CV Pandemic Daily Notes 200713

CV01. Protection: OSHA Fail, CV01.1. Framing Fauci, CV02. Humor: Insights of Cartoons, CV03. Information: Disinformation Goals, CV04. Politics: Catalonia Spaining Distance, CV05. Economics: Latin America, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Cinema Mortality, CV11. Exploitation: Sex for Rent, CV13. Outliers: Synchronicity Comets, CV15. Death: Counting Graves, CV15.1. Grief Ripple Effect, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Misinformation, CV19. Technosphere: Virtual Sex, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Collaboration, CV22. Longue Duree: Blitz Spirit, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: National Guard Support, CV23.1. Extremists Fever. CV26. Environment, One Health: Air Pollution, CV27. Learning: California, School Shutdown, CV27.1. Successful School Openings, CV27.2. Misleading about School Safety, DeVos, CV30. Methodology: Rapid Social Change

PDN Introduction.

CV01. Protection: The federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Workers Is Toothless on Covid-19. Most American workers aren’t unionized, while unions have the advantage of an army of union lawyers to advocate on their behalf. Most workers depend on state and federal authorities to enforce laws about workplace safety. And right now, they’re largely on their own. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has taken a laissez faire approach to the pandemic – issuing non binding guidelines on keeping workers safe that bear few consequences for employers who break them. Sounds like EPA in regards to the environment. ADDED G.A.O.: Trump Boosts Deregulation by Undervaluing Cost of Climate Change ^CV26.

            -A. ADDED: G.A.O.: Trump Boosts Deregulation by Undervaluing Cost of Climate Change ^CV26, 200726-CV24.            

            -B. MORE: A Small Federal Agency Focused on Preventing Industrial Disasters Is on Life Support. Trump Wants it Gone. The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is without enough voting members, and its investigations are stuck in limbo.

            CV01.1. Speaking of agencies doing the exact opposite of what they are supposed to do, Trump Administration Plants 137,000 Corpses in Fauci’s Bed to Frame Him for Coronavirus Deaths ^CV02. | Trump Attacked Dr Fauci's Advice and Boasted of Ignoring Government Experts in His Coronavirus Response. Fauci Says Partisanship Is Hurting US Response to Covid-19. Fauci Conspicuously Stops Doing TV Interviews as White House Moves to Reopen Economy. Fauci Says Reputation for Speaking the Truth May Be Why He's on TV Less =2=, this may create desirable behavior on the part of those outside government, which is supposed to be sharing valid information =2=, and may get gubergenic to fire him so he can speak freely. Fauci on Trump Claim That 99 Percent of Covid-19 Cases Are Harmless: Obviously Not. Dr. Fauci: No Reason to Be Wearing a Mask, an old video of Dr. Anthony Fauci saying that people don’t need to wear face masks was taken out of context. The White House Made a List of All the Times Fauci ‘Has Been Wrong’ on the Coronavirus =2= =3=. Why Fauci Should Quit, it is time to quit government. Indeed, resigning might be the best thing he can do for the country's public health – not to mention his own dignity. White House Goes Public with Attacks on Fauci, Top White House Aide Shares Cartoon Mocking Fauci =3= =4=. White House Turns on Fauci as Trump Minimizes Virus Spike. The President Is Trading Dr. Fauci for the Ex Host of Love Connection. Can Trump Fire Fauci. Technically, No. America Shuts down Again – Choosing Reality over Trump's False Claims. 200707-CV15, 200513-CV01.

            -A. Fauci Will Not Lie: Politicians, Federal Officials and Celebrities Rally Behind the Trusted Voice of Coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci Says U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Surging Because Nation Didn't Totally Shut Down. CDC Director Robert Redfield: If Everyone Wore a Mask for Next 6 Weeks We Could Drive Pandemic Into the Ground. ADDED =2= 200714-CV01.1A ^C↓.

            -B. ADDED Lindsey Graham Defends Dr. Fauci, Says Any Effort to Undermine Him Is Counterproductive. Testing Czar Says 'None of Us Lie' after Trump Retweets Game Show Host's Baseless Covid-19 Conspiracy. Fauci Spat Illustrates What Some Fear Is a Directionless White House. Biden Campaign Slams White House Attacks on Fauci as Disgusting. Trump Says He Likes Fauci 'Personally' after Promoting Tweet, Without Evidence, Attacking 'Lying' Doctors. Fauci Back at the White House, a Day After Trump Aides Tried to Undermine Him. With Fauci, Trump Has Picked a Fight He Can't Win. Fauci: Young People Have Societal Responsibility to Avoid Covid Infection. Fauci: I Think You Can Trust Me on My Track Record. What’s next for Anthony Fauci, If the White House Continues to Sour on Him. [Cartoon].

