CV01. Protection: Tipping Point, CV02. Humor: Hymn to Empty Shelves, CV03. Information: Second Hump, CV05. Economics: Is Contain & Control Worse than the Disease, CV06. Linguistics: Incantations, CV07. Emergence: Visit the Farm, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Disinfecting Photos, CV11. Exploitation: Hate, CV15. Death: Arizona, Refrigeration, CV15.1. India, Burial by Dozer, CV15.2. Mexico, Exhumation, CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Auctioning Meds, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: 5G Masks, CV19. Technosphere: Robot Butchers, CV20. Communication: Public Health Fact and Opinion, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Climate Conflict, CV24. Norms: Long Pandemic, CV27. Learning: Cognitive Skills for Social Distance, CV28. Logistics: AirBus Cargo, CV30. Methodology: Protest and Natural Law
PDN Introduction.
CV01. Protection: Instability is also called a tipping point 200517-1, not just of CV, but all the social conditions that have allowed the conflagration of CV to spread. Will the choices be made to trend toward stable [Chart], or continue toward cascading failure. Expert Warns the US Is Approaching One of the Most Unstable Times in the History of Our Country. ADDED Covid-19 Surge Pushes US Toward Deadly Cliff.
CV02. Humor: Coronavirus: Violinists Play Titanic Hymn in Front of Empty Toilet Paper Aisle Video CV09. [Poster] CV06↓.
CV03. Information: Make America Sick Again. We are still in the first wave of COVID-19, but the US is seeing a second hump to that wave. We are having the highest number of new cases right now, five months into this pandemic. A few months ago we hoped that by July we would start to see the tail end of this first wave, while we anxiously await a possible second wave in the fall, but instead we are seeing a surge. 200706-CV06.
-A. It’s always challenging to clearly see what is going when we are still in the middle of this pandemic, and our information is always a couple of weeks behind reality. But infectious disease experts and epidemiologists are seeing some patterns and are all expressing the same concerns. First, part of what we are seeing is just the natural course of this pandemic. In the US it largely started in urban centers with airports. For this reason they were hit early and hard, while rural America was largely unscathed.
-B. The wave has moved through those urban centers into the rest of the US. Part of the problem is that, if you look at pooled US data it looked in May and into June that the death toll was declining and new cases were also declining. This created the false impression that, as a country, we were seeing the end of the first wave and we could start opening up. Plus there were legitimate concerns about the effect on the economy of prolonged shutdown, and understandably people were getting lockdown fatigue. But the total US numbers did not tell the full story. The illusion that the first wave was winding down had its effect. Now the event to data gap has caught up: Trump’s Top Covid Adviser: Deaths Will Soon Start to Rise, Coronavirus Deaths Take a Long Expected Turn for the Worse CV15.
CV05. Economics: Is the Covid-19 Pandemic Cure Really Worse than the Disease. Here’s What Our Research Found. By the end of 2020, public health measures to mitigate COVID-19, including shelter in place orders, school and business closures, social distancing and face mask recommendations, would save between 900,000 and 2.7 million lives in the U.S. The economic downturn and loss of income from shelter in place measures and other restrictions on economic activity could contribute to between 50,400 and 323,000 deaths, based on an economic decline of 8%-14%. Counting lives alone, we conclude that the public health measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 are justified and in the best interest of our society. In the main when people speak of draconian measure being worse than the disease they mean economics. At this time the financial costs are not quantified and subject to debate and opinion about the financial value of a life.
CV06. Linguistics: AP Fact Check: If He’s Said it Once, He’s Said it 100 Times. This is known as the illusion of truth effect, that repetition of believing in a desired outcome will result in that outcome. This type of logic (magical thinking) is found is expressed in various forms in sales motivation talks =2= =3= to maintain persistence in belief. CV02↑.
CV07. Emergence: Small Farms Find Creative Ways to Attract Visitors During the Coronavirus Pandemic, from curbside produce pickup to reservation only classes, farms are adapting to make ends meet
CV09. Arts, Creativity: Start with a Polaroid, Then Add Disinfectant. Here’s the Result. A quarantined photographer makes the most of the harsh materials at hand to create a fragile portrait of life in a pandemic.
CV11. Exploitation: Hateful Extremists Have Been Exploiting the Current Pandemic.
CV15. Death: Arizona County Requests Refrigerated Trucks as Morgues Hit 97 Percent Capacity During Pandemic. 200708-CV29. Currently there are sufficient trucks to meet the need, but some may begin to wonder if the refrigerated truck making deliveries to their grocery store was returned to its normal service. That might violate Kosher, Halal and Vegan food rules.
