CV02. Humor: Conspiracy Jokes, CV03. Information: Fact, Beliefs, Imagineries, Assumptions, CV05. Economics: Mass Evictions, CV15. Death: Iraq, Burials, CV19. Technosphere: Virtual Pilgrimage, CV25. Movement: Having a Safe Trip, CV27. Learning: Growth of Online Courses, CV27.1. Multiple Guess Test, Face to Face Schools, CV27.2. CDC Changes Guidelines, CV28. Logistics: Hospital Tipping Point, CV30. Methodology: Fatality Metric, Lying With Statistics, CV31. Futuring: Post Pandemic Offices, CV32. Anthromes: Redlined Communities, Zip Code Dangers, CV32.1. Density of Hazard vs Population Density, CV33. Legal: Constitutional Mask Mandates
PDN Introduction.
CV02. Humor: Did Christopher Harrington Patent a ‘CV19-N95’ Mask in 2015. Jokes and conspiracy theories often get mistaken from one another on social media. This is Poe’s Law.
CV03. Information: Disinformation Campaigns Are Murky Blends of Truth, Lies and Sincere Beliefs – Lessons from the Pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic – actually parademic, a pandemic in a biocalamity with no will or intent beyond biological imperatives – has spawned an infodemic – again CV did not spawn an infodemic, people did and fostered the spread of lies making CV more lethal – a vast and complicated mix of information, misinformation and disinformation. *ADDED Local TV Stations Across the Country Set to Air Discredited 'Plandemic' Researcher's Conspiracy Theory about Fauci =2=, Sinclair to Delay Segment Featuring Plandemic Conspiracy Theory =2=, 200723-CV26. Trump Says Fauci Would like to Close up the U.S. for Years. Trump Has a New Favourite News Network – and It's More Rightwing than Fox 2019.
-A. In this environment, false narratives – the virus was “planned*”, that it originated as a bioweapon – in a sense CV was turned into a bioweapon by proxy, intentional distortions to increase its harmful impacts – that COVID-19 symptoms are caused by 5G wireless communications technology – have spread like wildfire across social media and other communication platforms. Some of these bogus narratives play a role in disinformation campaigns.
-*B. ADDED: Local TV Stations Across the Country Set to Air Discredited 'Plandemic' Researcher's Conspiracy Theory about Fauci =2=, Sinclair to Delay Segment Featuring Plandemic Conspiracy Theory =2=, 200723-CV26, 200819-CV03.1A. Trump Says Fauci Would like to Close up the U.S. for Years. Trump Has a New Favourite News Network – and It's More Rightwing than Fox 2019. 200817-CV04B. *D.
-C. The notion of disinformation often brings to mind easy to spot propaganda peddled by totalitarian states (outside that state), but the reality is much more complex. Though disinformation does serve an agenda, it is often camouflaged in facts (by malfeasants) and advanced by innocent (willful ignorance) and often well meaning individuals. Not sure that classifying unwitting agents of disinformation are well meaning. They are working on an agenda that is in support of their own personal benefit.
-*D. Defining social contagions is not as simple as one would think. Crime is an example of a human behavior that has some characteristics of a contagion, especially as law enforcement tries to control the contagion of certain contaminated areas and keeping it out of clean areas. But is racism a social contagion. From one perspective it is an evil to be eliminated, while from another it is a natural repugnance for inferior races that are polluting the superior one.
-E. MORE: Aug 2022 Researchers Document 'Infodemic' of False Information on Covid-19 in First Year of Pandemic.
CV05. Economics: A Federal Eviction Moratorium Protecting Millions Ends Today. Renters in These States Are Most at Risk. The end of the moratorium – enforced for the past four months under the CARES Act – will put an estimated 12 million renters at risk, while the nearing expiration of other protections could leave 20% of the country’s 110 million renters vulnerable by September.
-A. MORE: Landlord Leaning Eviction Courts Are about to Make the Coronavirus Housing Crisis a Lot Worse. Trump Melts down and Claims He Can Stop All Evictions with an Executive Order (He Can’t). Eviction: the Physical, Financial and Mental Health Consequences of Losing Your Home. [Cartoon]. 200515-CV31.1. Nov 2022 Pressure Mounts to Extend Covid Eviction Protections, but So Far, LA Council Doesn’t Budge.
CV15. Death: AP Photos: Lonely Burials for Virus Victims in Iraq's Najaf.
CV19. Technosphere: Online Christian Pilgrimage: How a Virtual Tour to Lourdes Follows a Tradition of Innovation.
CV25. Movement: Here's How to Plan a Safe Road Trip During a Pandemic CV08.
CV27. Learning: Massive Online Open Courses See Exponential Growth During Covid-19 Pandemic. But who are these students. Probably ones with good internet connection, good monitors, who have been rewarded for education in the past. The cumulatively implies not people of color.
CV27.1. Kids, Covid, and Classrooms – What’s the Right Answer. 1) How great a risk is the coronavirus to children. 2) Are children important transmitters of the virus. 3) How great a risk is the coronavirus to teachers and staff. 4) How much virus is circulating in the community. 5) What are the costs of not opening schools. School Situation Highlights Depths of Trump Administration’s Covid Denial. Trump Administration Recommends Against Universities Requiring Covid-19 Tests for Returning Students. Parents in a County with One of Georgia's Highest Coronavirus Rates Are Protesting to Get Children Back in School 200722-CV03A.
