CV01. Protection: Vaccine Priority to Health Care, Vaccine Nationalism, CV02. Humor: Anxious Response, Drive Thrus, CV03. Information: Our People, Red State Protection, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Reopening States, CV11. Exploitation: Profiting from Panic, CV11.1. PPP Lamborghini Fraud, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Anti Common Ground, CV25. Movement: Travel Bans, CV25.1. Delta and Lysol, CV26. Environment, One Health: Forest Protection, Pandemic Prevention, CV28. Logistics: Famine Deaths, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: India's Status
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CV01. Protection: Health Workers Should Be Top Priority for Vaccines - Nurses' Group. This is a risk if the concerns about too fast vaccines turn out to be true, possibly with an abrupt unavailability of medical personnel. 200712-CV18. First Phase 3 Test of Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate Begins in US. CV02↓. Even If There's a Coronavirus Vaccine next Year, Don't Expect to Throw Away Your Mask and Stop Social Distancing, a Top Vaccine Developer Says. A Vaccine Reality Check, a vaccine won’t make life go back to normal instantly, it will mark only the beginning of a long, slow ramp down. And how long that ramp down takes will depend on the efficacy of a vaccine, the success in delivering hundreds of millions of doses, and the willingness of people to get it at all.
-A. The Global Risk of Vaccine Nationalism. A Covid-19 outbreak in one country is a threat to all. What happens if the vaccine race is every nation for itself. Trump's Trade War Made the Pandemic Worse, and Nationalism Will Slow the Recovery. Protectionism CV05 is now infecting the GOP to a degree that may be difficult to eradicate when the Trump era ends. 200709-CV11.1A. National Security Adviser Says US Will Develop a Coronavirus Vaccine First, Trump National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Trump Downplays National Security Adviser's Coronavirus Diagnosis, I haven't seen him lately =2=.
-B. ADDED The Tragedy of Vaccine Nationalism.
CV02. Humor: More Cities Offering Drive thru Covid Injection Sites to Put Citizens out of Misery. Parody of drive in testing and social commentary on: suicide, CV parties, incompetent federal response, federal focus on city crime waves, testing delays, fear of too fast vaccines CV01↑, general despair at spiking cases and religious nihilism.
CV03. Information: Another illustration that whether true or not, what is believed is what influences behavior. Trump Only Pivoted on Coronavirus after Reportedly Being Warned of Spikes among 'Our People' in Red States. People close to Trump think that, throughout most of the coronavirus pandemic, he struggled to wholly address the crisis because of an unwillingness to admit error, a positive feedback loop from advisers and Fox News, and a penchant for magical thinking, led him to believe the virus would soon disappear.
-A. He has come around a bit and is now acknowledging the pandemic isn't going to improve overnight. The pivot apparently came only after Trump realized his voting base was in danger. Over the last few weeks, his advisers have reportedly shown him maps and data that highlight spikes in coronavirus cases among "our people" in Republican states. The advisers have also reportedly shared projections predicting surges in Midwestern battleground states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, all of which are key to Trump winning reelection CV04. Trump Didn't Care About Coronavirus Until it Hit Red States.
-B. MORE: Jared Kushner’s Coronavirus Task Force Decided to Ignore a Nationwide Effort Because Only Blue States Had the Virus =2=. If true this may be the second time in the US that a biological weapon has been used to sway an election. This is not the first time a gubergenic has exploited disease and medical access to suppress opposition and attract votes, such as the possible use of the smallpox outbreak in Boston during the American Revolution. White House Denies Report That National Coronavirus Testing Plan Was Scrapped to Hurt Blue States. Did Jared Kushner’s Task Force Scrap Nationwide Covid-19 Testing Over Politics.
CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: MLB Announces Players Will Now Be Quarantined for 14 Days Between Bases CV02. What American Sports Can Learn from Other Attempts to Restart Around the World.
-A. ADDED Baseball's Coronavirus Crisis Is America in Miniature. Fauci Says Baseball Season Could Be In Danger as Players Test Positive for Coronavirus. [Cartoon =2= =3= =4= =5=]. What the Miami Marlins’ Covid-19 Outbreak Means for the Mlb Season, Explained by an Epidemiologist, If we’re able to bring sports back in the US, it’s going to be more difficult, more expensive, and more dangerous. Baseball Season Teeters, While States Resist Mask Rules.
