CV01. Protection: Fear of Social Isolation, CV01.1. Microwaving Books, CV03. Information: Cancelled Panemic Research, CV04. Politics: Catalonia Locklock Independence, CV11. Exploitation: If Clinton was in Charge, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Spain, Hero Applause, CV14. Uncategorized, Miscellaneous: Fireworks, CV15. Death: Unburied Left on Street, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Continued Acceleration, Atypical 4th of July, CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Surgeon General Against Masks, CV19. Technosphere: Plexiglass, CV19.1. Google Maps Hot Spots, CV20. Communication: Why Crisis Communication Has Failed, CV22. Longue Duree: Plague Making the Rich Richer, CV22.1. How Founders of US Would have Handled Pandemic, CV24. Norms: Perception Beats Facts, CV25. Movement: Guidelines for Air Travel, CV26. Environment, One Health: Blue Marble Health, CV27. Learning: Zika Testing Mistakes, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Brazil Mirroring US, CV32. Anthromes: Prisons, CV33. Legal: California, Enforcing Enforcement
PDN Introduction.
CV01. Protection: Why Some Young People Fear Social Isolation More Than COVID-19.
CV01.1. PSA: Please Stop Microwaving Your Books to Get Rid of Coronavirus.
CV03. Information: Did Dr. Fauci Say NIH Was Told to Cancel Grant for Coronavirus Emergence Research.
CV04. Politics: Catalonia Curbs Movement of 200,000 People after New Coronavirus Outbreaks. This is probably a legitimate public health move to limit growth of CV, but it may also be a way to express some independence from Spain.
CV11. Exploitation: Hillary Clinton on Trump's Handling of the Coronavirus: I Would Have Done a Better Job. Though this is exploiting Trump’s failures, the reverse would also be true. Trump would undoubtedly be doing the same fear mongering as he did with Ebola, and with a support base of those in congress, and in state government could easily mounted a campaign of sabotage, bringing up the same issues of anti mask, anti science, antivax, big government spending of socialism. Even if Clinton’s administration was far more effective in mitigation, no one would know what happened under Trump and he could claim, “I will do a better job” and then be elected in 2020. His sadim touch would have likely exacerbate the situation, but now blame could be deflected blame onto the prior administration, possibly with a much stronger power base, less resistence from opposition, and the big advantage that there may have been more global cooperation to develop a vaccine and more likely one would be available soon that he (or a competent tyrant) could take credit for.
CV12. Personal, Relationships: Applause: Reflections on “The Plague” and Being a Doctor in a Pandemic. The COVID-19 lockdown is today in its fifth week. In my country, Spain, these measures have been especially severe. I am confined to my house despite being a physician, since at this moment I have no practice, while my two sons and my wife, also physicians, are undertaking their clinical activities at their respective hospitals. Every day at 8 pm I hear the applause dedicated to doctors and health workers for their extraordinary efforts in this crisis. So far, the neighborhood has not missed a single day.
-A. However, I have not applauded. I am not sure the applause even convinces me of anything. Instead, I have an uneasy feeling when I hear the news broadcast: “our physicians, those heroes”, and “they risk their lives for us”. Every evening as I hear cheers and applause from the balconies. I wonder if I have the right to feel indifference, bordering on condescension. That is why I asked my wife how the applause makes her feel. Ambivalence, she responds, they are really screams of despair. Sometimes she is moved, but more often the feeling is neutral. This still did not reassure me completely. Then I reread Albert Camus’ work The Plague,1 and it helped me to clarify some of my thoughts and feelings
CV14. Uncategorized, Miscellaneous: Still no idea what fireworks represent this day. Politically correct, Coping, Catharsis, Risk taking, Anger expression, Doing something normal, Summer fire festivals, Simply wanting to blow up something. [Cartoon =2= =3=] Man Doing Whippet While Setting off M-80 in Woods Behind Hardee’s Takes Moment to Reflect on How Promise of Freedom Yet Unfulfilled CV02. Police Department Celebrates Fourth of July by Using Fireworks for Crowd Control note they are wearing masks CV02. Two Reasons Why You're Hearing So Many Fireworks. What’s Behind the Recent Increase in Reports of Fireworks CV02. [ADDED Cartoon =2=]. ADDED 2020 Salute to America Fireworks Cap Celebration.
CV15. Death: Family Leaves Relative’s Coffin in Bolivian Street as City Struggles to Bury Covid Victims. This problem is in part because people will not consider other means and associated rituals of disposing of the dead, resisting mass burial, cremation, sterilizing bodies, using other than traditional coffins. I don’t know the current attitudes in the US, but there is a back up of bodies, as there are areas that likewise reject other than the “proper way”.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: The Coronavirus Mess in the U.S. Will Only Get Worse. It took two months for the U.S. to record its first 50,000 cases of COVID-19. It took two months for the U.S. to record its first 50,000 cases of COVID-19. Now, as it gallops toward three million cases, the numbers are increasing at a rate of 50,000 cases a day and, if the current trends continue, it will soon be 100,000 cases daily.
-A. It’s not the kind of Fourth of July fireworks anyone hoped for, but as Americans fan out across the country for the weekend, Fourth of July Celebrations Increase Risk of Covid-19 Superspreader Events =2=, we can fully expect the outbreak to accelerate into logarithmic growth. US Holiday Weekend Adds to Virus Worries as Case Counts Grow =2= =3= =4= =5=. Californians Celebrate July 4 with Virtual Parades, Masks, Virus Pushes Quirky Annual Parade Online. In Troubled Times: Independence Day in a Land of Confusion. Health Officials Fear Virus Surge after July 4 Celebrations. 200703-CV01.
