CV01. Protection: Assessing Risk Failures, CV02. Humor: Funny Tweets, CV03. Information: Polarization of Vaccine, CV07. Emergence: New Protective Helmet, Vietnam, CV07.1. Neighbors Sharing, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Football, CV08.1. Hollywood Reopening, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Returned Astronaut, CV15. Death: Taoist Memorial, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Trump Understood Pandemic Threat Last February, Woodward, CV25. Movement: Trusting Flying, CV25.1. Renting Cars, CV26. Environment, One Health: Disease and Environment, CV28. Logistics: Food Web Wholism, CV28.1. World Wide Delivery of Vaccine, CV30. Methodology: Understanding Human Behavior in Pandemic, CV31. Futuring: Sequella for Decades
PDN Introduction.
CV01. Protection: Why Human Brains Are Bad At Assessing the Risks of Pandemics. More than six months into a pandemic in the United States, we know a few things. We know that the novel coronavirus can be fatal, that it's passed via respiratory droplets, that masks and social distancing help stop its spread. And yet many Americans, weary of lockdowns, seem determined to return to social gatherings and other "normal" activities, even though experts have warned against this. Why do some take the threat of the virus more seriously than others. Humans Are Notoriously Bad at Assessing Their Risk. In a Pandemic, That’s a Problem. Life Is Now a Game of Risk. Here’s How Your Brain Is Processing It. 200828-CV03, 200621-1, 200607-1.1A, 200504-CV06.1A, 200428-CV05B, 200427-CV01A, 200417-CV18, 200405-7‡, 200315–2, 200301-1 -A -B, <200301-200112-2¶>5, 200209-1B‡.
-A. This problem of assessing the risk of bradyoccult biocalamities, especially when outside beliefs and empirical experience – to include events that has no warning, or those that has warning but nothing bad happened – has been noted frequently in the parademic database. This results in either overestimating, underestimating, alarming unnecessarily causing harm or downplaying causing avoidable harm.
-B. ADDED Use of Normal Risk to Improve Understanding of Dangers of Covid-19. How to Think about Coronavirus Risk in Your Life.
CV02. Humor: 10 of the Funniest Coronavirus Tweets We’ve Seen Today.
CV03. Information: A Conversation Divided: A Covid-19 Vaccine is Still in the Making, but Remarkable Polarization Between Traditional Media and Anti Science Sources has Already Emerged. [Cartoon]. ADDED Vaccine Confidence Volatile, Vulnerable to Misinformation, Global Study Finds.
CV07. Emergence: Snack, Scratch in Safety: New Covid-19 Helmet Brings Comfort to Frontline Workers.
CV07.1. Neighbors Are Gathering Online to Give and Get the Things They Need Right Now.
CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: High School Football: Beloved Fall Tradition or Unnecessary Coronavirus Risk CV27. 200903-CV04 -CV27A, 200816-CV17, 200811-CV15 Pros and Cons of Canceling College Football CV02. 200708-CV27B, 200616-CV06C.
-A. ADDED Kansas City Chiefs’ Stadium Capacity Lowered to 122% Ahead of Season Opener CV02. Return of Football Renews Fears over More Virus Spread. NFL Season Kicks off in Shadow of Covid-19, Player Protests.
CV12. Personal, Relationships: The NASA Astronaut Who Returned to a Pandemic Ridden Earth Life. Jessica Meir completed her space mission in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic after seven months on the International Space Station. Here, she reveals how it felt going from isolation to, well, isolation. Having watched the Covid developments from afar, Meir was understandably reluctant to come back to Earth. “I would have stayed up there, for sure”, she says. “The things I was looking forward to most, like hugging friends and going to restaurants, weren’t available to me”. In fact, most of her post space plans were cancelled thanks to the lockdown, which meant that she had plenty of time to think about how the experience had changed her.
CV15. Death: Taoist Priest Honours China’s Coronavirus Dead with Memorial Tablets.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Trump Admits Playing down Coronavirus's Severity, According to New Woodward Book, Trump Tells Woodward He Downplayed Coronavirus Video. Trump Consistently Bends Reality, Sells His Narrative in Interviews for Woodward Book. Carl Bernstein Says Bob Woodward's Revelations about Trump Are Graver than in Watergate. Trump Defends His Coronavirus Response, Saying He Sought to Avoid Panic. New Audio Proves It: Trump Deliberately Deceived America about the Coronavirus. Why Does Trump Sound So Different Talking about Covid-19 to Bob Woodward. He’s Telling the Truth. Forget Shooting Someone on Fifth Avenue. 190,000 Americans Are Dead Because Trump Wanted to ‘Play Down’ Coronavirus. this Is Deadly Stuff: Tapes Show Trump Acknowledging Virus Threat in February. Woodward Claims He Sat on Trump Coronavirus Remarks for 6 Months in Order to Do More Fact Checking.
-A. Trump Says Perhaps He Misled Public on Coronavirus to Reduce Panic. This is at odds with his behaviors that incite violence, panic and chaos. Trump Is Making a Mockery of Public Health. His Rally in North Carolina Demonstrated It. Panicker in Chief Claims He Lied about Covid-19 to Reduce Panic. This behavior is the consistent pattern per the historical record, to include other actions and statements in the earliest days of the CV Pandemic B↓.
