CV02. Humor: Tossing Masks, CV03. Information: Global, Susceptibility to Misinformation, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Motherhood and Pandemic, CV12.1. Casual Sex, CV19. Technosphere: Internet Restrictions, CV20. Communication: Film Your Hospital, CV22. Longue Duree: Current Understanding of Disease Propagation is Medieval, CV27. Learning: New Zealand, Taught in America
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CV02. Humor: Donald Trump Throwing Face Masks into a Rally Crowd Turns into a Mocking Meme. Trump Throwing Masks at the Press Invest Now.
CV03. Information: Susceptibility to Misinformation about Covid-19 Around the World. While belief in misinformation about COVID-19 is not held by a majority of people in any country that we examined, specific misinformation claims are consistently deemed reliable by a substantial segment of the public and pose a potential risk to public health. Crucially, we demonstrate a clear link, replicated internationally, between susceptibility to misinformation and vaccine hesitancy and a reduced likelihood of complying with public health guidance. We highlight the key role that scientists play as disseminators of factual and reliable information, as well as the potential importance of fostering numeracy and critical thinking skills as a way to reduce susceptibility to misinformation.
CV12. Personal, Relationships: Being a Mom Is Tough. Being a Mom in a Pandemic Is Even Tougher.
CV12.1. Has the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed Casual Sex Forever. 201003-CV33.1, 200729-CV12 -A.
CV19. Technosphere: Governments Are Using the Pandemic as an Excuse to Restrict Internet Freedom. In at least 20 countries, the pandemic was cited as a reason to introduce sweeping new restrictions on speech and arrest online critics. In 28, governments blocked websites or forced outlets, users, or platforms to censor information in order to suppress critical reporting, unfavorable health statistics, or other content related to the coronavirus. In at least 45 of the countries studied, people were arrested as a result of their online posts about Covid-19.
-A. Many countries are also conducting increasingly sweeping surveillance of their populations, with contact tracing or quarantine compliance apps particularly ripe for abuse in places like Bahrain, India, and Russia. In China, the authorities used high- and low-tech tools not just to manage the outbreak of the coronavirus, but also to stop people from sharing information and challenge the official narrative.
-B. MORE: Virus Besets Belarus Prisons Filled with President’s Critics.
CV20. Communication: Film Your Hospital – The Anatomy of a Covid-19 Conspiracy Theory. The #FilmYourHospital movement encouraged people to record videos of themselves in seemingly empty, or less than crowded, hospitals to prove the pandemic is a hoax. Many videos showing empty corridors and wards were shared. The most influential users connected to the hashtag was driven by influential conservative politicians as well as far right political activists. Once the conspiracy theory began to generate attention it was sustained by ordinary citizens. Political Leaders’ Views on Covid-19 Risk Are Highly Infectious in a Polarized Nation – We See the Same with Climate Change.
CV22. Longue Duree: Medieval Europeans Didn’t Understand How the Plague Spread. Their Response Wasn’t So Different from Ours Now.
-A. POST COLLECTIO: Out of curiosity I wondered about humor during the black death (plague) that has been mentioned several times in relation to Covid. How We Survived The Plague. Jokes Helped. Considering Humans Have Coped with Humour for Centuries; Did People Make Jokes about the Black Plague, or Was the Tragedy Simply Too Huge for Comedy. Laughing at the Devil: The Humor of Red Noses by Peter Barnes =2= =3= =4=, a stage play from the 1980's that would be appropriate for now but with the distance of history CV08.
CV27. Learning: How New Zealand Deputy PM Shut Down Covid-19 Coronavirus Denier: Obviously Got an Education in America.
-A. MORE: Delta Outbreak Exposes New Zealand's Low Vaccination Rates. New Zealand National Lockdown Extended as Covid Outbreak Spreads to Wellington, New Zealand Enters Lockdown after Single Covid Case Discovered CV02 =2=. New Zealand in Talks with Fast Food Restaurants to Offer Covid Vaccines to Customers CV02, New Zealand May Start Administering Vaccines to People as They Wait in Queues for Fast Food. Question; why a country that was so effective with masks, social distance and lockdowns has been reluctant about vaccination.
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