CV03. Information: Beach Hotspots, CV03.1. Ubiquitous Misinformation, CV04. Politics: Russian Vaccine to Philippines, CV05. Economics: New York Stock Exchange, CV05.1. Grocery Prices, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Poetry, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Eloping, CV15. Death: Minus 300,000 by December, CV15.1. Infectious Funeral, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Anti Mask Reasoning, CV19. Technosphere: Shorter Meetings Longer Days, CV20. Communication: Multiple Big Public Health Message Failures, CV25. Movement: Mass Public Transit Language, CV25.1. No Mask, No Fly, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Salesmanship is not Leadership, CV31. Futuring: Suicides
PDN Introduction.
CV03. Information: What’s up with All the News Photos That Make Beaches Look like Covid Hotspots. Plus: All misinformation is local; a very specific kind of Covid-19 misinformation in Facebook parent groups; and “religious clickbait”.
CV03.1. Misinformation is Everybody’s Problem Now. Misinformation can be deadly. The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that fact clearly and tragically. While the big tech companies have taken some steps to rein in misinformation and make credible organizations more visible, they lag far behind the pundits, scammers, and extremists who abuse trust on a global scale. It’s time for companies and researchers to take risks, make bold experiments, and rigorously test ways to slow the speed and spread of deadly deceptions.
CV04. Politics: Russia Offers to Supply Philippines with Covid-19 Vaccine. Russia is willing to supply a coronavirus vaccine to the Philippines, or team up with a local firm to mass produce it, its ambassador to Manila said on Friday, as infections in the Southeast Asian nation surge.
-A. This will be interesting to watch. My assumption was that China would offer the Philippines its vaccine first to cement it increasing control of the South China Sea, and drive another wedge between the Philippines and the US. There is also the relatively recent denguevaxia disaster and concerns about the Russian vaccine and motives will likely cause some hesitation to accept. Russia’s Race for Virus Vaccine Raises Concerns in the West.
CV05. Economics: Dow Skyrockets after Coronavirus Begins Trading on New York Stock Exchange CV02.
CV05.1. Everything at the Grocery Store Is Getting More Expensive. Grocery Prices Spike During Pandemic CV02.
-A. ADDED Without Federal Protections, Farm Workers Risk Coronavirus Infection to Harvest Crops, Everyone Tested Positive: Covid Devastates Agriculture Workers in California's Heartland 200809-2A.
CV09. Arts, Creativity: 9 Poems for This Fraught Moment.
CV12. Personal, Relationships: We Eloped, Just Not the Way We’d Planned.
CV15. Death: 300,000 Deaths by December. 9 Takeaways from the Newest Covid-19 Projections. 1. The coronavirus is on track to be the third leading cause of death in the U.S. 2. The hardest hit states probably won't bend their curves much. 3. There could be a roller coaster effect. 4. Starting in November, cold weather could turbocharge this cycle. 5. Things could be worse than projected if hard hit states don't return to lockdowns. 6. Things might be better than projected if mask use takes off. 7. Even with universal masking, many states may need to lock down. 8. New solutions could change the model. 9. Not all forecasts are as pessimistic.
CV15.1. Funeral Linked to 30 Coronavirus Cases in Minnesota, Friends Say. I Took a Chance. Tried to Do Everything Right: Thirty Infected with Coronavirus at Family Funeral in Minnesota.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Anti Maskers Explain Themselves. If I’m going to get Covid and die from it, then so be it. Part of the problem is the facts have changed. Another part is where the facts are coming from. Politics is part of it, but not all of it. Grandmas and grandpas die all the time.
-A. ADDED Health Authorities Encourage the General Public to Wear Face Masks to Reduce Covid-19 Transmission. CLAIM: Health authorities like the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discourage people from wearing face masks. Inaccurate: Recommendations by health authorities on the use of face masks by the public have changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. Health authorities initially discouraged the public from wearing face masks due to extreme shortages of surgical and N95 masks needed to protect healthcare workers. However, health authorities now recommend mask use by the public, as new evidence suggests that cloth face masks worn by the public effectively reduce COVID-19 transmission. Misleading: Such posts mislead by presenting the reader with outdated recommendations as if they were still current.
CV19. Technosphere: Shorter Meetings but Longer Days: How Covid-19 Has Changed the Way We Work.
CV20. Communication: Public Health’s Single Biggest COVID-19 Risk Communication Failure. A reporter asked me what I consider “the single biggest communication failure” of public health experts and officials with regard to COVID-19. It took me a few weeks to think it through, but I now have a five part answer to this question. Part One: Public Health Over Reassures the Public. Part Two: Public Health Panics and Overreacts. Part Three: Public Health Flubs the Rationale for Lockdowns – with Profound Implications for the Path Forward. Part Four: Public Health Abandons “Flatten the Curve”, Ground rules for how to dance, Optimism versus pessimism, Signs of hope. Part Five: Public Health Insists It Should Be in Charge.
CV25. Movement: After COVID-19, Public Transport in Intensive Care. Many certainties fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic. The director of forecasting for the French urban transport is no exception to this reality. “The problem with public transport is that there is “public” or “communal” in the name, he says. The term “communal”, in a period when we are being urged to limit what we do in a communal manner, “inevitably, that handicaps us”. Thought is being given in the public transportation sector to looking for a new, less anxiety provoking name CV06. This line of thinking is an indication to what extent the sector was hit by the crisis, and questions are being raised about its very foundations. The train, the metro, the bus, the tram are all enclosed and collective spaces, and as such are the designated victims of health vigilance. Study Shows Transportation Beliefs of 20 Years Ago Largely Myths, Predicts Today's Will Be as Well.
CV25.1. Can an Airline Put You on a No Fly List for Refusing to Mask Up. A no fly list is perfectly within its scope of rights. The legal reasoning is pretty straightforward, they're a private business, and private businesses can have rules.
-A. So why do some people think airline mask mandates are a violation of their freedom. Part of the misconception is the confusion about what exactly a "right" is. No one has a right to fly. Instead, you're just a participant navigating the free market: You have several options [to get to your destination] — car, train, foot. And in this way, an airline is just like a restaurant: It can deny service to somebody for reasons that are specific to it.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Trump Thinks Good Marketing Equals Good Leadership. Covid-19 Revealed the Truth. Except for a narrow targeted advertising among those who have already bought the product, I have not observed much in the way of good marketing either. Leadership has never been exhibited, unless one counts bullying as leadership.
CV31. Futuring: Google Searches During Pandemic: Hints of Future Increase in Suicide. U.S. Google searches for information about financial difficulties and disaster relief increased sharply in March and April compared with pre pandemic times, while Googling related to suicide decreased. Because previous research has shown that financial distress is strongly linked to suicide mortality, the researchers fear that the increase may predict a future increase in deaths from suicide.
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