CV01. Protection: All You Need to Learn is from Pre School, CV02. Humor: Bigger In Texas, CV04. Politics: Masks, Can't Breathe, CV05. Economics: Saving Money, CV07. Emergence: Floyd Protests Not Superspreader Events, Tulsa Still Waiting, Taking a Virus for the President, CV08. Entertainment: Las Vegas Covering Up, CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: Social Taboos Hindering Protection, CV27. Learning: Underfunded Reopening Schools, CV28. Logistics: Oxygen Supply, CV28.1. Making 4 Billion Doses, Threatening Those Doses, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Status of Texas, Dr Hotez, CV29.1. Ending Testing, CV30. Methodology: Issawi's Law, Before Outbreak, CV30.1. Wrong but Useful Heuristics
PDN Introduction.
CV01. Protection: What Parents Can Learn From Child Care Centers That Stayed Open During Lockdowns CV27. Throughout the pandemic, many child care centers have stayed open for the children of front line workers – everyone from doctors to grocery store clerks. YMCA of the USA and New York City's Department of Education have been caring for, collectively, tens of thousands of children since March, and both tell NPR they have no reports of coronavirus clusters or outbreaks.
CV02. Humor: 10 Quarantine Shut down Jokes You’ll Only Understand If You’re from Texas CV29↓. [Meme].
CV04. Politics: When Coronavirus Masks Become 'I Can't Breathe' Protest Signs. [Cartoon]. Only White People Are Required to Wear Masks in this Oregon County. Here’s Why. People of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public. For many Black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandanna in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life threatening consequences either way.
CV05. Economics: Coronavirus Has Turned America Into a Nation of Savers. But How Long Will It Last.
CV07. Emergence: What Contact Tracing Tells Us about Cluster Spread of the Coronavirus and Protests. As the U.S. begins to open back up, coronavirus clusters – where multiple people contract COVID-19 at the same event or location – are popping up all over the country. Despite drawing massive crowds, anti police protests in Washington state weren't among those clusters. Idaho Finds That Going to Bars, Not Going to Protests, Is Causing COVID-19 Spikes [Cartoon]. ADDED Parties – Not Protests – Are Causing Spikes in Coronavirus, Spring Breakers May Have Brought Covid-19 Back to Their Communities, COVID-19 Cases Are Surging, but Not Because of Black Lives Matter Protests.
-A. Record Number of Tulsa Virus Cases Not Yet Linked to Rally it's too soon to attribute any increase. 200618-CV04. It may also be awhile before related cases are identified due to lack of contact tracers, probability of people coming from several states, if there is sufficient testing and lab capacity, if people report illness and being in Tulsa, CV29.1↓. Dozens of Secret Service Agents Will Be Quarantined after Trump's Tulsa Rally, so does this mean that they had bullet proof vests but no masks is their role to protect the president.
-B. ADDED: Parties – Not Protests – Are Causing Spikes in Coronavirus, Spring Breakers May Have Brought Covid-19 Back to Their Communities, Covid-19 Cases Are Surging, but Not Because of Black Lives Matter Protests, 201216-CV01. MORE: Mar 2022 Spring Breakers Let Loose on Miami Beach After 2 Years of Covid-19. 200304
-C. MORE: As Trump Travels, Secret Service Copes with Infections, Secret Service Grapples with Coronavirus Cases among Agents Traveling for Trump Events. Secret Service Agents Are Battling Coronavirus Cases as Trump Moves Full Steam Ahead with in Person Gatherings. Rally Goers Hit Peak Trump Cult Status as Crowd Boos Mask Wearing Announcement. President Trump's Staff Tried to Keep Roundtable Participants at a Distance During a Briefing. More than 130 Secret Service Officers Reportedly under Coronavirus Quarantine the cases at least partly stem from President Trump's run of campaign rallies before Election Day. The number of officers forced off duty – roughly 10% of its core security team – could stress the Secret Service at large, forcing overtime and missed days off to make up for thestrain. That does not bode well for White House security. Almost 900 Secret Service Employees Were Infected with Covid, more than 11% of Secret Service employees.
CV08. Entertainment: Nevada Issues New Face Mask Order. Las Vegas Visitors must Now Cover Up.
CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: Social Taboos Hinder Indonesia's Fight Against Coronavirus, hundreds of people had refused testing for the new Coronavirus as social taboos emerge as another obstacle to stopping its spread in the world’s fourth most populous nation.
CV27. Learning: Budgets Put Limits on Social Distancing Options for Schools, many are finding themselves overwhelmed by the potential expenses CV05 that would come with operating under social distancing guidelines: protective equipment, CV28 staff for smaller classes and additional transportation CV25 to keep students spread out on bus rides. Can California Schools Put Safety Measures in Place in Time to Open Early. Many District Leaders Skeptical. The Economy Can't Reopen Without Schools. Trump Wants Schools to Reopen. Experts Say Covid-19 Safety Measures to Cost Billions. Trump Pushes Schools to Reopen. DeVos Says Some Classes May Remain Online CV19. With a New School Year Looming, Parents Have No Idea What to Do. ADDED [Cartoon].