CV15.1. India Disrespectful Disposal of Covid-19 Bodies Triggers Outrage in Andhra Pradesh. 200709-CV15.
CV15.2. Bodies Are Being Exhumed in Mexico to Make Room for Coronavirus Deaths 200623-CV29. CV28.
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Bill Gates Calls for Covid-19 Meds to Go to People Who Need Them, Not Highest Bidder CV05 CV10 CV16. This is an articulation of a problem of unequal access, and of a belief that de facto behavior opposes, but unknown how this widely this contrary belief is held, and if there is ADDED cognitive dissonance =2= by those who can afford black market prices.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Fact Check: Metal Strip in Medical Masks Is Not a 5G Antenna, 200622-CV23.
CV19. Technosphere: Devolver Made a Free Game about a Canceled Game Convention CV08.
CV19.1. Tyson Foods Is Ramping up Development of Robots That Can Cut Meat in Response to Coronavirus Outbreaks in Meatpacking Plants. 200709-CV28. ADDED U.S. Seafood Workers Fight Unsafe Job Conditions amid Pandemic.
CV20. Communication: Public Health Professionals Should Be Saying this about the
Public’s Covid-19 Risk Choices. I have watched with dismay as public health professionals failed abysmally to “stay in their lane” when expressing opinions about the public’s COVID-19 risk choices – especially vis à vis demonstrations against state lockdown policies and the police murder of George Floyd. So when asked what I thought they should be saying, I drafted this short list of message points. 1) The COVID-19 virus doesn’t care about your motives. What you do is as safe or dangerous as it is, regardless of why you do it. 2) Public health professionals communicate safe or dangerous, and we haven’t done it very well. 3) When a COVID-19 risk is worth taking and when it’s foolish is not a public health question or a science question. 4) Racial inequality is an important public health issue. Economic privation is an important public health issue. A public health professional should not state that one is more important than the other. 5) For the foreseeable future, our society will be living with the COVID-19 virus. Some priorities are obvious, other questions are debatable. Is one making a risk choice for just oneself, or for others.
CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Roadmap for Studying Link between Climate and Armed Conflict. Environmental change is linked to spill over of pandemic diseases, and aggravate the effects – along with poverty, unequal political access, environmental related diseases, forced migrations, famines. War aggravates environmental change and all the other areas listed.
CV24. Norms: Settling in for the Long Pandemic. No longer contain and control, but endure.
CV27. Learning: Lower Cognitive Ability Linked to non Compliance with Social Distancing Guidelines During the Coronavirus Outbreak. This headline is misleading and is not exactly in agreement with the content of the article or the original paper. Whether true or not it is generally not a good idea to insult a whole group of people by calling them stupid, and fits the stereotype of the Trump supporter. There could be backlash from this. [Cartoon]. We’re Trying to Get People to Wear Masks the Wrong Way a new behavior must first ascend to the status of a social norm CV24.
CV28. Logistics: A380's Seats Pulled out for Covid-19 Missions. Portuguese charter operator Hi Fly has removed most of the seats from its sole A380 in order to make way for more cargo, making it the world's first A380 to be converted for freight. With increasing temperatures and environmental change it may eventually be that travel on the ocean will become too risky and there may need to be cargo submarines. Same possibly for aircraft, where air turbulence may change so fast and extreme that long range cargo shipment may require low orbit craft CV31.
CV30. Methodology: Whatever Their Intent, Protests Aren't Exempt from the Laws of Nature. The study purports to show that the protests in America’s streets have had no impact on infection rates across more than 300 cities. The study compares a set of cities where protests took place to a control group of cities that experienced no protests. This might be a valuable approach, but when one looks at the control cities, it is easy to find that some are mislabeled. For example a control group city in which protests didn’t occur, but a cursory Google search reveals protests involving hundreds of people did take place there during the time frame of the study’s. If mistakes can be identified this easily, one questions the credibility of the study.
-A. An even larger issue is that many of the cities included as controls are in the same metropolitan areas as cities that are part of the group where protests occurred. As anyone who has visited a large American city knows, people easily and regularly cross municipal lines. Protestors were as likely to come to a demonstration from any number of surrounding locations — not just where the event took place. Because protests were widespread, and COVID-19 cases were growing fairly rapidly around the country at the time, it is simply not credible to think a viable control group could be created.
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