CV01. Protection: Sweden's Experiment Status, CV02. Humor: Who is that Masked Comic, CV03. Information: Africa, Lack of Data, Hidden Pandemic, CV04. Politics: Tulsa Surge + Trump Rally, CV05. Economics: Infectious Disease Consultant, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Disney Cast Worried, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Case Near Me, CV15. Death: Dying at Home, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Helping Elderly, Stubborn Irish, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Bats = Disease, CV19. Technosphere: Making Syringes that May not be Needed, CV19.1. Desperate Science, CV20. Communication: Safe Sex and Social Bubbles, CV26. Environment, One Health: Human Animal Environment Interface, CV27. Learning: Open Schools Despite Risks, CV27.1. Public Money to Private Schools, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Arizona Status, CV29.1. World View of US, CV31. Futuring: Life Before
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CV01. Protection: Sweden Has Become World's Coronavirus Cautionary Tale. Sweden Literally Gained Nothing from Staying Open During Covid-19, Including No Economic Gains. | Sweden Battled Coronavirus Without Lockdowns. An Inquiry into its Pandemic Response Has Just Been Announced, Sweden’s Covid-19 Death Toll Has Surpassed Neighboring Countries. Now the Country Is Investigating. Sweden's Confirmed Covid-19 Cases Surpass 70,000. Sweden's Covid Experiment is Now a Certified Failure. Sweden Stayed Open and More People Died of Covid-19, but the Real Reason May Be Something Darker, the key finding is that individual actions matter. If enough individuals stay home and take precautions when in the community, it can really change the infection curve, and we can’t let up now.
CV02. Humor: Coronavirus II. Funniest Memes That’ll Have You Laughing Through Your Face Mask. Guffawing Through Face Masks: Some Turn to Gallows Humor to Cope with Pandemic. [Cartoon =2=]. Have not used this category very often recently. Most of what would go here end up in other categories.
CV03. Information: In Africa, Lack of Coronavirus Data Raises Fears of Silent Epidemic. When the new coronavirus hit Tanzania in mid April, President John Magufuli called for three days of national prayer to seek God’s protection from the scourge. Barely a month later, he claimed victory over the disease and invited tourists to return to his East African nation. 200612-CV17 -A, 200608-CV29A.
CV04. Politics: Health Official: Trump Rally Likely Source of Virus Surge =2=, which drew thousands of people in late June, along with large protests that accompanied it, likely contributed to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases. Multiple Trump Campaign Staffers Quarantining after Tulsa Rally. Reporter at Trump’s Tulsa Rally Tests Positive for Covid-19. Workers Removed Thousands of Social Distancing Stickers Before Trump’s Tulsa Rally =2=. Oklahoma Is Seeing 100% Positive Test Rate for Covid-19 Following Trump’s Tulsa Rally. Trump Campaign Dictated Whom to Test for Coronavirus in Tulsa.
-A. There will likely be WH backlash over this, but not necessarily immediate or public. Likely that there will be internal conflicts and blame. One noted impact is an aversion to hosting a traditional political convention to proclaim the candidate.
-B. ADDED Houston Officials Cancel Texas GOP's Convention. White House Says Data Unavailable That Indicates Claim Trump Rally Sparked Tulsa Coronavirus Case Surge, it would be more definitive if there was contact tracing of those who attended were linked back to Tulsa, and the touched of outbreaks in home areas. That data is still days away.
CV05. Economics: A Coronavirus Consultant Shares How She Advises Businesses on Reopening. Just because it’s allowed doesn’t mean it’s safe.
CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: We Are Frightened: Disney Cast Members Share Their Anxiety and Anger About the Parks Reopening [Cartoon].
CV12. Personal, Relationships: A business just a couple of miles from me has reported a CV case. I haven’t been there is several days so unlikely I have been exposed, but I have also seen how studious there are about masks, gloves, sanitizer, social distancing. The problem is not that the business has done anything wrong, but that customers can’t be trusted to always be safe, and who knows what employees do away from the work site.
CV15. Death: As Coronavirus Surges, Houston Confronts its Hidden Toll: People Dying at Home. Houston is seeing a spike in residents dying at home, before paramedics can reach them. A growing number are testing positive for COVID-19. Unclear if this is because of overwhelmed medical services, people not calling for help in time, or combination of these and other factors. The Covid-19 Death Rate Isn’t the Whole Story. Deaths Could Hit a New Peak if Faucci Is Correct.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Hello, Neighbor: How an Irish County Approached the Coronavirus Pandemic. Ireland's "cocooning" policy during the coronavirus lockdown asked people over age 70 to stay at home and not to leave for any reason. Suddenly, neighbors and strangers leapt to help them with everything — if the cocooners would let them.