-A. ADDED Education Dept. Rule Limits How Schools Can Spend Vital Aid Money. In April, issued guidance was issued suggesting private schools should benefit from a representative share of federal coronavirus aid money. Now it is standing firm on the intention to reroute millions of dollars in coronavirus aid money to K-12 private school students. The CARES Act rescue package included more than $13 billion to help public schools cover pandemic-related costs. Lawmakers from both parties countered that the aid was intended to be distributed based on how many vulnerable, low income students a district serves.
CV28. Logistics: Oxygen Is In Very Short Supply in Several Countries Facing Coronavirus. Lack of Access to Oxygen Supply in Poor Nations Hinders Treatment for COVID-19 Patients Listicle. Peru Is Running out of Oxygen for Covid-19 Patients, one of the world's most abundant elements in a center of the pandemic in Latin America. Some Hospitals Are Facing an Oxygen Shortage amid Coronavirus Crisis. WHO Warns of Oxygen Shortage as Covid Cases Set to Top 10 Million. Silent Hypoxics: Docs Warn of Coronavirus Link to Mysterious Low Oxygen Symptoms. Ties to 200623-CV28.
CV28.1. Vaccine Alliance Finds Manufacturing Capacity for 4 Billion Doses of Coronavirus Vaccines. I am being paranoid but are they doing Treat and Vulnerability studies of these locations. Besides the usual antivax, CV is a hoax, and other conspiracy theories that will hinder people getting the vaccine – to include the fear that warp speed vaccines will be unsafe, or the Chinese military is making the vaccine with its past failures and that some belief it developed CV as a bioweapon – there are likely to be protests at facilities, ad hominems*A and a strong possibility of sabotage and physical attacks on the facility, shipments and personnel CV23.
-*A. Amid Threats and Political Pushback, Public Health Officials Are Leaving Their Posts. Some Public Health Officials Are Resigning amid Threats During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Local Officials Hit Roadblocks on the Way to Enacting Measures to Curb Coronavirus Spikes. West Virginia Governor Pushed out Top Health Official after Questioning Coronavirus Data. Trump ‘Patriots’ Ready to Die for Freedom Shout down County Commissioners Because They Don’t Want to Wear Face Masks. FBI Sees Major Spike in Coronavirus Related Cyber Threats. 200619-CV16A. POST COLLECTIO: Soon after this individual sovereignty was simplified into an appropriation of the word Freedom emphasizing individuals right to opinion over the rights of community rights and public health, eventually coopting Our Bodies Our Choice CV06.
-*B. MORE: Proud of Vaccine Success, Warp Speed's ex Science Head Talks Politics, Presidents, and Future Pandemics. Worth comparing to Birx’s book Silent Invasion.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: ADDED 18 Family Members Diagnosed with Coronavirus after Surprise Party in Texas. ADDED Texas, at Center of New U.S. Coronavirus Surge, Pauses Reopening. CV02↑. Texas Giving Free Face Masks to All Who Undergo State Covid-19 Testing. #AbbottResign Trending Nationwide Wednesday on Twitter for Governor’s Covid-19 Response. A Spring Break Trip to a Mexican Beach Resort Led to 64 Coronavirus Cases in Texas. It's Absolutely Horrifying: Coronavirus Expert Warns of Dire Health Crisis amid Texas Surge, Texas Should Implement Full Lockdown and Social Distancing Measures amid Surge in Coronavirus Cases, Doctor Says*A. Texas Governor Says State Facing Massive COVID-19 Outbreak. Texas Covid-19 Cases Hit All Time Daily High as Houston ftlineHospitals near Capacity, increase in Coronavirus infections prompted governor to tighten public health restrictions after resisting calls to slow reopening. Three U.S. Governors to Quarantine Visitors from States Where COVID-19 Spiking, New York Imposes Travel Restrictions on Visitors from Texas, the Latest Coronavirus Hot Spot, the tables have turned. Texas previously had similar self quarantining requirements for hot spots New York and Louisiana. Multiple Texas Cities and Counties Adopting Mask Orders. Governor Urges Masks but No New Steps as Cases Rise in Texas. Texas Governor Says Current Covid-19 Plan Is A OK Despite Record Highs, Gov. Abbott Says Recent Spike of Covid-19 Cases in Texas Is Unacceptable. Texas Children's Hospital Begins Admitting Adults Because of Spike in Coronavirus Cases. Texas Governor Urges Residents to Stay Home amid Record Number of New Coronavirus Cases. 200615-CV18. [Cartoon, Chart]. Coronavirus in Texas: State Reports Highest Number of Cases in One Day; More Businesses Can Reopen Monday =2=. Texas Antivaxxers Say Covid-19 Contact Tracing Is Government Surveillance. ADDED Texas City Unveils Coronavirus Advisory System at Highest Levels. ADDED Coronavirus Surge Accelerating Across this Texas County.
