CV Pandemic Daily Notes 200616

CV01. Protection: Masks During Heatwaves, CV02. Humor: Restaurants, CV03. Information: Russian Disinformation, Secondary Infektion, Infodemic, CV05. Economics: Investing During CV Lull, 2^nd Wave, CV02.1. Protection of Economy CV06. Linguistics: R + K, Superspreaders, CV13. Outliers: Psychopathic Non Compliance, CV15. Death: End of Life and Palliative Care over Zoom, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: New Zealand Military Quarantine Facilities, CV24. Norms: Abnormal New Normal, CV25. Movement: Flying Restrictions, CV26. Environment, One Health: Lack of Preparation, Positioning and Planning = Losing to CV before it Emerged, CV31. Futuring: Permanent Telehealth, CV32. Anthromes: Rural Weaknesses, Prisons, Poverty, Navajo, Lack of Medical Access, CV33. Legal: US Ordered to Release Tribal Funds

PDN Introduction.

CV01. Protection: How to Wear a Mask and Stay Cool and Safe During the Warmer Months. Despite lifted restrictions and the reopening of many activities, experts still recommend wearing a mask, even if it's outdoors. As temperatures rise, wearing a mask may feel stifling at times. How do you keep cool and stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic.

CV02. Humor: [Cartoon].

CV03. Information: Study Exposes Russia Disinformation Campaign That Operated in the Shadows for 6 Years. Secondary Infektion by researchers, has sought to spread pro-Russian propaganda around the globe by sharing fake tweets from U.S. elected officials and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus, The COVID-19 Infodemic.

-A. ADDED Russia Revises Sharply Higher Coronavirus Death Toll among Medics. Russia Says Preparing for New Wave of Coronavirus in Autumn.

CV05. Economics: Emerging from the Pandemic. Investors understand that economic data immediately ahead will be bad, But expect a slow recovery to begin in the third quarter. Stocks also received a boost from early evidence of the efficacy of COVID-19 drugs in clinical trials. In the near term, the direction of stock prices may depend on answers to several questions: 1) What is the risk of a reacceleration, it was only a few month ago that the general public did know use acceleration with disease ^CV06. 2) Assuming there is no second wave =2= =3= =4= (actually a surge of the still on going 1^st wave) and a slow recovery begins in the third quarter (a very risky assumption), are stocks overvalued relative to earnings growth. 3) How robust will the recovery be, and how quickly will jobs (and buying) be restored. 4) Historically after robust relief rallies stock prices tend to drop.

CV05.1. We Can Protect the Economy from Pandemics. Why Didn't We. Most likely post CV will make it necessary to restructure the whole stock market and financial infrastructure that were demonstrated to be flawed for modern circumstances unrelated to CV. Financial safety nets, safeguards and regulations will need to be reestablished, hopefully in informed ways and not as a back lash to the greedy. Most importantly there will need to be more equity, decreasing the wealth gap and improving access to basic life support (safe food, clean water, power, uncontaminated air, biodiversity, shelter and space, information, health care).

CV06. Linguistics: Is the K Number the New R Number. What You Need to Know. Just a few months ago, no one, aside from epidemiologists and their ilk, had heard of the R number. Now, thanks to the coronavirus, everyone has heard of it and most people can tell you that it’s the reproduction number, an indicator of the average number of people an infected person goes on to infect. .

-A. The R number is regularly referred to by governments around the world and by news anchors and their guests when discussing the pandemic. Yet no sooner had the public wrapped their head around one mathematical symbol than another cropped up. This time, the letter K.

-B. Rather than assuming that every infected person and every contact they make follows the same pattern (as with the R number), scientists working on epidemic models allow for the number of new cases caused by each infected person to vary randomly. Some people might have high viral loads or might simply cough more and hence spread the virus more effectively. Many people, although ill and highly infectious, don’t show any symptoms. They might make many contacts without realising they pose a danger to others.

-C. People also differ in the way they interact with others. For some, contacts might involve just the immediate family or a small group of colleagues at work or friends. The disease will then only have a chance to be transmitted to a few people. But if an infected person goes to choir practice, a football match or visits several pubs or nightclubs, the number of people who might catch the disease becomes large. Scientists call such massive and rapid outbreaks caused by one or a few infected individuals, super spreading events, and their initiators are known as super spreaders. In many cases, 80% of the new disease cases are caused by only 20% of such super spreading individuals. 200615-CV04B.

-D. Simply put, a low K value suggests that a small number of infected people are responsible for large amounts of disease transmission. For the 1918 influenza, the number K is thought to be around 1, and perhaps 40% of infected people might not pass on the virus to anybody else. But for diseases like Sars, Mers and COVID-19 with K as low as 0.1, this proportion rises to 70%. In contrast, large outbreaks will be initiated by only few super spreaders. Small values of K mean that one infected person can trigger many new cases in a very short time. If this happens, the epidemic can quickly rebound , even if locally eradicated ^CV32A↓.