            -C. ADDED White House Tells Hospitals to Bypass CDC on Covid-19 Data Reporting, the move comes amid concerns that the White House has been sidelining the CDC – CDC Director Says Trump, Pence Should Wear Masks to Set Example ^A↑– and after Trump administration officials attacked Anthony Fauci. HHS Confirms Coronavirus Hospital Data Will Now Be Sent to DC Instead of CDC. HHS is not able to process the data unless it takes the analysis department from CDC =2=. During any transition like this data will be lost (sometimes in total), damaged, and the chances of that happening increase with the less time to prepare for transferring data and data streams. There is also the possibility of cyber security attacks, and data manipulation (not that there is any evidence of gubergenic ever doing that), and it could beeven harder to access for public health analysis and decisions. Former CDC Directors: Trump Has Politicized Science More than Any past President. Fauci’s Strategy for Effective Public Health Advocacy: You Cannot Be Ideological. The CDC Has Always Been an Apolitical Island. That's Left it Defenseless Against Trump. Is Fauci a “Deep State” Doctor? The Conspiracy Theory That Is Sickening America. White House Lets Trade Adviser Publicly Attack Fauci after Insisting There Was No Effort to Undermine Him.

            -D‡. Former CDC Directors: Trump Has Politicized Science More than Any past President. Fauci’s Strategy for Effective Public Health Advocacy: You Cannot Be Ideological. The CDC Has Always Been an Apolitical Island. That's Left it Defenseless Against Trump. Is Fauci a Deep State Doctor. The Conspiracy Theory That Is Sickening America. White House Lets Trade Adviser Publicly Attack Fauci after Insisting There Was No Effort to Undermine Him.

            -E. MORE: Maryland's GOP Governor Publishes a Scathing Indictment of Trump's Coronavirus Response. Dr. Anthony Fauci Moves Forward – Even If the White House Doesn’t Want Him To. The White House’s Cold War Against Anthony Fauci Has Suddenly Gotten Very Hot. [Cartoon].

CV02. Humor: I’ve played with the idea of using cartoons and memes to convey interpretations and responses to a biocalamity before with 2014Ebola =2=. That idea did not work out quite as intended. It did give perspectives of those in the warm (panic) zone of the US, but I did not understand the humor of West Africa, where understanding humor would have lead to insight about the behavior or people in the Hot Zone. This is one reason I included Humor as in category in the US Hot Zone [Cartoon]. 1) Natural Selection ^CV04 [Cartoon =A=]. 2) Reopen Schools ^CV27 [Cartoon =2=]. 3) Stay at Home ^CV08 [Cartoonn ]. 4) Work from Home ^CV07 [Cartoon =A= =B=]. 5) Social Distance ^CV01 [Cartoon]. 6) Stress ^CV17 [Cartoon]. 7) Social Bubble ^CV24 [Cartoon]. 8) Internet ^CV20 [Cartoon =A=]. 9) Denial [Cartoon]. 10) Hoarding ^CV22 [Cartoon].

            -A. It was my opinion that categories blurred during disasters. I now speculate that categories were always blurred, but that disasters reveals that borders and separations of any type are imagineries and social constructs that only exist because of social agreements, 200712-30. These labels of categories, ways of organization =2=, what is considered to be part of a set and connection with other sets, taxonomies, and what is not even considered, can be very insightful, and may explain human conflict (us them) ^CV23. [Cartoon].

            -B. For the CV parademic I put coping under humor, ignore hard science clinical information about disease and/or environmental, call conflict polemic, focus on learning instead of institutionalized education. Insisting on a priori categories can be fatal in a biocalamity, not necessarily because the categories are wrong, but because of what may be excluded and interpreted incorrectly. [Chart]: how many squares in total; shapes that can be combined to make the shapes already on the chart; vertical, horizontal, diagonal; can all or some be combined to make a single square; sub categorize, angles that are green; one that if combined would make purple; how many square or lines in total; make the shapes into an animal.

