CV01. Protection: Fast Test Mistakes, Plasma Cure, CV02. Humor: Consequences of 2nd Term, CV05. Economics: Hollow Public Health, CV06. Linguistics: Don't Lick Fingers, CV15. Death: Are You Ready, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Management Resistance about Working from Home, CV16.1. Cyber Security From Home Work, CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Swedish Defends Deaths, CV19. Technosphere: Tech Survives and Thrives, CV22. Longue Duree: Canada, First Nation, Memory of Epidemics, CV24. Norms: Epidemics and Lockdowns Normalizing, Eradication Not an Option, CV25. Movement: Border Failures, CV26. Environment, One Health: Permission to Ignore Environmental Safety
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CV01. Protection: HHS Decision to Allow Covid-19 Tests to Market Without FDA Review Provokes Congressional Backlash. Trump Is Sending Fast, Cheap COVID Tests to Nursing Homes – But There’s a Hitch. 200822-CV04 -A.
-A. Thanks to Trump, the FDA Just Had the Worst Day in its History. Outrageous: Trump Announcement on Convalescent Plasma Blasted by Scientists. Why Experts Are Worried about the FDA’s Approval of Convalescent Plasma for Covid-19. HHS Chief Alex Azar Defends Authorization of Plasma to Treat Covid-19. Navarro’s Push for Plasma Treatment Goes Further than FDA Scientists. The FDA Should Not Have Caved to Trump’s Latest Covid-19 Demand. Fauci Says Rushing out a Vaccine Could Jeopardize Testing of Others. WHO Cautious on Covid-19 Plasma as US Issues Emergency Authorisation. 200822-CV04 -A.
-B. ADDED FDA Commissioner Disputes Trump, Says No 'Deep State' Thwarting Vaccine. FDA's Hahn Apologizes for Overselling Plasma's Benefits as a Covid-19 Treatment. Convalescent Plasma Went from Promising to Politically Tainted: 3 Things to Know.
CV02. Humor: RNC Features Tribute from Family Members of Americans Who Will Die If Trump Wins Second Term CV04 CV15.
CV05. Economics: Hollowed out Public Health System Faces More Cuts amid Virus.
CV06. Linguistics: KFC Is Temporarily Dropping its 'Finger Lickin' Good' Motto Citing Concern for its Hygienic Implications amid the Coronavirus Pandemic =2=.
CV15. Death: The Coronavirus Is Pushing More People to Ponder If They're Ready for Death.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: With Management Resistance Overcome, Working from Home May Be Here to Stay. The COVID-19 pandemic rendered objections irrelevant. Three times as many managers thought team productivity and performance had increased as those who perceived a decrease, with the majority neutral. One manager noted "people are either productive or not, and it doesn't matter where they work from". Others said it had changed their management style for the better, forcing them to realize they did not need to micromanage to get results.
-A. Generally, employees were positive about working from home, with more than four out of five saying it gave them more time with their family, two thirds saying they got more work done, and three in five enjoying having more autonomy over their work.
CV16.1. Global Pandemic Opening up Can of Security Worms. Caught by the sudden onslaught of COVID-19, most businesses lacked or had inadequate security systems in place to support remote work and now have to deal with a new reality that includes a much wider attack surface and less secured user devices. CV23.
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: Swedish Covid-19 Response Chief Predicts Local Outbreaks, No Big Second Wave. Sweden's Covid-19 Strategist under Fire over Herd Immunity Emails, appears he asked if higher death rate for older people might be acceptable. Sweden’s Covid-19 Mortality Is Higher than in Most European Countries; No Evidence Whether or How the Absence of Lockdown Impacted this Outcome. Sweden Records Highest Death Tally in 150 Years in First Six Months of 2020. Swedish PM Defends Covid Strategy from Criticism over Death Toll. CV15 200813-CV05.2 -A. The uncertainty is if one’s government determines that one is expendable for economic reasons.
CV19. Technosphere: How the Pandemic Has Immeasurably Altered Our Relationship with Tech. When the U.S. screeched to a halt in March 2020 as a result of the pandemic, technology spared the world from a complete and total shutdown. From Zoom meetings to e-commerce to VR concerts, technology kept us connected and kept businesses running. We could continue taking workout classes via Instagram Live and Zoom, seeing our doctors face to face through video calls, and even hanging out together in virtual chat rooms. For those of us who live alone, it spared us from complete aloneness.
CV22. Longue Duree: Canada Why Are Indigenous Communities Seeing So Few Cases of Covid-19. The memory of past epidemics in which entire villages were nearly wiped out made people especially cautious about COVID-19. Communities recognized the need to really take this seriously and install their own public health measures. Indigenous people got creative to stay connected virtually, set up trailers for self isolation, and made roadblocks to control access to their communities.
-A. The First Nations Health Authority also put out special public health messages specifically recognizing Indigenous strengths and the sacrifices made by communities during the lockdown. Many have put on hold or modified ceremonies, funerals, and rites of passage.
CV24. Norms: Uncertain CV17 but lockdowns, along with new CV vaccine every few months from the possibility of reinfection =2=, may become a norm CV31. UK Second National Lockdown Warning as R Rate Rises, Government advisors Sage believe 'more nationwide measures are needed' as R rate goes over 1 for the first time since March lockdown. There Was Just No Choice: the 36 Hours That Forced Boris Johnson to Put the Brakes On. Data seemingly showed a 63 per cent rise in coronavirus infections in just two weeks – and ushered in new restrictions. 200731-CV23.1.
-A. At this time ring vaccination is not an option, and potentially never will be if CV remains globally endemic and mutable. One possibility is to use a global medical (not military) version of the Road to New York CV09, with planned lockdowns to eliminate CV in regions, then keep those area isolated and expand the lockdown outside the now clear area, to clear a new region. Any such effort needs to be globally coordinated and not done in isolation from the rest of the world.
CV25. Movement: Border Lines Stretch for Miles, Waits Grow to 10 Hours in Coronavirus Crackdown.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Thousands Allowed to Bypass Environmental Rules in Pandemic that are intended to protect health and the environment CV33.
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