CV02. Humor: Faceless Mask, CV03. Information: PreBunking, Online Game, CV04. Politics: Nature Magazine, CV05. Economics: $16T Price Tag, CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Lakers Bubble Final, CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: Random is Matter of Perspective, CV11. Exploitation: Rectal Ozone, CV20. Communication: India, Quarantine Stigma, CV22. Longue Duree: Black Vaccine Backlash, CV24. Norms: Still Being Normal in Brazil, CV27. Learning: School Tracking
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CV02. Humor: Mask Accidentally Leaves House Without Face CV01.
CV03. Information: Game 'Pre Bunks' Covid-19 Conspiracies as Part of Uk's Fight Against Fake News. The new online game that puts players in the shoes of a purveyor of fake pandemic news is the latest tactic in efforts to tackle the deluge of coronavirus misinformation costing lives across the world. CV19.
-A. MORE: Pre Bunking Rises Ahead of the 2020 Election. Oct 2022 False Information Is Everywhere. 'Pre Bunking' Tries to Head it off Early.
CV04. Politics: Why Nature Needs to Cover Politics Now More than Ever. Science and politics have always depended on each other. The decisions and actions of politicians affect research funding and research-policy priorities. At the same time, science and research inform and shape a spectrum of public policies, from environmental protection to data ethics. The actions of politicians affect the higher-education environment, too. They can ensure that academic freedom is upheld, and commit institutions to work harder to protect equality, diversity and inclusion, and to give more space to voices from previously marginalized communities. However, politicians also have the power to pass laws that do the opposite.
-A. The coronavirus pandemic, which has taken more than one million lives so far, has propelled the science/ politics relationship into the public arena as never before, and highlighted some serious problems. COVID related research is being produced at a rate unprecedented for an infectious disease, and there is, rightly, intense worldwide interest in how political leaders are using science to guide their decisions – and how some are misunderstanding, misusing or suppressing it. And there is much interest in the fluctuating relationship between politicians and the scientists who governments consult or employ.
CV05. Economics: Parademic often makes the point that preparation and mitigation will usually cost far less than not being ready for an inevitable biocalamity. We now have a price tag for CV. The Covid-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus.
CV08. Entertainment, Recreation: Lakers Win NBA Finals; No Coronavirus Cases Reported in Bubble.
-A. MORE: NBA Figures They Garnered Enough Praise to Let All the Players Get Covid Now CV02. NBA: 48 Players Positive for Coronavirus as Testing Resumes.
CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: The acceleration of biocalamities always seem chaotic at first, but eventually patterns emerge, even if complicated by negative parademic. From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it. – Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits
CV11. Exploitation: Rectal Ozone: Injecting Ozone up One’s Nether Regions to Treat Covid-19. Quacks really are advocating the use of rectal ozone to treat COVID-19, thus demonstrating that nothing is too ridiculous for them, or how gullible their “patients” are. Unknown if this was one of the experimental treatments used for Trump.
CV20. Communication: Delhi Stops Displaying Notices at Homes of Covid-19 Patients Because of Stigma, which has amplified the social stigma associated with the disease and in turn caused others to hide their illness. Early on during the outbreak in the Indian capital, officials would paste a poster on the homes of people in quarantine after they had tested positive for the virus to make sure everyone in the neighbourhood was careful. It also deterred people from violating the quarantine. But more than six months into the pandemic people were fully aware of COVID-19, and there was less need to publicise the cases. Instead it was important to instil confidence in people to come forward and test themselves. 201003-CV18.
-A. MORE: Covid-19 Situation in Delhi Unprecedented, Says Niti Aayog but Govt Won’t Impose Lockdown. India Coronavirus: How a Group of Volunteers Exposed Hidden Covid-19 Deaths.
CV22. Longue Duree: Two Black University Leaders Urged Their Campuses to Join a Covid-19 Vaccine Trial. The Backlash Was Swift. The presidents of two historically Black universities in New Orleans thought they were doing a public service by enrolling in a Covid-19 vaccine clinical trial back in August, so much so they urged their campus communities to consider doing the same. were stunned by the fierce backlash that followed their joint letter to faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Hundreds of outraged commenters flooded their schools’ social media. “Our children are not lab rats for drug companies”, said one post. “I can’t believe a HBCU would do this to our people,” said another reply. “Tuskegee, Tuskegee 200510-CV22. … Me and mine aren’t first in line,” in another response. Antivaxers Are Targeting Minorities with Their Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories, 191110-4. 201216-CV01.
-*A. MORE: Tuskegee University was the first important Afro American institution of higher learning. Founded by Booker T. Washington, the school has a illustrious academic reputation, historically famous for the Tuskegee Airmen, and infamous for a syphilis study.
CV24. Norms: Many of the problems in control and containment of CV can be traced to trying to do what is normal in abnormal situations. Brazil Catholics Drawn to Worship Despite Downsized Services. Inside, there was nothing massive about the Mass: Just 1,000 people were spaced carefully across the pews of a vast basilica that normally holds 35,000 as the Roman Catholic Church tried to protect parishioners from the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet such caution wasn’t apparent outside the doors. Thousands of people found themselves unable to stay away from Aparecida on one of the most important weekends of the Brazilian church’s calendar, the celebration of the country’s patron saint.
-A. A similar scene played out far to the north in Belem, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where even the formal cancelation of a usually immense religious celebration didn’t discourage some worshippers underscoring the churchs challenge of trying to practice precautions at a time when many Brazilians are weary of them.
-B. Brazilian Soccer Game Goes Ahead Despite Covid-19 Outbreak. Brazil’s virus death toll surpasses 150,000. Brazil Strains at Quarantine as Virus Cases Pass 5 Million. 200925-CV29.
CV27. Learning: Schools Are 2 Months into Reopening under Covid-19 and No One's Officially Keeping Track of How It's Going.
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