            -C. Quote: I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. – Dr. Seuss

CV03. Information: A Jet Ski Vacation During the Coronavirus Lockdown. Online Liars Want to Make You Mad at Politicians ^CV18↓. We already know coronavirus is affecting the nuts and bolts of democracy, that is, real world elections. Staging an election runs the risk of exacerbating disease transmission as people line up to vote in person or election workers interact with voters. By mid June, the nonprofit International Foundation for Electoral Systems recorded 106 postponed election events in 61 countries and eight territories because of COVID-19 ^CV04. With countries like the United States slated to hold consequential elections this year, online COVID-19 misinformation will likely continue to add another layer of uncertainty ^CV17. 200625-CV03.1. Covid-19 Disinformation Is on the Rise: Here’s What We Know ^CV23. How Social Media Misinformation Wins – Even If You Don't Believe It.

CV04. Politics: Catalan Chief Defies Judge Who Rejected Lockdown, Sowing Confusion. Catalan Leader Calls on Citizens to Defy Judge on Confinement Refusal. Contrasts with US where resisting social distancing is opposing government, here following social distancing is defiance. 200704-CV04.

            -A. MORE: Millions of Catalans Urged to Stay Home as Coronavirus Cases Jump. Catalan Separatists Rally amid Coronavirus Crisis in Spain. This year’s small, well spaced rallies were organized to start at the same time across the region, with people clapping in unison and chanting “liberty” through face masks while staying several meters away from each other in public squares and open spaces.

CV05. Economics: Disease of the Rich, Killer of the Poor. How Covid-19 brought Latin America to its knees

CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: The Future of Film: Can Cinema Survive Covid-19.

CV11. Exploitation: I Had No Choice: Sex for Rent Rises with Coronavirus Poverty.

CV13. Outliers: Comet Neowise and Asteroid Approaching Earth Are Signs of Apocalypse, Crackpot YouTube Preacher Warns. Comets Foretell Doom. The Historical Record. Comet of Doom. [Poster].

CV15. Death: Counting the Burials: African Nations Scramble to Track Covid-19. Long after the funding for his project was frozen, Bilal Endris has kept a lonely watch over cemeteries in Ethiopia's capital by slipping cash to gravediggers to alert his team to any sudden spikes in burials.

            CV15.1. About Nine Family Members to Suffer Grief from Every Covid-19 Fatality.

CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Misinformation Narratives about COVID-19 and the Real Problems We Have to Worry About ^CV03↑.

CV19. Technosphere: Cybersex, Erotic Tech and Virtual Intimacy Are on the Rise During Covid-19 ^CV12.

CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: [Cartoon]

CV22. Longue Duree: Why Londoners in the Blitz Accepted Face Masks to Prevent Infection – Unlike Today’s Objectors. As COVID-19 spread in Britain, journalists and politicians took to comparing the pandemic to the blitz. From the “blitz spirit” to the death toll, the German bombing campaign in the second world war has become a go to for evaluating Britain’s response to the current crisis.

            -A. But some historians have questioned the usefulness of blitz comparisons. Coronavirus does not reduce buildings to rubble. Sunny references to the “blitz spirit” conveniently overlook the looting that accompanied the blackouts. And though the death rates of the blitz and COVID-19 look roughly equal – the blitz saw deaths of around 43,000 while COVID-19 has killed nearly 45,000 – it’s unclear how this statistic is of much use. There is drama in this comparison, but not much substance.

CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Enlisted Laborers of Public Health: Overlaps in the Work of Soldiers in Historical Perspective ^CV22. A friend relayed her experience of getting a test for COVID-19 at a drive through site at a university in Rhode Island, describing “dozens of camouflaged National Guard soldiers directing grim faced drivers”. After more than 12 days of persistent fever and two conversations with her doctor, she reported as instructed, alone in her car, and held her ID up to the car window at each checkpoint. “I was stuck waiting in a holding lot, along with several other cars, for 45 minutes. Our windows fogged up from sitting there breathing in an enclosed space on a wet day. Eventually one woman cracked open her window to let in some air. She was parked away from any other cars or people, but the way two guards ran up shouting ‘Ma’am, you need to close that window RIGHT NOW, ma’am!’ was akin to ordering her to put down a gun. It made me feel like all of us…were dangerous weapons”.