-A. One of the aspects of emergent CV07 behavior is that the precursors were already around, but no on noted how an emergent trend may collide with social norms CV24, narratives CV18, expectations, planning, etc. In this case of Ireland it is probably normal to help the elderly and isolated. What was not considered in that the elderly and isolated are no longer as vulnerable as before and fully expect to be independent.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: The Virus Hunters. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists were searching for potential human pathogens in wild animals. They’ve found thousands. This will not be the seminal article, but by this time it is fairly fixed in popular culture that Bats = Disease. That could lead to mass cullings of bats, further damaging the already wobbly biosphere. ADDED Bats Are Hosts to a Range of Viruses but Don’t Get Sick – Why.
CV19. Technosphere: US Investing $42M to Help Company Ramp up Syringe, Needle Production Ahead of Vaccination Push. No indication if funding for, or planning of a PSA campaign to encourage vaccination (assuming it is safe and effective), or any countering of already circulating antivax messages, What Happens If Some Americans Refuse the Covid-19 Vaccine. With the most recent poll indicating only Half of Americans Would Get a Covid-19 Vaccine, which is below what is needed for herd immunity for a vaccine that is 70% effective =2= =3= =A=. Best information available at this time indicate that a CV vaccine will be less that 70% effective, with short duration of immunity, and may require boosters or creation of a new vaccine every few months. The neglect of human factors and emphasis of technological solutions and clinical aspects of biocalamity is a constant problem in parademic that delays success and effective behaviors.
-A. In addition in light of indicators of gubergenic corruption and favoritism it is likely that there will be questions why a particular company was selected to make syringes and needles, especially in light of microneedle patch technology, 200628-CV18.
-*B. ADDED The Public’s Role in COVID-19 Vaccination: Planning Recommendations Informed by Design Thinking and the Social, Behavioral, and Communication Sciences #Document. This report considers human factors in relation to future vaccines against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), drawing on insights from design thinking and the social, behavioral, and communication sciences. It provides recommendations – directed to both US policymakers and practitioners, as well as nontraditional partners new to public health’s mission of vaccination – on how to advance public understanding of, access to, and acceptance of vaccines that protect against COVID-19. Cross Cutting Recommendation: Put People at the Center of a Revolutionary SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Enterprise. 1) Understand and Inform Public Expectations about Vaccine Benefits, Risks, and Supply. 2) Earn the Public’s Confidence that Vaccine Allocation and Availability Are Evenhanded. 3) Make Vaccination Available in Safe, Familiar, and Convenient Places. 4) Communicate in Meaningful, Relevant, and Personal Terms, Crowding Out Misinformation. 5) Establish Independent Representative Bodies to Instill Public Ownership of the Vaccination Program. Have only skimmed this but the information is good. Has anticipated some problems, has a useful identification of the problems. Recommendations are useable. However, it is not workable as policymakers have so far not demonstrated any inclination to take expert advice (much less comprehend the situation), and the mechanisms for crisis communication have been so eroded that they will need to be rebuilt. Overall this is already to late. [Meme].
CV19.1. Desperation Science Slows the Hunt for Coronavirus Drugs. Desperate to solve the deadly conundrum of COVID-19, the world is clamoring for fast answers and solutions from a research system not built for haste. Why the Fight over a Coronavirus Vaccine Will Be Intense, Irrational and Even Nasty, good summation of many of the social factors raised in parademic that will hinder containment and control of CV.
CV20. Communication: Starting a Covid-19 Social Bubble. How Safe Sex Communication Skills Can Help. Sex educators and sexologists have some advice for safe coronavirus socializing. Just like in the bedroom, over communicate about your needs and seek consent. If CV does become a mass human extinction event it may be that the only survivors may be that one sector of those who participate in atypical sexual relations – ones that emphasize mutual consent, communication, safety – are the majority of the survivors.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Zoonoses: Beyond the Human - Animal - Environment Interface. New zoonotic diseases are emerging and re-emerging at an exponentially increasing rate. DR Congo has had 11 Ebola virus outbreaks since the 1970s, but six have occurred in the past decade. Coronavirus infections are also emerging more frequently: from SARS, to MERS, and now COVID-19. Not all zoonotic diseases become pandemics, but most pandemics are caused by zoonoses and they have become characteristic of the Anthropocene era.
