CV05. Economics: Million Dollar Home Sales, CV06. Linguistics: Zipfing Covid-19, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Isolation Rag, CV13. Outliers: Clusters, CV15. Death: Florida's Questionable Mortality Numbers, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Reinventing Antivax, CV20. Communication: Lying Does Not Avoid Panic, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Russia Continues Disinformation, CV24. Norms: Women Unemployment, CV28. Logistics: Germany, Hoarding, CV33. Legal: Illinois, Police Patrols to Quell Surge
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CV05. Economics: Housing Boom: Sales of Million Dollar Homes Double. The pandemic is driving a major boom in the housing market that's records and exposing a very uneven economic recovery between the haves and the have nots. Millions of people are working from home while juggling their kids' remote schooling. Many who can afford to are buying bigger houses. If the trend continues, the country will see a further "divergence in society where you have the haves, with homeownership gaining their equity, and those people who would like to become homeowners continually being frustrated, unable to reach that goal of owning a home. 201011-CV32, 200630-CV18.
-A. MORE: Americans Are Losing Confidence in the Housing Market as Covid-19 Pandemic Rages On. The housing market was variable, with some areas that were perceived as relatively safe becoming more expensive, while other areas tumbled down.
CV06. Linguistics: Have noted that Covid-19 is gradually disappearing as a word, replaced with Covid or Coronavirus. This would seem to violate Zipf’s law, except that the written sources I see may have a two stroke macro, so the length of the word no longer matters, while is continued frequency of use demands a bit of variety to avoid being dismissed. The term Chinese Virus appears to be idiosyncratic, and a dog whistle for a small minority, rarely used in public media.
CV09. Arts, Creativity: Writing the “Isolation Rag” – a Composer Reflects on His Experience Making Music During a Pandemic. Gil Shaham - Isolation Rag.
CV13. Outliers: Communities with Covid-19 Clusters to Get Asterisk on Health Reports. The weekly town risk map will identify if a municipality's positive cases have been significantly impacted by a clearly identified cluster.
-A. Clusters are an important concept in epidemiology and parademic. The concern that an isolated cluster may skew a whole community as being red or not is legitimate, but misses the point. The infections, whether a pathogen or ideology had to enter what became the cluster from somewhere at some time, and it likely moved beyond the cluster before the cluster was identified and contact tracing completed. Even if the cluster is isolated before hand, and quarantined immediately, there has to be sufficient time to verify that is has been contained. Officials Warn Families of Covid-19 Carpool Clusters.
CV15. Death: Florida’s Surgeon General Raises Questions about Covid-19 Death Data. 200722-CV29, 200613-CV20A. Florida gubergenic has been probably manipulating numbers for months.
-A. MORE: How Many Floridians Really Have Died from Covid-19. Are Floridians getting an accurate picture of who is dying from Covid-19 and when. Not likely.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Stressing Freedom, Vaccine Opponents Rebranding in Virus Era. Years before this year's anti mask and reopening demonstrations, vaccine opponents were working on reinventing their image around a rallying cry of civil liberties and medical freedom. CV23↓ CV33↓.
CV20. Communication: Dr. Fauci: Not Being Transparent about Covid-19 Because You Don’t Want to Alarm People Is Totally Nonsense. Panic 200921-CV17, 200917-CV01, 200909-CV18 -A -B -D, 200807-CV20, 200727-CV11, 200717-CV01, 200706-CV01.1B (to be added later), 200704-CV20, 200524-CV16.1, 200508-CV28, 200428-CV29A, 200403-CV25. CV28↓.
CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Russia Continues to Spread Coronavirus Conspiracies, Intel Bulletin Warns. From a national security perspective it is highly disconcerting to see a growing number of instances in which these conspiracies promoted by Russia have been mimicked by the president and his supporters CV18↑. Reported Russian Covid Vaccine Disinformation Reprehensible: UK's Raab, and its disinformation may be impacting on its own cases. 201004-4, 200912-CV23.1, 200831-CV01A, 200828-CV01B. Kremlin Dismisses Vaccine Disinformation Campaign Accusations as Circus. 200728-CV03.1, 200616-CV03, 200613-CV23.1, 200425-CV03, 200402-CV16, 200329-3.4A, 200326-CV11, 200322-2B‡, <CONT 200301-200112-2¶>10, <CONT 200223-200112-2¶>1K.
-A. MORE: The Russian Roots of Our Misinformation Problem. 201127-CV23. US: Russian Hackers Targeting State, Local Networks. How Russia, China, and Other Governments Use Coronavirus Disinformation to Reshape Geopolitics. Russia Launches Disinformation Campaign to Undermine Public Confidence in Oxford University’s Covid Vaccine, Don't Jump to Conclusions about the Oxford Vaccine Trial Suspension. 201127-CV23.
CV24. Norms: The Coronavirus Disproportionally Putting Women Out of Work. More than 1 in 10 parents of young children in New Jersey said they quit their jobs to help with childcare since the pandemic began, with women six times more impacted than men, according to a poll released last month. This is expected with men still earning more money than women, and the general incompetence of males in running households and parenting. Suspect however that will change drastically as the comparative advantages of females (who tend to fill the women gender roles) in a biocalamity become more apparent.
CV28. Logistics: Germans Start Hamstering Toilet Paper Again as Covid-19 Cases Surge. This will likely to lead to hoarding in other countries. CV20↑.
CV33. Legal: Illinois Governor Orders Police Patrols amid Covid Spikes, patrolling bars and restaurants in regions of the state where coronavirus numbers are surging CV18↑.
-A. Grenades, Bread and Body Bags: How Illinois Has Spent $1.6 Billion in Response to Covid-19 So Far CV05. The Illinois State Police asked for Covid-19 funds to cover $75,000 it had spent on 2,240 tear gas or other nonlethal grenades, 100 flash bang grenades and 1,400 projectiles used for crowd control, plus $30,000 in hotel rooms and dinners for troopers deployed to Chicago in late May and again in August amid civil unrest related to police violence.
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