CV04. Politics: Voting Issues, Terror, Economics, Pandemic, CV06. Linguistics: Military Metaphor, Antimicrobial Resistance, CV11. Exploitation: Missing Masks and Money, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Sick Leave Policy, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Public Relations Mistake, CV20. Communication: Poorly Constructed Headline, Linking Terror Attack to Lockdown, CV24. Norms: Blaming, CV27. Learning: Washington, Reclosing Schools, CV28. Logistics: Trucking, Breathing and Oxygen, CV33. Legal: Limiting California Governor, CV33.1. Detroit, Suspended Juries, CV33.2. Dismissed Amazon Suit
PDN Introduction.
CV04. Politics: Protecting Against Terrorism Ranked as No. 1 Issue for Trump Voters, While Biden Supporters Focused on Containing Covid-19 =2=. Presumably foreign (immigrant, non Christian, non White) terrorists, not the domestic ones who have enabled CV spread.
-A. ADDED Science Was on the Ballot: How Can Public Health Recover from a Rebuke at the Polls, the 2020 election results were a disaster for public health. A Biden Win and Republican Senate Might Lead to Gridlock on Health Issues. Next President Will Need to Repair Trust in Health Agencies. Partisan Differences in Physical Distancing Are Linked to Health Outcomes During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
-B. MORE: How Biden Could Quickly Undo Trump Era Health Policies.
CV06. Linguistics: Beyond the Military Metaphor: Comparing Antimicrobial Resistance and the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom. Military CV23 metaphors shape the limits and possibilities for conceptualising and responding to complex challenges of contagion. Although they are effective at communicating risk and urgency and at mobilising resources, military metaphors collapse diverse interests and communities into ‘fronts’, obscure alternative responses, and promote human exceptionalism. In this article, I draw from criticisms of the use of military metaphor in scientific and policy descriptions of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) over the past sixty years on order to compare with and explore the use of military metaphors in descriptions of the Covid-19 pandemic. As AMR research has recognised the importance of symbiotic human microbe relationships and new areas of interdisciplinary collaboration in recent years, a corresponding decline in the use of military metaphor in scientific discourse has begun to emerge. I ask how the legacy of the military metaphor in AMR research can offer lessons regarding or alternatives to the martial language currently saturating responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK.
CV11. Exploitation: Millions of Masks 'Missing' after £45M PPE Deal Collapses amid Fraud Allegations.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Employers Are Rethinking Sick Leave, Work from Home Policies to Protect Covid-19 Long Haulers.
-A. MORE: Working from Home During Covid-19: What Do Employees Really Want. Search terms are Work, Home and Remote, going back only one month: 201102-CV32.1, 201030-CV32, 201027-CV01A, 201025-CV27, 201021-CV25, 201005-CV05, 201001-CV22.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Trump’s Closing Message on Covid-19: My Only Mistake Was Mishandling Public Relations.
CV20. Communication: Terror Attack in Vienna Leaves Several Dead, More Than a Dozen Injured Hours Before Country Entered Coronavirus Lockdown. Example of a terrible headline in that it implies a connection between the terrorism and the lockdown.
CV24. Norms: Finding someone or thing to blame is normal in parademic. Who Is to Blame for the Coronavirus, is it China, the president or someone else. I have never heard of a president or any other elected official being blamed for a disaster. The president doesn't cause an earthquake, hurricane, or tornado. The blame for these events comes not from the cause. But the blame can come for the response. You only have to ask President George W. Bush about Hurricane Katrina. He was not blamed for anything to do with the wind, flooding and someone losing the roof on their home. The blame came to roost over the response of the federal government to the impacts of the disaster on people and the slow action to remedy the plight of people who were not able to evacuate from New Orleans.
CV27. Learning: Washington Schools Reverse Reopening Plans amid Covid Surge. Educators are worried about the turmoil that would be caused by reopening and then closing down again. Missing from the conversation is a serious look at how schools will contain cases when they arise in classrooms. 201020-CV27.
-A. One of the many self inflicted loops of the CV parademic: surge in cases at schools, close school and try to switch to remote or other means, disruption of education, complaints, cases go down, schools reopen, cases surge again. Unlikely that this self inflicted problem will be corrected until political/ economic agenda’s are separated from educational realities. The separation of church and state from learning has never been achieved in human history.
-B. POST COLLECTIO: In the future of online education it will probably be brought up the overall online education failed. Is this because remote education does not work, or that there was no preparation time to put in the infrastructure, and students were not taught how to learn in that environment.
CV28. Logistics: The Truckers Who Keep India's Coronavirus Patients Breathing.
CV33. Legal: Judge Rules to Limit California Governor Powers amid Pandemic. Yuba/ Sutter May Be Moved Back to More Restrictive Purple Tier. California Is No Longer Most Infected State in U.S.
CV33.1. With Coronavirus Cases on the Rise, Detroit Court Suspends Jury Trials until next Year.
CV33.2. Judge Dismisses Amazon Workers’ Suit Alleging Insufficient Covid-19 Protections.
-A. MORE: Amazon Fined $500,000 for Concealing Covid Cases from Workers CV02. Dec 2021 AmazonSmile Donated More than $40,000 to Anti Vaccine Groups in 2020 CV02, and note that the American Voices from the Onion Magazine are satirical man on street interviews of real news events, but are sometimes accepted as real news (Poe’s Law).
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