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-1. Priorities for System Shutdown, 2. Sharing Science Research, 3. Brain Computer Interface, 4. Pretending to Shop in Canada, 5. Invasive Species, Lanternfly
-1. In a situation more serious than CV – that is one with rapid population decline, loss a labor force and expertise, widespread shortages due to failure of distribution and manufacture, fast economic decline, and likely political disruption – There needs to be consideration for shutdown. This is not the temporary shutdown seen during CV – though frankly it would have been more immediate, widespread, longer lasting and not as ad hoc – but a shutdown of physical and social systems.
-A. There are five triage considerations of system shutdown: 1) Immediate and/or temporary of systems that are likely to be contributing to spread, virulence, and are crucial for continuity in the aftermath the biocalamity, or if maintenance of the system will divert from crucial systems needed for sustainment and recovery. 2) Some systems can be easily shut down, and will require either minimum maintenance for future restart, or can endure delayed maintenance for a long duration. 3) Other systems will require a more permanent shut down (mothballed), but done in a way that it will be possible to restart, to include related knowledge. These are not crucial for survival of society, but have alternatives, at the same time provisions need to be made for individuals who are dependent on the system as either employment or for their service needs. 4) In some cases there can be a determination that the system itself is no longer needed and will not be needed in the future. Is some cases these are institutionalized habits that are maintained even though no longer serving any purpose, and likely the most resistant to being shutdown. These can be left to deteriorate, though care needs be taken that as the system erodes it does not create health and environment hazards. 5) Last there are systems that may need to be destroyed as they are in themselves dangerous and cannot be secured without risk of serious harm or being used belligerently. Nuclear reactors would be an example.
-B. When considering what category a systems triages under there are five steps: 1) Identify what is critical for life support now, and how those will change over time as a biocalamity continues. 2) Identify what is threatened, not specifically the health or environmental agent, but what threatens a system by either the myphetic agent(s), or by the containment and contol measures. This can be loss of a supply source, power, personnel, storage space, routes, etc. 3) Verify what vulnerabilities there are to an exisiting threat, for example a building and access to it may not be vulnerable to a flood, but drinking water to the building can be contaminated. 4) Do a risk assessment, the probability of an event happening, and the level of damage that will happen, analyze the risk. 5) Develop and apply mitigation and countermeasures. 6) Recognize that there are some things that are beyond a single company, or nation to solve. This is when collaboration is needed to mitigate, produce and implement solutions, and sharing resources that may not be useful to one group, but critical to others.
-C. Like all planning, the is best done before need, implemented before harm, and then revised during the bioevent to assure that planning done without the feedback of an actual event still apply. Avoid using step by step or phase plans for biocalamity. That type of thinking tends to lead people to believe that one task is over and its time to move to the next. Biocalamities are living systems, or thrive on living systems, and tend to ignore human plans of what should happen.
-D. POST COLLECTIO: A concept that has been expressed before in parademic, but not covered during the first year of CV is that shutdown applies to not just technology and businesses. It also includes Arts, Monuments, Archives =2=, Cultural Heritage to include archaeology sites, museums, collections, information, music, laboratories, research. Saving these for a future renaissance will be a more difficult triage as preservation will in many cases be more difficult to provide safe, secure and long term storage*, to include explanations of value. Indeed, convincing people during a high intensity biocalamity to divert resources for preservation, much less to prepare well in advance, will be difficult. This is especially the case if moral panics against elites, wealth, past, science, gain momentum. *MORE: and storing is such a way that they can be revived, Putting Planes in Hibernation Is Complicated; Waking Them Up Is Even Harder, Which Cruise Ships Will Be Scrapped or Taken out of Service Because of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
-2. Scientists Don't Share Their Findings for Fun – They Want Their Research to Make a Difference. Scientists don't take time away from their research to share their expertise with journalists, policymakers and everyone else just to let us know about neat scientific facts.
-3. Elon Musk Is One Step Closer to Connecting a Computer to Your Brain. Elon Musk Wants to Hook Your Brain Directly up to Computers – Starting next Year. Elon Musk Wants You to Build a Brain Computer Interface. Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Neuroscience Theater. Neurotechnology, Elon Musk and the Goal of Human Enhancement. Though still some time off before the technology is developed, and possibly longer before wide spread acceptance (and ability to accept), this has implications of health and environment. What if the closely interacting technosphere and biosphere, become interfaced.
-A. MORE: Dec 2022 Dr. Fauci Denounces 'Lowlife' Trolls for Harassing His Wife and Daughters and Says Disagreeing with Trump 'Triggered a Lot of Hostility'. Elon Musk Calls for Dr. Fauci to Be Prosecuted Weeks after Twitter Halts Covid-19 Misinformation Policy. Elon Musk Wants to Demystify Icon Dr. Fauci at All Costs, Elon Musk Tweet Calling for Fauci to Be Prosecuted Draws Backlash, Applause. Elon Musk’s Future as Twitter Ceo Is Suddenly in Question, he asked users if he should step down a majority said yes. | DeSantis Calls for Grand Jury to Investigate Covid Vaccines. Hear Fauci’s Response. Fauci Responds to DeSantis’s Call for Covid-19 Vaccine Investigation, ‘There’s a Zero Gain’: Desantis’ Choice for Vaccine Grand Jury a Waste of Money, Attorney Says.
-4. Trump Approves Final Plan to Import Drugs from Canada for a Fraction of the Price. Likely to get a negative Canadian reaction that could prevent drug sales to the US. This is not the first time Trump has signed something for show that does nothing =2= =3= =4=, sometimes the same order several times *B.
-A. Poll Finds That 80% of Canadians Want the US-Canada Border to Stay Closed for the Rest of the Year, as the Coronavirus Pandemic Rages on in the US. As Coronavirus Covid-19 Rages next Door in the US, Canada Hopes to Avoid Disaster by Keeping its Border Closed. Kentucky Man Accused of Breaking Canada's Covid-19 Rules Faces $560,000 Fine. Covid-19 Built a Northern Wall Between the US and Canada and it Could Stay up Longer than Anyone Expected. Americans, Go Home: Canadians Track U.S. Boaters Sneaking Across the Border. The Canada - U.S. Border Could Be Closed for Months. Here's What You Need to Know Now. 200809-CV23, 200714-CV25, 200508-CV12E. MORE: Canada's Taking it Slow on Reopening its Border to Travelers from the U.S. Here's Why.
-B. Canadian Drug Distributors Say No to Trump Import Plan, Trump Plan Would Allow States to Import Drugs from Canada, Trump Signs Order Pushing to Allow Drugs to Be Imported from Canada, Plan to Import Cheaper Canadian Drugs Advances under Trump. <ADDED 190818-190210-1.1>8, <ADDED 190804-190210-1.1>4. White House Doesn't Back DeSantis on Drug Importation from Canada.
-C. MORE: Perspectives: Trump's Drug Pricing Order; Profiteering on Covid Drugs Listicle. Canada Blocks Bulk Exports of Some Prescription Drugs in Response to Trump Import Plan. Canada Restricts Export of Prescription Drugs in Limited Supply.
-5. Invasive species and other pests are becoming an increasing and more frequent problem that tends to be ignored until after acceleration. Can Scientists Stop the Plague of the Spotted Lanternfly. The voracious, shape shifting insect native to Asia is attacking crops, vineyards and trees ADDED: Why Tree Killing Epidemics Are on the Rise.
-A. MORE: Quote; Ah, what an age it is, when to speak of trees is almost a crime. – To Posterity, Bertolt Brecht. Sep 2022 In the Great Lakes, the Pandemic Disrupted Sea Lamprey Control.
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