-B. Trump Health Officials Deny That US Rejected WHO Diagnostic Test, credible gubergenic has denied health assessment from outside sources that don’t fit its narrative, and had cut health expertise out of decision making <CONT 200308-200112-2¶>2D. Historically citing panic as a reason to downplay the risk of an accelerating disease outbreak has rarely ended well, or avoided panic. However, Trump does have unique experience about panic and disease outbreak, he was the main figures of fear mongering for Ebola, so it well aware of the damage panic can cause. 170119 Trump Eponymity, 180301 BioTrumpism-1* -3.5 -5.2.
-C. Fauci Says Trump Did Not Distort Impact of the Pandemic. Trump Privately Called Coronavirus Deadly While Comparing it to Flu Publicly: Woodward Book. If one can understand why these are both true, then one has an understanding of how the same words CV06 can have different meaning to speakers and audiences, how one can be devious and misleading but not lying.
-D. ADDED White House and Trump Campaign Scramble to Respond to Woodward Revelations. Bret Baier Reacts to Woodward Book Fallout, Says Trump Has Unique Ability to Get Beyond These Moments. Trump Heads to Big Rally amid Virus, Woodward Book Fallout, Trump Revels in Packed Michigan Crowd amid Book Fallout. [Cartoon =2= =3=, Strip]. Was it Unethical for Bob Woodward to Withhold Trump’s Coronavirus Interviews for Months. Fox's Tucker Carlson Blames Lindsey Graham for Trump's Bob Woodward Interview, Suggests Sabotage. The Staggering Consequences of Trump's Coronavirus Lies. Covid Relief and the Misplaced Outrage about Rage. Trump’s “No Panic” Woodward Tapes Spin Would Be Easier to Buy If His Campaign Weren’t All about Panic. The Life Cycle of a Trump Lie Video CV02. Trump Attempts Damage Control by Sitting down for Dozen More Bob Woodward Interviews CV02. Behind Woodward’s September Surprise: White House Aides Saw a Train Wreck Coming, Then Jumped Aboard. Trump Lashes out at Woodward Book as a Political Hit Job as McEnany Defends President over Coronavirus Comments. Trump, While Defending His Downplaying of Coronavirus, Compares Himself to Churchill & Says US Has Done the Best Job Video, Trump Twists History of Churchill and FDR to Cover up Pandemic Denialism. The White House Said Trump Never Downplayed the Coronavirus and CNN Didn’t Mess Around. Trump Says Everyone Knew the Coronavirus Was Airborne in February: It's No Big Thing. Covid-19 Victim’s Daughter Responds to Trump: My Dad Did Not Panic, but Instead He Died. Trump Says His Misleading Coronavirus Comments Were Meant to Show Strength. Michigan Lt. Gov. On Trump’s Downplaying Coronavirus: We Would Have Been Able to Deploy PPE Faster Had We Known Video. Trump: I Didn't Lie to Americans about Coronavirus Risks, Trump Calls Question about Why He Lied about Covid-19 a Disgrace. Lieu on Trump Playing it down on Coronavirus: this Is Reckless Homicide.
CV25. Movement: Airlines Got Travelers Comfortable about Flying Again Once Before – but 9/11 and a Virus Are a Lot Different.
CV25.1. Experiencing Enterprise Rent A Car During COVID-19 Pandemic.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Climate Change, Infectious Disease Seen as Major Threats. We’ve Known for over a Century That Our Environment Shapes Our Health, So Why Are We Still Blaming Unhealthy Lifestyles.
CV28. Logistics: Food Connects to Absolutely Everything: New Marion Nestle Book Dives into Food Waste, Politics. On our changing relationship to food CV16 because of the pandemic. The discovery that there are completely different food supply chains in the United States that don't interact at all. Food piled up and was being destroyed at the same time that people who were out of work were lining up at food banks to get handouts of food. Sales of processed foods are going up because they have a long shelf life and they're cheap. But at the same time, people bought more seeds. They were growing more of their own foods. ADDED Global Food Prices Have Been Rising During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Hitting Food Security.
CV28.1. Covid Vaccine: 8,000 Jumbo Jets Needed to Deliver Doses Globally. Shipping a coronavirus vaccine around the world will be the largest transport challenge ever according to the airline industry. The equivalent of 8,000 Boeing 747s will be needed.
CV30. Methodology: Readers can imagine how frustrating it is for me to read this. How Behavioural Science Can Help Us Understand Human Behaviour During a Pandemic. When the day comes that the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, one of things that will remain with us is witnessing our fellow humans' irrational and sometimes extreme behavior – and perhaps our own as well. These included toilet paper shortages, publicly supporting lockdown measures while privately doing otherwise and large gatherings with little respect for social distancing. Gee, if only come up with something like parademic.
CV31. Futuring: Why the Pandemic Will Be a Long, Long Haul. Even with a vaccine and better treatments, COVID-19 will be damaging people’s health for decades.
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