CV01. Protection: Pharmacists Shots, CV01.1. Russian Vaccines, CV03. Information: Origins of Misinformation, CV03.1. Facebook Superspreaders of Infodemic, CV04. Politics: Forced to Study Wuhan Conspiracy, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Cruises, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Georgia Teacher's Rap, CV11. Exploitation: Darknet, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Local Fire, Inmate Fire Fighters, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Contraception Loss, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Antivax Variations, CV19. Technosphere: Shutting Off Power, CV20. Communication: Indonesia, Coffin Warnings, CV22. Longue Duree: Deep Times, Outlast Us, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Venezuelan Crack Down, Suppressing Mail, CV26. Environment, One Health: Slow Urban Change, CV28. Logistics: Gap ICU Beds to ICU Care, CV28.1. Ventilators, CV28.2. Deciding Who Gets Remdesivir, CV33. Legal: New Zealand Lockdown Unlawful but Justified
PDN Introduction.
CV01. Protection: U.S. to Let Pharmacists Vaccinate Kids as Lockdowns Slash Immunization Levels, for routine vaccines to children calling a drop in immunization from lockdowns aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus a public health threat. This is already done is some states. There were also plans in some states to allow Dentists to help with mass vaccinations.
CV01.1. Russian Doctors Wary of Rapidly Approved Covid-19 Vaccine. Vietnam to Buy Russian Covid-19 Vaccine. Putin’s Plan for Russia’s Coronavirus Vaccine Is at High Risk of Backfiring. Surreal Scenes Inside Russia’s Battle Against the Pandemic, patients continue to fill hospitals as rumors and cynicism spread about a vaccine, 200526-CV01.1, 200402-CV16. Quick Cure for the Pandemic. Good Science Takes Time.
CV03. Information: Understanding COVID-19 Misinformation. The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on long enough that we know where much of the propaganda and misinformation about COVID-19 is coming from.
CV03.1. On Facebook, Health Misinformation Superspreaders Rack up Billions of Views. Misleading health content has racked up an estimated 3.8 billion views on Facebook Inc over the past year, peaking during the COVID-19 pandemic, #Document Facebook's Algorithm: A Major Threat to Public Health.
-A. Facebook Blocks Users from Linking to New Plandemic Hoax Video, Twitter adds warning to the link. 200724-CV03.
CV04. Politics: Coronavirus Researchers must Examine Trump Backed Conspiracy – or Lose Funding. Has pulled funding before, now wants information on Wuhan lab. This is also not the first time of pursuing a conspiracy theory beyond massive lack of evidence 200530-CV04.1.
CV05. Economics: Economic Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic CV02.
CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Family Kicked off First Mediterranean Cruise after Violating New Health Protocols. | At Least 40 Infected with Covid-19 on Norway Cruises amid Scramble to Trace Passengers. Outbreak Hits Norway Cruise Ship, Could Spread along Coast =2=. Not the same ship but if you are looking for a real big boat to buy here is a good deal, On Sale for $150m, Used Royal Caribbean Ship Costs less than Many New Yachts. Only Alaska Cruise in 2020 Returns After Coronavirus Case Confirmed on Boat. US Cruises Are off Through October after Infections Overseas. Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Astonished People Are Still Booking Cruises. 200731-CV08. 200513-CV31, 200420-CV22, 200424-CV14A, 200418-CV23B,
CV09. Arts, Creativity: Georgia Teachers' Back to School Rap about Virtual Learning Goes Viral =2= CV01 200816-CV2, <CONT 200322-200112-2¶>1B, <CONT 200315-200112-2¶>2D. <CONT 200308-200112-2¶>1C. <CONT 200223-200112-2¶>1 -F -G Despite Horror Stories, California Cruise Passengers Won't Let Coronavirus Spoil Their Fun. <CONT 200202-200112-2¶>1F -J, 200209-1B‡ -J.
-A. MORE: Carnival to Ditch 18 Ships in Total as U.S. Cruises Remain Banned amid Covid-19 Pandemic.
CV11. Exploitation: Sketchy Darknet Websites Are Taking Advantage of the Covid-19 Pandemic – Buyer Beware.
CV12. Personal, Relationships: There was a possibility that yesterday’s PDN was not going to be posted, and today might not have had one at all. Mandatory evacuations were being called for fires, unfortunately the messages and other sources of information were unclear which caused more problems as people either went the wrong direction, or evacuated that did not need to.
-A. [Photo] is from a local town that was ordered to evacuate from the fire. He says he has been through four wildfires and seven floods in the 43 years he has lived in town. Apparently he is refusing to evacuate, but note that even he has a mask and keeping social distance.
-B. More than Half of California's Incarcerated Firefighters Are under Lockdown as Coronavirus Sweeps Through State Prisons, Resulting in a Shortage of Crews in Fire Season. 200806-CV33.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Millions of Women Lose Contraceptives, Abortions in Covid-19.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Cries the Antivaxxer: Vegans, Don’t Take a Covid-19 Vaccine Because it Uses Horseshoe Crab Blood. This is no different than their weaponization of beliefs against other vaccine ingredients.
-A. And this one is a variation of anti GMO scare tactics, those who believe in foods as cures, and vaccine sterilization. Can Vaccines Alter Your DNA.