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: US Surgeon General Jerome Adams Said He Is Against a Nationwide Mask Mandate Because it Would Be Counterproductive and Cause Rebellion CV23.
CV19. Technosphere: Business As Usual During the Pandemic, this Time Through Plexiglass. Demand for plexiglass has skyrocketed due to the coronavirus as businesses worldwide install protective barriers.
CV19.1. Google Maps Releases New Features to Help People Navigate Coronavirus Hot Spots. Well that did not take long 200701-25.
CV20. Communication: Why So Much COVID=19 Crisis Communication Has Failed. As the creator of the “Risk = Hazard + Outrage” formula for risk communication, Dr. Peter M. Sandman is one of the preeminent risk communication speakers and consultants.
-A. During the pre crisis phase, the temptation to over reassure is similarly hard to resist for completely different reasons. People are complacent; they’re either unaware of the possible crisis looming over them or they have shrugged it off as too unlikely to be worth worrying about. Instead of being worried about panicking people, you’re worried that you’ll be criticized, ignored, or even mocked if you try to warn them. Worse yet, the crisis may fizzle and prove your critics right.
-B. I don’t have the time to locate it in the Parademic Database, but there was a project I participated in the explored Crisis Communication Planning Failures that was very different from this article in perspective. If anyone is interested I will take the time to locate it.
CV22. Longue Duree: How the Black Death Made the Rich Richer CV05. When a third of Europe’s population was lost, wealth concentrated into tiny groups. Could Covid-19 trigger something similar. Companies like Amazon are already megacorporations, but could Covid-19 make them even richer and more powerful. The usual narrative is the creation of the middle class, which is true, but the middle class was also middle management that supported the new rich leisure class – who having less exposure to those who are impoverished would have less exposure to pathogens – and dependent on the patronage of the rich for lucrative positions. It is also likely that being rich the could purchase things and land at lower cost and sell them for more later.
CV22.1. Coronavirus plus July Fourth Raises a Question: What Would George Washington Do. With states and cities nationwide mulling the requiring of masks in public, angry residents and business owners claim these restrictions violate the American idea of freedom. These measures clearly do involve hardships and exceed the normal restraints citizens expect from their governments in liberal democracies, but are they truly an affront to liberty.
-A. The extensive body of writings, constitutional arguments and lived experience of the American pioneers of freedom and self government, as well as those who inspired them, make clear that they are not. The founders endowed us with a system to handle Covid-19 responsibly. They also left us a record of how they managed public health crises. A Call for a Declaration of Interdependence. COVID-19: One of the Deadliest Wars in American History.
CV24. Norms: Covid-19 Has Proved Out One Predictable Part of Human Nature. When scientific advice presents a picture that threatens someone’s perceived interests or ideological worldview. In practice, it turns out that one’s political, religious or ethnic identity quite effectively predicts one’s willingness to accept expertise on any given politicized issue. Motivated reasoning is what social scientists call the process of deciding what evidence to accept based on the conclusion one prefers. Belief trumps reality =2=.
CV25. Movement: US Issues Guidelines but No New Rules for Safe Air Travel.
CV26. Environment, One Health: #Book Poverty and the Impact of COVID-19: The Blue Marble Health Approach [Cover]. While COVID-19 has ravaged global economies and changed the way of life for us all, the disease has a disproportionately devastating impact on poorer communities. For the millions without a job because of community shut downs, decisions about basic necessities and the fear of healthcare costs for those diagnosed with the novel coronavirus become critical. The book introduces a new global paradigm known as Blue Marble Health [Cover], that poor people living in wealthy countries account for most of the world's poverty related illness. By crafting public policy and relying on global partnerships to control or eliminate some of the world's worst poverty related illnesses, it is possible to eliminate life threatening disease while at the same time creating unprecedented opportunities for science and diplomacy. Coronavirus Mortality in Italy Is Highest among Poor.
CV27. Learning: Lessons Unlearned: Four Years Before the CDC Fumbled Covid-19 Testing, the Agency Made Some of the Same Mistakes with Zika. Some of these in the Parademic Database 2015-16.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Coronavirus, Spreading in Brazil's Interior, Threatens to Boomerang Back to Major Cities. Brazil Military Hand out Masks to Protect Isolated Amazon Tribes. Indigenous Leaders Angry about Coronavirus Risk from Brazilian Military Visit.
-A. Bolsonaro, Others Shun Masks at July 4 Celebration in Brazil. On Friday he vetoed clauses of new legislation that would have required Brazilians to wear masks at churches, schools, shops, factories and private gatherings, but approved their obligatory use on the street and public transport. Bolsonaro sent his well wishes on the U.S. holiday: I also want to greet my friend @realDonaldTrump for the courageous speech he delivered yesterday. Those were the words of a great statesman. May the legacy and the values of the Founders of this great nation endure and be kept from the evil intentions of radicals.
CV32. Anthromes: Prisons in California Are Coronavirus Hotbeds Despite Billions Spent [Cartoon =A= =2=]. Will the Coronavirus Make Us Rethink Mass Incarceration. Prison Outbreak Leads to Virus Surge in St. Francois County. This has been reported before in PDN, America’s Jails and Prisons Are Reporting Huge Coronavirus Outbreaks.
CV33. Legal: Calif Gov Warns Local Officials on Enforcement. Warning local elected officials that they risk losing state funding if they don’t enforce health orders as the coronavirus pandemic worsens. Recently reopened bars [ADDED Cartoon =2=], indoor restaurant dining and other indoor entertainment venues were ordered closed in those counties for at least three weeks. About 200 state inspectors fanned out Friday to look for violators over the long Fourth of July weekend. The new enforcement strike teams issued seven citations in their first day of operation.
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