CV Pandemic Daily Notes, 200727, 200728, 200729, 200730, 200731, 200801, 200802
-1. Chaos, 2. Promise to Destroy the Environment, 2.1. Denial Book, 3. Suspicion of Invasive Species Attack
-1. What is chaos: It is unpredictable. What should not happen, happens. Everything mixes with everything else. Randomness becomes so intense that there is no discernable pattern. Sense is lost. It is surreal. Stressful. Fear. Uncertainty. Complicated Complexities. Or maybe it is none of those things, but how one is having trouble interpreting an event, situation, information.
-A. Biocalamities certainly fill the bill of being chaotic. Who becomes sick and who losses their life appears random. Magical thinking becomes more pronounced. Explanations that worked before now fail. Behavior becomes chaotic in a biocalamity, whether the event is real, or perceived to be real. People act crazy, the worst behaviors become norms. There is desperation to find an explanation of what is and is not happening, and a solution or at least a sense of control. If a pandemic or other disaster is not chaotic, people are sure to make it so.
-B. What is known as chaos may only be the confusion of initial learning, adapting a new perspective, discovery that what was thought to be true is not. Often times the root of a chaotic situation may not have that many factors involved, simple in origin but with logarithmic growth and complexity. These are referred to as Strange Attractors =2= =3= =4=, for example only 4 organic characters – adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G) and cytosine (C) – make up DNA. Yet the whole chaos known as life is base on those 4 letters in different combinations, sequences, chains, and factors humans are as yet unaware of. Add to life a few organisms that have some awareness of self and their environment, and ones adds social chaos to nature’s chaos.
-C. Chaos is the crux of parademic. Sorting through assemblages of chaos until there are sufficient repeated and analogous behaviors that a pattern is discerned, and forecast of what range of behaviors are possible. Then one must gather more observations to verify that the perceived patterns are in fact patterns and not a rorschach of imposed meanings.
-2. Trump Pushes to Deliver on 2016 Campaign Pledge to Essentially "Get Rid Of" EPA. The experts who keep track of environmental rollbacks for Harvard’s Regulatory Tracker noticed an exceptionally long list in the updated Unified Regulatory Agenda, which details the administration's plans for new regulations and reversals. There are several big ticket items that are close to completion. 200712-2. Anti Climate Action Statements Get More Visibility in News Coverage.
-A. MORE: 6 Former EPA Bosses Call for Agency Reset after Election after Trump’s regulation chopping, industry minded first term, backing a detailed plan by former EPA staffers that ranges from renouncing political influence in regulation to boosting climate friendly electric vehicles
-2.1. Book Review: Bad Science and Bad Arguments Abound in 'Apocalypse Never' by Michael Shellenberger [Cover]. A new book that critiques environmentalism is deeply and fatally flawed. Seeks to counter and dismiss what he considers irrational, overwrought arguments of pending Malthusian catastrophes; instead, he seeks to promote the Cornucopian view that environmental problems can be eliminated if we’d just pursue aggressive economic growth, simple technological advances, and increased tapping of abundant natural resources.
-A. At the simplest level, it is a polemic based on a strawman argument: Scientists, educated elite, activist journalists, and high profile environmental activists believe incorrectly that the end of the world is coming and yet refuse to support the only solutions that he thinks will work – nuclear energy and uninhibited economic growth.
-3. Possible biological attack with invasive species, another marketing scam, paranoia about China spreading diseases. Mysterious Seeds Sent from China to Utah. Minnesotans Have Been Getting Unsolicited Packets of Seeds. Do Not Plant Them, Officials Warn. USDA Warns Mystery Seeds from China Could Be Part of Scam. [Cartoon]. USDA Investigates Packages of Unsolicited Seeds from China. USDA Identifies Several Seeds from Mysterious China Packets morning glory, hibiscus, roses, cabbage and herbs including mint, sage, rosemary and lavender, which are innocuous and probably not intended to cause harm but simple cheap seeds, but is some environments could cause major problems.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: In Feb 2023 The Government of China remained a suspected source of disease, by continuing its own actions of hindering WHOs investigation into the origin of CV, sending balloons over the US and threats to Taiwan and Pacific.
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