CV02. Humor: Empathy, Just Joking Justification, CV05. Economics: Rent Issues, CV15. Death: Russia's Low Mortality Count, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Too Soon or Never Done, Testing Problems, CV16.1. EU Reopens, CV28. Logistics: Vaccine Manufacture and Distribution, CV33. Legal: Columbia, Public - Individual Safety
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CV02. Humor: Relation Between Humor and Empathic Concern. Humor is associated with close interpersonal relationships and effective in reducing stress, which in turn enhances empathy. Therefore, it was hypothesized that humor and empathic concern would be positively correlated. Types of humor may be an important variable in the relationship between empathic concern and humor. Both humor and empathic concern are associated for people with emotional intelligence who use these to interact effectively with other individuals [Cartoon]. As such, it was suggested that exploration would yield a relation between humor and emotional self awareness, which is also associated with emotional intelligence =2= =3= =4=. [Strip].
-A. "Just Joking" Justification. When Jokes Are Actually Angry Lies, hiding behind the "I was just joking" defense. The Just Joking Defense. Trump Says He Was Being Sarcastic with Comments about Injecting Disinfectants =2= =A= =3= =4= =5=. [Cartoon].
CV05. Economics: Landlords Using Harassment, Threats to Force out Tenants During Covid-19 CV33, Rent Relief. This U.S. City Is Looking to Cancel Rent for Tenants Hit Hard by Covid-19 Pandemic CV29. MORE: Moratorium on Evictions During Covid-19 Protects Vulnerable Children. 200515-CV31.1.
CV15. Death: Russia’s Low Virus Death Toll Still Raises Questions in West. When his father died in a Moscow hospital last month after 11 days on a ventilator, the death certificate listed the coronavirus as an underlying condition but not the actual cause of death.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Some States Reopened Too Early. We Were Warned. Now, Look at Their Covid-19 Cases. We managed to disrupt our economy and skyrocket unemployment, and we didn’t control the damn virus. I beg to differ a bit. The states that reopened too early tended to be the ones that delayed lockdown, and did not have good compliance anyway. They also tended to not have collected data (which may not be valid anyway given the unreliability =2= =3= of the available tests) for long enough to have valid patterns, to make evidence based decisions. There was also the assumption that if our numbers are low, that means they will stay low. ADDED Covid-19 Cases Spike in 21 States CV02.
CV16.1. Europe Reopens Many Borders but Not to Americans, Asians, Latin America and the Middle East will just have to wait for now. Coronavirus Triggers New American Border Debate – with Canada, [Cartoon]. The Pandemic Closed the Border and this Engaged Couple Was Stuck on Opposite Sides.
CV28. Logistics: COVID-19 Vaccine in Warp Speed. As we race to find a vaccine, Americans need to know that our current vaccine production infrastructure is already strained and that building new infrastructure is both expensive and complicated 200605-CV01. It costs anywhere from $50 to $700 million to build a new facility and takes years to complete, ADDED What’s at Stake for Industry in the Pharmaceutical Space Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine. Existing production facilities are highly specialized for making a single, specific type of vaccine, like polio or measles, and they are currently reserved to make those vaccines. If those facilities are repurposed to make a new COVID-19 vaccine, it will put the supply of other critical vaccines at risk.
-A. In addition, shortages of supplies like syringes and vials could delay the delivery of current vaccines and a future COVID-19 vaccine. Meeting these enormous challenges will require three immediate steps from the federal government. First, Congress must spread its bets and purchase up to 10 potential COVID-19 vaccines currently under development and experimentation, Questions about How Crash Program Is Picking Coronavirus Vaccines to Back with funds is unclear. Next, we cannot continue to sacrifice other urgent health care needs to COVID-19, so Congress should purchase a year’s supply of all existing vaccines. Third, a vaccine is no good without the vials, syringes and storage capacity that currently does not exist. [Meme].
CV33. Legal: The legal issues of protecting a community versus individual privacy has come up several times during CV. Sometimes the issue is raised to justify politicized or self profit behavior that is harmful to the community, sometimes the issue have been framed to favor suppressing individuals in the best interest of the community (nation, political party). Colombia’s Medellín Emerges as Surprise Covid-19 Pioneer. Two and a half million residents. Four confirmed coronavirus deaths. As coronavirus cases surge in Latin America, the Colombian city of Medellin is defying expectations and managing to keep numbers remarkably low. Months into the pandemic, there are just 741 confirmed cases citywide and only 10 patients hospitalized in ICUs with COVID-19. The metropolis recently went five weeks without a single COVID-19 death.
-A. In theory, that shouldn’t be the case. The city is dense, home to many poor residents who will go hungry if they quarantine for too long and connected by a congested public transportation system. All these factors have made the virus especially hard to contain in Latin America. City officials and epidemiologists credit early preparation, a novel app that connected needy residents with food and cash while also collecting important data that later helped track cases, and a medical system that has moved rapidly to treat the sick before they fall critically ill.
-B. Critics fear the immense data being collected on citizens amounts to a severe invasion of privacy C↓, but even they admit that it has proven effective in containing COVID-19. It’s impossible to fight the virus without information. We’d have deaths in the hundreds if we hadn’t made these decisions.
-C‡. Colombia to Hold 19 Day Quarantine to Fight Coronavirus. Colombian Death Squads Exploiting Coronavirus Lockdown to Kill Activists B↑ this background gives the fear about personal information being collected a sensible one. Venezuelans Face Evictions amid Colombia Coronavirus Quarantine. To Beat the Virus, Colombia Tries Separating Men and Women. Colombia's Economic Reactivation Accelerated Coronavirus Infections. For Colombia's Quarantined Poor, Lunch Is Served by Trendy Restaurants. Coronavirus in Colombia: Myth vs Reality – Current Status.
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