CV Pandemic Daily Notes 201001

CV05. Economics: Utility Bills, CV20. Communication: CDC Over Complex Messaging, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Wildfire then Covid, CV22. Longue Duree: Pandemic and Social Shift, CV27. Learning: School Status, CV28. Logistics: Fast Food Times, CV30. Methodology: BYU Folklore Project, New Customs, CV31. Futuring: Imagining the Future, CV33. Legal: Increasing Fines

PDN Introduction.

CV05. Economics: Millions of Americans Risk Losing Power and Water as Massive, Unpaid Utility Bills Pile Up. This Tuesday marked 67 days of darkness. He fell behind on his utility bills in the spring – and his lights went off, and stayed off, starting at the end of July. No power meant no refrigerator, so the 62 year old with diabetes had no choice but to store his temperature sensitive insulin on ice in a small cooler. He didn’t have an easy way to cook at home, either, so his wife took to preparing some meals for him in a neighbor’s kitchen.

CV20. Communication: CDC’s Virus Messaging Is Too Complicated to Trust. Part of this maybe because complex reading is the only way to sneak information past gubergenic censors.

CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: A Family of 7 Lost Their Home in Washington's Wildfires. Then They All Got Covid-19.

CV22. Longue Duree: How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts. Before March of this year, few probably thought disease could be a significant driver of human history. Not so anymore. People are beginning to understand that the little changes COVID-19 has already ushered in or accelerated – telemedicine, remote work, social distancing, the death of the handshake, online shopping, the virtual disappearance of cash and so on – have begun to change their way of life. They may not be sure whether these changes will outlive the pandemic. And they may be uncertain whether these changes are for good or ill.

CV27. Learning: DeSantis Still Thinks We Have a Right to Give Each Other Covid in Florida. This Time, It’s Students. New Dashboard Tracks Coronavirus Cases in Schools Across 47 States. School Attendance in the Covid Era: What Counts as Present. Education Department's Child Abuse Outreach During Covid Doesn't Go Far Enough. Feds to Ship Millions of Tests in Bid to Reopen K-12 Schools. Many Arkansas Teachers Refuse In Person Classes amid Covid-19 Concerns. Texas Officials Rescind Data on Covid Spread in School Districts. I’ve Had Worse Cases of the Flu. Then Covid-19 Took Hold and Arkansas Educator Died. The White House Reportedly Pressured the CDC to Downplay COVID Risk in Schools. Texas Teacher Loses Job for Wearing 'Black Lives Matter' Mask. Some Parents Are Sending Kids with Covid-19 to Class. What Can Schools Do about It. Parents Knowingly Sent Kids with Coronavirus to School, Wisconsin Officials Say. Whitmer Orders K-5 Students to Wear Masks in Michigan Listicle. 200924-CV27.

CV28. Logistics: Drive thru Times at Fast Food Chains Slow by Nearly 30 Seconds as Demand Soars During Pandemic. However digital menu boards, that 23% of locations were using, resulted in faster drive thru times, shaving off an average of 12.3 seconds.

CV30. Methodology: How the Coronavirus Has Reshaped LDS Missionaries and Members as They Find New Meaning in a New Normal . Missionaries suddenly streaming home before their end dates. Weekly worship services being discontinued. Temples closing. Brigham Young University moving online. The campus evacuating its students. Like so many worldwide disruptions last spring, COVID-19 was radically reshaping Latter Day Saint rituals and communities – and BYU folklore archivist Christine Blythe felt an urgency to document the transformations. Interest here is not LDS per se, but the collection method of more direct contact with informants, rather than the open source method used by Parademic.

            -A. Quote: Folklore usually is expressed in and is given color by the groups to which we belong; it can serve, therefore, as a means of understanding and increasing our sympathy for these groups. But the source of the lore, we should always remember, lies not in our differences, but in our common human struggle to endure. – William A. Wilson

            -B. Five Covid Customs That Emerged During Lockdown. For many people, the word folklore is synonymous with the past: beliefs at odds with contemporary society; myth and legend, even magic. 1) Window displays. 2) Scarecrows. 3) Painted pebbles, stone snakes. 4) Kerbside gifts. 5) Doorstep noise.

CV31. Futuring: How Our Imaginations Can Help Decide Earth's Future. There's no shortage of scientific studies projecting a bleak future for the planet and her people, but none have led to real change. It's clear we need better ways to envisage the futures we want.

CV33. Legal: Will Increasing Fines Make People Comply with Coronavirus Rules.