-A. Intensive livestock farming and agriculture, international trade of exotic animals, and increased human encroachment into wildlife habitats, alongside international travel networks and urbanisation, have disrupted the human - animal - environment interface. Pathogens have always spilled over from animals to humans, but exponential human population growth and exploitation of the environment makes spillover more likely, and consequential to consider these diseases and their disruption of societies.
CV27. Learning: Pence Says CDC Will Revise School Reopening Guidelines after Trump Complained They Were Too Tough =2= =3= =4= =5=, with the usual threats of cutting funds. Not an effective threat as it has been made before and did not happen, and schools already don’t have enough money to normal operations, much less under conditions of a pandemic. 200706-CV27. One solution is to physically open schools, but that does not mean that students will go, or they can be sent home immediately because the school cannot guarantee their safety.
-A‡. Top Pediatrician Says States Shouldn't Force Schools to Reopen If Virus Is Surging. Reopening Schools Was Just an Afterthought. With No End in Sight to the Coronavirus, Some Teachers Are Retiring Rather Than Go Back to School. Navy SEAL Who Oversaw Bin Laden Raid Warns America's Biggest National Security Issue Is K-12 Education. Cuomo Slams Trump: School Reopenings Are a State Decision, but in 2017 Trump ordered DeVos that states have control of education. Ron Klain Says the Trump Administration Pressuring Schools to Reopen this Fall Despite CDC Guidance Is De Ja Vu All over Again to What Happened in April Video. As Coronavirus Cases Surge, Betsy DeVos Compares Risk of Returning to School to Riding a Rocket Ship, did she mention the detail that the rocket is made by people who have never built one, that in the early days most rockets blew up, and that even today a significant percentage of launches fail. Trump Scorns Science – and Wants His Scientists to Do the Same.
-B. ADDED Schools Plan Reopening amid Conflicting Coronavirus Guidelines. Agencies, researchers, and advocacy groups have weighed in on returning to school during the coronavirus outbreak, but the guidance sometimes conflicts. School Reopening Plans Have Become the Latest COVID-19 Political Football, the various strategies states and districts have adopted to try to safely reopen after the coronavirus shut down. CDC Won't Revise School Opening Guidelines after Trump Criticism =2=. [Cartoon]. I’m an Epidemiologist and a Dad. Here’s Why I Think Schools Should Reopen. Schools or Bars. Opening Classrooms May Mean Hard Choices. Many parents, educators, doctors and economists want the same thing. But getting children back to school safely could mean keeping high risk spots like bars and gyms closed. When it Comes to Reopening Schools, the Devil's in the Details, Educators Say.
CV27.1. States Sue Education Department over Allocation of Pandemic Funds to Schools. 200624-CV27A.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Why Arizona Is Suffering the Worst Covid-19 Outbreak in the US. Arizona Closes Bars, Gyms and Other Businesses after Brutal Increase in Covid-19 Cases. Arizona Closes Movie Theaters, Bars, Nightclubs Due to Surge in COVID-19 Cases. Arizona’s Rules for Rationing Healthcare in the Covid-19 Pandemic Should Terrify You. Arizona Asks for 500 Additional Medical Personnel amid Spike in Virus Cases. Arizona Is Now No. 1 in the World for Coronavirus but Some Arizonans Say It's No Big Deal. 200626-CV08.1B. 200706-CV28.1. Not all items related to the search string “Arizona” are noted here, just the most recent ones that have a relation to leadership. This is true of several topics CV30.
-A. ADDED Tucson Coronavirus Patients Being Transferred to Phoenix, Out of State. Arizona Restaurants Told to Cut to Half Capacity. Phoenix ER Doctor: White House Task Force Wrong About Arizona COVID-19 Cases.
CV29.1. WH's McEnany: The World Is Looking at Us as a Leader on Pandemic. In a way, the world is looking at the U.S. "as a leader" on the pandemic, but probably not in the way intended. Trudeau Led His Country out of a Pandemic While Trump's Lack of Leadership Leaves the US in Deep Crisis. This Chart Should Be Getting Trump's Attention
CV31. Futuring: [Cartoon].
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