-*A. Dr Hotez is no stranger to conspiracy theorists attacks from combined antivax, anti contact tracing, and anti lockdown. This latest upsurge in Texas is likely to increase those. COVID19 Meets the Antivaccine Movement.
-B. Christopher Shaw Uses the Results of an Abusive FOIA Request to Intimidate a Scientist CV33. Scientist turned antivaccine activist Christopher Shaw tried to intimidate an Alzheimer's disease expert named Catherine Roe for having withdrawn from an antivaccine crankiest called One Conversation using the results of an abusive FOIA request. Sadly, this is now a common tactic.
CV29.1. Trump Administration Says it Will No Longer Directly Run Covid-19 Testing Sites. HHS Spokesman Michael Caputo Blasts Coronavirus Test Story, Loses Temper on Call with Reporters. Trump Administration Ending Support for 7 Texas Testing Sites as Coronavirus Cases Spike. U.S. Defends Covid Testing Moves in Texas, Four Other States, transitioning 13 coronavirus testing sites in five states, not cutting them =2=. Trump – After Slow the Testing Down Remark – Will End Federal Funding for Testing Sites. 200622-CV04. [Cartoon], GOP Warns Against Ramping down Coronavirus Testing, AP Fact Check: Sober Science Weighs in on Trump’s Virus Take. CV07↑. The US's Failed Coronavirus Response Continues to Snowball – Even as Federal Officials Insist They're Winning the Fight, Dr. Anthony Fauci Tells Congress Parts of U.S. Are Seeing a Disturbing Surge of Coronavirus Infections. Can We Call Trump a Killer.
-A. ADDED: Columnist Charles Blow Issues Reality Check about ‘Killer’ Trump. The CDC Lost Control of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Then the Agency Disappeared. Trump 'Not Withdrawing Support' from Covid-19 Testing Sites. The government will stop directly funding 13 community based Coronavirus testing sites, but the amount of testing will not decrease and the sites should not lose resources, providing federal support in a different way. There is no reason that a locally unresponsive, bulky, parallel system needs to occur when the states could happily take these over, and they happily will. While the transition may have been planned, the move comes as the Coronavirus is surging. Local officials have urged the administration to reconsider.
-B. MORE: [Cartoon]. Trump Administration Grants Funding Extension for Texas Testing Sites =2=. AP Fact Check: Trump’s See No Evil Posture on Coronavirus.
CV30. Methodology: Public Attitudes, Behaviors, and Beliefs Related to COVID-19, Stay at Home Orders, Nonessential Business Closures, and Public Health Guidance – United States, New York City, and Los Angeles, May 5-12, 2020. Most respondents reported that they would feel unsafe if restrictions were lifted at the time of the survey. This is the crux of the problems of research into social dimensions and aspects of biocalamities. This was first posted a month after the close date for information and I did not see it until today. It does not include people who protested lockdown. As far as I can see provides no information to decision makers if slowing, continuation and/or reimposing of: Lockdown, shutdown, shelter in place, stay at home, social distancing, wearing a mask (CV06 CV20), would be accepted or resisted. It is also doubtful that this information will be of use in future parademics. 200423-CV30A Issawi's Law.
-A. Providing useful information can be done it there is previous collection of information, a body a knowledge and expertise before incidents and events, continued global analysis during and after events, and decision makers are practiced at and have sufficient understanding to meaningfully apply the products.
CV30.1. Wrong, but Useful – for Whom. The Politics of Pandemic Modeling. After a tepid initial COVID-19 response, Boris Johnson began encouraging citizens to avoid non essential social contact. Trump followed suit, introducing travel bans and social distancing policies. These responses marked the beginnings of drastic and unprecedented government measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
-A. Five Ways to Ensure that Models Serve Society: A Manifesto$. Mathematical models produce highly uncertain numbers that predict future infections, hospitalizations and deaths under various scenarios. Rather than using models to inform their understanding, political rivals often brandish them to support predetermined agendas. To make sure predictions do not become adjuncts to a political cause, modellers, decision makers and citizens need to establish new social norms. Modellers must not be permitted to project more certainty than their models deserve; and politicians must not be allowed to offload accountability to models of their choosing. Plans are a model of what one hopes will happen, and in that way there are useful as long as one does not depend on hope that it will happen that way.
-B. Quote: No plan survives contact with reality. – Adapted by several from the original Moltke quote.
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