CV13. Outliers: Psychopathic Traits Linked to non Compliance with Social Distancing Guidelines amid the Coronavirus Pandemic. Dr. Deborah Birx, ‘There’s no magic bullet. There’s no magic vaccine or therapy. It’s just behaviors. Each of our behaviors, translating into something that changes the course of this viral pandemic over the next 30 days’. Pavel S. Blagovm ‘My experience as a psychological scientist as well as a practicing psychologist has convinced me that the importance of psychology and behavior in the prevention and management of a wide range of health problems is enormous. This includes personality, or the study of important ways in which people differ. It was clear from reports in the media very early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some people were rejecting advice to socially distance and engage in increased hygiene”. Like all reputable research ^CV30, the study includes some caveats. This is about traits in common with, not diagnosed pathology, and it has not been extensively tested. Psychopaths =2= are estimated to be 1% of the general population, with 21 percent of CEO’s =2= and politicians =2=. This makes such behaviors outliers. However if there is tendency to take leadership roles, or follow such leaders, and clustering with those of similar ideology, the impact of this minority can be synergized.

CV15. Death: When Doctors and Patients Talk About Death Over Zoom ^CV19 ^CV20. During the Covid-19 pandemic, palliative care specialists are discovering that technology can add a lot to these difficult discussions. Palliative Care is not limited to terminal conditions but can include chronic ones and handicaps, to include the ones from CV =2= =3=.

-A. ADDED The Pandemic Is Changing How We Die – and Not Just for Covid-19 Patients. How One Hospital Comforts Dying Coronavirus Patients. 201215-CV15 -A.

CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: New Zealand Military to Oversee Quarantine Facilities after New Covid-19 Case.

-A. MORE: New Zealand Military To Oversee Borders After Coronavirus Bungle. Jun 2022 Threats Against Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Triple, According to Report, threats against public health, medical and political leaders increase with the more they advocate CV measures, with the exception of Xi of China who has been able to implement the strongest measures and rules and authoritarian state.

CV24. Norms: We Are Not Made for this New Normal. In perilous times, our deepest human impulse is to draw close to each other – the very thing we’ve been told not to do. The nomenclature was so strange at first, and then it was everywhere ^CV06.

CV25. Movement: The Future of Travel After the Coronavirus Pandemic, seven predictions ^CV31. U.S. Airlines Threaten to Ban Passengers Who Refuse to Wear Masks. Airlines Ban Alcohol on Planes in Response to Covid-19.

-A. MORE: American Airlines Suspends Alcohol Service for Economy Class ^CV02, 200911-CV31.

CV26. Environment, One Health: COVID-19: Losing Battles or Winning the War. “Every battle is won or lost before it is even fought”. This statement is attributed to Sun Tzu in the Art of War. It highlights the importance of preparation, positioning and planning before engaging in battle. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic painfully revealed how many countries had embarked on a battle that was lost even long before the new coronavirus had reached their borders. More strikingly, most have persisted in this defeatist attitude as the crisis deepened, failing to redirect their strategy. Living with SARS-CoV-2 by returning as closely as possible to “business as usual” is far from winning the battle. It rather looks like “giving in to the enemy”, while vaccine and drug development efforts only feed the dearest hope for a successful way out. The parademic database has assessments the US and World were not ready for a pandemic that go back more than 10 years. Would rather not have had proof of that. On the other hand we are lucky that this was a low intensity pandemic. MORE: This May Not Be The Big One: Army Scientists Warn of Deadlier Pandemics to Come. MORE: This May Not Be The Big One: Army Scientists Warn of Deadlier Pandemics to Come.

CV31. Futuring: Bipartisan Senators Call for Making Telehealth Expansion Permanent Post Coronavirus. 201011-CV16A.

-A. POST COLLECTIO: Feb 2023 Bipartianship is gone and now there are legal efforts being made to end telehealth and blame deflection with congressional committees about CV fraud rather than creating enabling legislation for a permanent national public health system.

CV32. Anthromes: Rural Health Care and Covid-19: A Research Roundup. During the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., most outbreaks were centered in cities and their surrounding areas. Preparations for critically ill patients focused on the capacity and readiness of hospitals in high population and high density communities. As hot spots continue to emerge throughout the country, rural health care systems face challenges unlike those in urban areas. This research roundup focuses on the state of rural health care and its capacity to respond to a pandemic. Overall, rural health care systems are not as robust as metropolitan area systems. They have fewer hospitals, fewer physicians specializing in critical care and fewer intensive care unit beds per capita. Non metropolitan areas have about half the number of ICU beds as metropolitan areas after adjusting for population age. Church Tied to Oregon’s Largest Coronavirus Outbreak in rural northeastern Oregon.

-A. Covering Rural Health Care amid COVID-19. We’re seeing hot spots in rural places where there are prisons, where there are meatpacking plants 200612-CV03D, where there is deep, deep and chronic poverty and structural racism – especially in places like the Navajo Nation 200605-CV11 ^CV06D↑ ^CV33↓: 1) Seek out COVID-19 rates at the county and town level, not just at the state level, Covid-19 Cases Spike in 21 States ^CV02. 2) Don’t cover rural areas as homogeneous. 3) Keep in mind that the small size of rural health care systems can sometimes be an advantage. 4) Look to a news outlet with the expertise on covering rural America. ^CV30.