CV11. Exploitation: Profiting from Panic: the Bizarre Bogus Cures and Scams of the Coronavirus Era. The crisis offers opportunities for criminals and grifters (and ideologues) to profit through fraudulent schemes and products, including attempts to steal information and sell fake cures. The latest Infodemic Monitor from Princeton University’s COVID-19 disinformation project examines some of these lies and their consequences.
CV11.1. Florida Man Receives $3.9 Million in COVID-19 Relief Funds, Buys a Lamborghini and Gets Arrested for Fraud. Applying for about $13.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for a few companies. PPP, part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, was enacted to provide small businesses with forgivable loans. Any money given to a company on behalf of the program is supposed to be used for rent or mortgage costs, employee salaries and utilities. 200829-CV11. 201205-CV11.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: What Do Anti Maskers Have in Common with Antivaxxers. If you believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is deadly and should be avoided by wearing a mask and social distancing, then it would be harder to think that you also shouldn't get vaccinated and protected once they develop a safe and effective vaccine, right. So to avoid this kind of cognitive dissonance, these antivaxxers become anti maskers. ADDED Anti Masking Groups Draw from Anti Vaccination Playbook to Spread Misinformation. How Antivaxxers Are Thinking about a Covid-19 Vaccine.
-A. There are many other cognitive biases, heuristics, and logical fallacies that anti maskers share with antivaxxers. From bandwagoning and omission bias to optimism bias and wanting to be in control, the cognitive phenomena that influences this kind of thinking is well known.
-B. There are other ideological associations of anti mask, such as guns and Walmart Bans Couple Seen in Video Wearing the Nazi Swastika on Their Face Coverings
CV25. Movement: Travel Bans Cannot Be Indefinite, Countries must Fight Virus at Home. Countries are going to have to do more to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus within their borders, the World Health Organization said.
-A. I have nothing in the way of persuasive evidence but area self isolations appear be more for the purpose of public health theater, to give the impression that something is being done, or can be spun for political theater that the other side is not doing what it should. It is also a good way to obscure that an area is unprepared for an infectious disease, but without having to actually spend any money to boost preparedness for a medical surge. Area self isolation also serves an ideological purpose of emphasizing othering, that contamination comes from without, not internally. Area self isolations do however have an immediate benefit in delaying spread, allowing time to prepare, to flatten the curve so that health systems will not be overwhelmed, and to develop behavioral and medical protective measures and treatments, possibly eventually a cure and/or prophylactic.
CV25.1. Delta Teams up with Lysol to Innovate on Travel Hygiene, to research and develop new disinfecting solutions for high traffic areas in airports and onboard, with a first focus on airplane lavatories. Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Flying Safely During COVID-19 – And His Response to Passengers Who Won’t Wear Masks. Delta Flight from Detroit to Atlanta Delayed after 2 Passengers Refused to Wear Masks. 3 People Test Positive for Covid-19 after Taking Delta Flight from Atlanta to Albany. 500 Delta Airline Staff Test Positive for Coronavirus, 10 Dead. Delta Cuts Summer Flying as Demand Stalls Due to Coronavirus, Posts $5.7 Billion Quarterly Loss.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Video: Slowing Deforestation Is the Key to Preventing the next Pandemic – but What Does That Cost.
CV28. Logistics: Virus Linked Hunger Tied to 10,000 Child Deaths Each Month CV15.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: India’s Coronavirus Epidemic Is Now the World’s Fastest Growing. | Ambulances, Hearses Queue up at Crematoriums. India's PM Says His Country Proved the World Wrong with its Handling of Coronavirus, Modi Says Coronavirus Risk Persists in India, Recoveries Rise. Indians Seek Ancient Ayurvedic Home Remedies to Protect Themselves from Coronavirus. India's Covid-19 Cases Surge past One Million, India Now Has More than 1 Million Coronavirus Cases. What Does That Mean – and How Did the Country Get Here. 201222-CV08A, 200716-CV29. 200810-CV01.1B. 200813-CV29. 200829-CV29.
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