floor suites, possibly creating a social bubble, some common areas (garden, gym), multiple elevators, secure delivery and communications. 2) Smart bathrooms and bidets. 3) Multigenerational homes with new features – learning centers, private spaces. 4) A new space designed for package delivery. 5) Not just smart homes – healthy homes. 6) Fewer open floor plans. 7) Home offices in creative places.
CV33. Legal: Mass Tort Lawyers Look to Master Pandemic Litigation and 15 other CV related legal issues.
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