            -A. The slogan of the National Guard, “Always ready; Always there” encapsulates the idea that they provide a reserve of public labour. When underfunded and understaffed public health departments were far from ready and governments were slow to act, Americans turned to the military for help. More than a thousand members of the National Guard have tested positive for COVID-19, indicative of the high risk nature of the work. As my friend understood, the men in US Army uniforms, as they yelled at the woman to roll up her window in a tone that was both assertive and anxious, were trying to manage these risks that rainy day in the parking lot. My friend’s test was negative, and the fevers have finally subsided. As the pandemic continues apace, it is likely National Guard troops will continue to do the old fashioned but effective work of disease control that involves testing, contact tracing, and isolation. To be effective these strategies demand both the labor force who are “there” and “ready” and a substantial level of mutual trust between these workers and the publics they serve.

            CV23.1. Covid-19 Pandemic Is Stoking Extremist Flames Worldwide, Analysts Warn. Nation’s Top Emergency Preparedness Agency Focused on Warfare Threats Over Pandemic.

CV26. Environment, One Health: Air Pollution Exposure Linked to Higher Covid-19 Cases and Deaths. Compelling Evidence Air Pollution Worsens Coronavirus. The link between air pollution and severity of respiratory illness and conditions has been know for a long time. 200411-CV26. ADDED Smoking Habits Double Number of Young People Vulnerable to Severe COVID-19, Smokers Quit in Highest Numbers in a Decade.

            -A. ADDED: Smoking Habits Double Number of Young People Vulnerable to Severe Covid-19, Smokers Quit in Highest Numbers in a Decade. 220105-4.

            -B. MORE: Aug 2022 Even Low Levels of Air Pollution Can Damage Health.

CV27. Learning: California Shuts Down Again as U.S. Coronavirus Crisis Expands. The governor ordered a retreat on Monday from the state's reopening as coronavirus cases soared and the state's two largest school districts, Los Angeles and San Diego, announced all learning will be online only when classes resume in a few weeks.

             -A, ADDED Los Angeles and San Diego, announced all learning will be online only ^CV02 when classes resume in a few weeks. Coronavirus Spread Threatens to Overrun School Reopening Plans. [Cartoon].

            CV27.1. Reopened Schools in Europe and Asia Have Largely Avoided Coronavirus Outbreaks. They Have Lessons for the U.S.

            CV27.2. AP Fact Check: Trump Team’s False Comfort on Schools, Virus. | Devos Says CDC Guidelines on Schools Reopening 'Meant to Be Flexible', Betsy DeVos Cut off by CNN’s Bash with Fact Check That Children Will Not Be Safe Back in School During the Pandemic =2=, You Can’t Do That: Betsy DeVos Gets Schooled by Fox News Host, + Virus Spread, Not Politics Should Guide Schools, Doctors Say. Betsy DeVos and the School Reopening Directives That Could Kill America’s Teachers. DeVos Defends Push to Reopen Schools as Trump Admin Is Accused of Messing with Children's Health. Always Polarizing on Schools, Betsy Devos Brushes off Coronavirus Risks. [Cartoon =8= =9=]. Education Secretary DeVos Says Local School Leaders Will Handle Potential COVID-19 Outbreaks, with what pray tell, closing schools perhaps. 200710-27.1.

            -A. ADDED Fact Check: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Did Not Say 'Only' .02% of Kids Are Likely to Die When They Go Back to School; If So, it Would Not Add up to 14,740 Dead Children. [Cartoon]. Orange County's Largest School Districts Won't Comply with Board of Education Vote to Return to Classroom. Republicans Are Afraid to Attend Their Convention but Want Your Kids in School.

CV30. Methodology: When the World Changes under a Political Scientist’s Feet. The scientific method isn’t easy to use during rapid social change ^CV16.

            -A. Protests in response to George Floyd’s CV deaths ^CV15 and infections spread to over 3,000,000 of the U.S. People of all backgrounds are participating in this national uprising biocalamity, demanding an end to racist policing social distancing or lack of support for public health measures. As a political social scientist, I investigate why police killings biocalamities lead to protest or no protest and action. It is thrilling to watch this movement spark much needed debates about race and policing.

            -B. Yet, because of the uprising, I am now facing a challenge that few political social scientists ever do. Normally, the outcomes and causal factors that most political social scientists study change slowly, over time. Now, the protests CV Parademic behaviors I study have skyrocketed in number and participants. The beliefs I hypothesized were driving them could be changing as well. As more people join the protests and update their beliefs about race health and environmental biocalamities, the hypotheses I was planning to test could become outdated. Imaginary Dominionism 2018-1.