-B. MORE: The erstwhile Dr. Wakefield has appeared frequently in parademic over the years as both a fraud and conspiracy theorist about vaccines. Unknown how many deaths can be attributed to his actions. Fraud Doctor Andrew Wakefield Now Lying about Covid RNA Vaccine, Andrew Wakefield Spews Nonsense about How the Covid-19 Vaccine Will Permanently Alter Your DNA. Andrew Wakefield Uses Coronavirus Pandemic to Push Discredited Anti-vaccine Claims.
CV19. Technosphere: Mayor Authorizes Utility Shutoff at Los Angeles Party House =2= CV01 CV33.
CV20. Communication: Indonesia Capital Displays Dummy Coffin as Covid-19 Warning. Authorities in Indonesia's capital are experimenting with some shock tactics to fight COVID-19, by displaying an empty coffin at a busy intersection as a reminder of the dangers of the highly contagious virus.
CV22. Longue Duree: ‘All Things Will Outlast Us’: How the Indigenous Concept of Deep Time Helps Us Understand Environmental Destruction. CV10 CV26.
CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Venezuela Deploys Security Forces in Coronavirus Crackdowns. Venezuelan officials are denouncing people who may have come into contact with the coronavirus as “bioterrorists” and urging their neighbors to report them. The government is detaining and intimidating doctors and experts who question the president’s policies on the virus. Venezuela Government Detaining People Who Come in Contact with Coronavirus as Bioterrorists. Turkey Ferries Covid-19 Aid to Venezuela as Foreign Minister Visits is saying far more that a humanitarian gesture. Many Leaders Used Covid as Cover to Dent Democracy. Trump May Be the First to Openly Admit It. ADDED Some Countries Are Using the Pandemic as an Excuse to Crack down on Journalism.
-A. ADDED: Some Countries Are Using the Pandemic as an Excuse to Crack down on Journalism.
-B. MORE: Venezuelans Fight Virus in Secret to Avoid Isolation Centers. 200501-CV05A.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Creating Meaningful Change in Cities Takes Decades, Not Years, and Starts from the Bottom. If cities are engines of economic growth, why do poverty and inequality persist. If cities thrive on faster activity and more diversity, why are so many things so hard to change. And if growth and innovation are so important, how can urban planners and economists get away with describing cities with Groundhog Day style models of equilibrium
-A. Developing improved collective actions and policies, and creating more equitable, prosperous and environmentally sustainable pathways requires transcending these apparent paradoxes. The paper finds it critical that societies embrace and utilize the natural tensions of cities revealed by urban science in order to advance more holistic solutions. CV32.
CV28. Logistics: Another missed human factor. ICU Capacity is More About the Clinicians than the Number of Beds. In our zeal to understand how our health systems are coping with Covid--19, a key issue is often overlooked: human capacity. Contractors can build new hospitals in a week. But training competent doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other clinicians to work in intensive care units takes years. If we build ICU beds, patients will come. But who will care for them. And with the shortage of medical personnel how long will they last.
CV28.1. The U.S. Forced Major Manufacturers to Build Ventilators. Now They’re Piling up Unused in a Strategic Reserve. 200815-CV28.2 indicates the ventilators are on a shortage list. 200706-CV28.2 -A, 200629-CV24. 200622-CV28, Democrat Raises Questions about Trump Administration's Deliveries of Ventilators Abroad, Trump Is Donating Ventilators to Countries That Don’t Need or Can’t Use Them, House Democrats Find Trump Officials Overpaid for Ventilators by as Much as $500 Million. 200619-CV04, 200519-CV01. 200420-CV07A, Thousands of Stockpiled Ventilators Sent to New York Hospitals Turn out to Be Claw Machines, Afghan All Girls Robotics Team Designs Low Cost Ventilator to Treat Coronavirus Patients. [Cartoon] referring to delayed relief checks 200415-CV5. 200410-CV19, 200411-CV4, 200405-9B, 200405-CV2C.(200405)
CV28.2. How Feds Decide on Remdesivir Shipments to States Remains Mysterious. This problem of how the decisions are made on who gets what, when and in what amount has been a continuous question the past few years.
CV33. Legal: New Zealand Court Rules Part of Early Coronavirus Lockdown Was Illegal, finding that the first nine days of a hard lockdown put in place by the government earlier this year requiring people to isolate at home was justified, but unlawful.
-A. The legality of was questioned about calls by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other officials between March 26 and April 3 telling New Zealanders to stay at home. An order imposing stay at home restrictions was not passed until April 3, so New Zealanders rights and freedoms were unlawfully limited for those first nine days, the court said. “While there is no question that the requirement was a necessary, reasonable and proportionate response to the COVID-19 crisis at that time, the requirement was not prescribed by law”. All other challenges to the lockdown were dismissed. This is one reason why public health official have independent legal authority to call for protective measures. The legal system may take too long, especially if there are negative parademic behavior to slow the process down. 50 Top Legal Experts Find U.S. Policy Response to COVID-19 Dangerously Lacking, Recommend Steps to Safeguard Health, Civil and Human Rights.
-B. MORE: In Their Own Words: Public Health Officials on Front Line.
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