CV27.2. CDC Releases Updated Guidelines in Favor of Reopening Schools, CDC’s New School Guidelines Play down Risk, Play up Attendance, 200710-CV27.1. [Cartoon =2=]. A Large Covid-19 Outbreak in a High School 10 Days after Schools’ Reopening, Israel, May 2020. 200721-CV01A. In Shift, Trump Says Some Schools May Need to Delay Opening, does this mean CDC will have to change its guidelines again. ADDED McEnany Likens Schools to 'Essential Places of Business' in Push for Reopening. ADDED Donald Trump's Mind Bending Logic on School Reopenings.
-A. MORE: In Reversal, Trump Says Schools in Coronavirus Hot Spots Should Delay Reopening but should open fully if they want to receive tens of billions of dollars in new federal aid. How Tough Are the CDC's School Guidelines.
CV28. Logistics: ICUs Reach Breaking Point as Nation Hits 4 Million Coronavirus Hoaxes CV01. More People in the US Are Hospitalized with Covid-19 than at Almost Any Other Time. Another COVID-19 Medical Mystery: Patients, Post Ventilator, Who Don’t Wake Up. One Third of Covid-19 Patients Who Aren't Hospitalized Have Long Term Illness. CV30↓.
CV30. Methodology: Trump's Favorite Coronavirus Metric, the Case Fatality, Is Unreliable CV03 CV15 CV28↑ CV29. The case fatality rate is the result of a simple mathematical calculation: the number of deaths divided by the number of diagnosed coronavirus cases. But it's also a moving target. Case numbers are rising fast; deaths are a lagging indicator, running several weeks behind. Bill Gates Hits Trump’s Coronavirus Boast with a Blunt Reality Check. The same metric is used in Sweden Split on Coronavirus Immunity, doctors and scientists say government’s figures are based on a completely unproven assumption, 200708-CV01.
CV31. Futuring: The Office Is Dead. Long Live the Office in a Post Pandemic World. The future of the office has become an open question after the coronavirus lockdown forced tens of millions of Americans to work from home. Will office workers flock back to their cubicles and water coolers when the pandemic ends? Or will employees want to hold on to their newfound freedom and flexibility, while employers eye the lower costs of the lack of a physical footprint.
-A. At least a few companies have already answered this question: Twitter, for example, says most of its employees can continue working from home forever, making the office merely a place to meet clients. We asked three scholars to weigh in on the future of the office. 1) Relationships need proximity. 2) Worker flexibility is here to stay.
CV32. Anthromes: Is Your Neighborhood Raising Your Coronavirus Risk? Redlining Decades Ago Set Communities up for Greater Danger CV22. Much of our present day disparities in health, wealth and social mobility can be traced back to the 1930s, when neighborhoods were “redlined” by the Home Owner’s Loan Corporation. In this racist practice, banks drew red lines on a map around neighborhoods with populations of color, restricting lending in these places and starving them of investment for generations to come.
-A. These later became zip codes. Long ago I had proposed using zip codes rather than counties as the basis of pandemic mapping as I noticed a correlation between 2009H1N1, social determinants of health and Zip Codes. Unfortunately proving the correlation took hours of work, as the information was not easily available. I also did not know the longue duree CV22 of Zip Codes.
-B. MORE: How the Pandemic Changed Human Mobility Patterns.
CV32.1. Why Urban Density Is Good for Health – Even During a Pandemic. the idea that density is unhealthy is an oversimplification and misleading when it comes to COVID-19. Findings show near zero associations between the density of 36 world cities (as measured in people per square kilometre) and rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
-A. To control COVID-19, dense megacities such as Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul introduced public health actions such as testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine in a timely manner, and combined these with physical distancing and mask wearing. These measures have been effective in containing early outbreaks of the virus, despite high density raising the risk of infection.
-B. When it comes to determining how vulnerable city residents are to COVID-19, density is likely to be just one of several key factors. Rather, the key issue is lack of space – both private living space and wider neighbourhood public space. The top five most crowded neighbourhoods in the UK have seen 70% more COVID-19 cases than the five least crowded neighbourhoods, even after controlling for local deprivation. It's not how many people live in a certain area that matters, but the conditions they live in. Another modification I will have to make to social determinants for outbreaks.
-C. MORE: Mega Regions and Pandemics. Mega regions – clusters of metropolitan regions like the Acela Corridor in the United States are more exposed to diseases earlier in pandemics. We review standard accounts for the benefits and costs of locating in such regions before arguing that pandemic risk is higher there on average. Results indicate that American mega regions have born the early brunt of the disease, and that three mega regions are hotspots. From this standpoint, the extent more than the intensity of New York's urbanization may be implicated in its COVID 19 experience. We conclude that early pandemic risk is a hitherto unrecognised diseconomy operating in mega regions. The US diseconomy was recognized with the Wealth Gap, and More Expensive but less Effective: The US Healthcare System Explained. Jul 2022 Economic Inequality and Instability Impacts Long Term Decision Making Around the World. Would you rather have $500 today or $550 in 12 months A large study involving more than 60 countries finds that individuals across income groups and locations often prefer immediate gains at the expense of future gains.
CV33. Legal: The Constitution Doesn’t Have a Problem with Mask Mandates. All constitutional rights are subject to the goverment’s authority to protect the health, safety and welfare of the community. This authority is called the police power. The Supreme Court has long held that protecting public health is sufficient reason to institute measures that might otherwise violate the First Amendment or other provisions in the Bill of Rights.
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