CV01. Protection: Next Holidays, Santa, CV04. Politics: Moving $445 Billion Relief, CV06. Linguistics: Falling Numbers Doesn't Mean Relax, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Ideological Pseudoscience, Accelerating Pandemic, CV22. Longue Duree: Eugenics, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Russia Vaccinating Armed Forces, CV26. Environment, One Health: Zombie Mink, CV28. Logistics: Overwhelmed Hospitals
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CV01. Protection: Chanukah and Christmas are the next two large holidays coming up that could be super spreader events as well as a confluence of the current trend peak, cold weather, lack of medical resources, continued inaction by government, misinformation, and another surge from Thanksgiving. In Santa’s Mailbag, a Peek into Children’s Pandemic Worries. | Is Santa Claus Coming to Town. Mall Santas May Lose Gigs in First Holiday Season since the Covid-19 Pandemic. UK Queen Furious after Staff Refuse to Stay in Her Covid Bubble over Christmas. Santa Will Still Meet Kids at Malls this Holiday Season – but His Lap Is off Limits. Christmas Without Santa Claus. He Won't Be at NYC Macy's for First Time in Almost 160 Years. Trump Administration Scraps Santa Claus Coronavirus Vaccine Plan =2=. As Holidays Near, the Coronavirus Is Spreading Rapidly, Putting Families in a Quandary about Celebrations and Travel CV25. Belgium Exempts Gift Bearing St Nicholas from Virus Measures. When Christmas Was Cancelled: A Lesson from History CV22. Here Comes Santa Claus - with Face Masks and Plexiglass. Pandemic Nixes Holiday Wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington National Cemetery Reverses Course, Allows Wreaths Across America amid Pandemic. Tips for Telling Your Family You’re Not Coming Home for the Holidays CV02 Video. [Cartoon =2=]. Coronavirus Can't Stop NORAD from Tracking Santa this Christmas. Fauci Says Santa Claus Won't Be Spreading Coronavirus Due to Innate Immunity, but those playing Santa could spread CV, Fauci Says Santa Immune to Coronavirus CV02. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland Aim to Ease Covid Rules for Christmas =2=. Palestinians May Limit Christmas Celebrations in Bethlehem, Covid Recommendations May Limit Christmas Celebrations in Bethlehem. German States Favour Extending Covid-19 Lockdown to Boost Christmas Prospects, ADDED Germany Should Not Ease Lockdown over Christmas, Says Top Doctor. With less Money in its Red Kettles, the Salvation Army Rallies to Save the Holidays. New York City SantaCon Canceled Due to Covid Pandemic. Fauci: Pandemic Likely Won't Improve by Christmas, New Year's. Holiday Shopping as We Know it Is over – Just Ask Seasonal Workers. Many Turn to Real Christmas Trees as Bright Spot amid Virus. 200925-CV28.
-A. ADDED Couple Delivering Christmas Presents to Family Stopped by Police for Breaking Coronavirus Laws CV18, Sky News Australia.
CV04. Politics: Mnuchin Plans to Move $455B in Coronavirus Relief out of Biden's Reach. 201125-CV04.
CV06. Linguistics: WHO: Countries with Falling Covid-19 Numbers Still Need to Be Vigilant. Vigilant however is not the same as prevention. There may be intense monitoring and surveillance for cases, but by the time those cases are found there are likely to be four other cases that are not yet located, and which will have time to infected four more each. In fact in a storm like CV troughs usually indicate a following peak. A Precarious Point: Covid Cases Surge in Canada's Prairies after Relaxed Approach.
CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Anti Lockdown Ideologues’ “Science” Is Now as Bad as Antivaccine “Science”. Anti lockdown & mask ideologues are now falling prey to the ecological fallacy in their bad epidemiological studies in the same way antivaxxers have been doing for years. Cranks gonna crank, I guess.
-A. This all leads directly to, The US Surpassed 13 Million Covid-19 Cases – less than a Week after Hitting 12 Million Cases, but that figure might be significantly lower than the actual number. U.S. Counts 13M Covid-19 Cases, its Fourth Million Milestone of November. Holiday Season Starts under Pall of More than 100,000 New Covid-19 Cases. And 20 States Did Not Report Numbers on Thanksgiving Day. CV28↓.
-B. ADDED A Covid Vaccine Can Save America – but Not If We Can't Convince Americans It's Safe. US Is 'Rounding the Corner into a Calamity,' Expert Says, with Covid-19 Deaths Projected to Double Soon.
CV22. Longue Duree: There is a long history of using science to justify unethical practices. Covid-19 and Intimations of Eugenics under the Guise of Bioethics. Confronting Racist Eugenics in the Pandemic. The pandemic has revealed continuing discrimination against racial and sexual minorities, poor people, and others regarded as less important by the power structure of our world. Covid-19 and Eugenics in 2020. Covid-19 Shows Republicans’ Commitment to Eugenics.
CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Russia to Vaccinate Armed Forces Against Covid-19 as New Cases Hit Daily Record. A great deal can be learned from choices made on who to vaccinate first, and other choices that are made. 201119-CV19, 201116-CV06. Moscow Turns Ice Rink into Hospital as Russia's Covid-19 Cases Hit Record, there will likely be more about temporary hospitals. Russia’s Health System under Strain as the Virus Surges Back. Putin Can't Take Russia's Safe Covid-19 Vaccine, Kremlin Says. 201028-CV23 -A, 201027-CV01 -A, 201022-CV23 -A.
CV26. Environment, One Health: Escaped Infected Danish Mink Could Spread Covid in Wild, fur farm animals in wild could create lasting Covid reservoir that could then spread back to humans. | Dead Mink Infected with a Mutated Form of Covid-19 Rise from Graves after Mass Culling, Culled Mink Resurface after Burial in Denmark, Zombie Minks in Denmark That Were Killed to Stop Spread of Coronavirus Appear to Rise from Their Graves, Denmark Wants to Dig up Zombie Mink That Resurfaced from Mass Graves, to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. 201119-CV26. ADDED Oregon Mink Farm Has Covid-19 Outbreak after Advocates Warned of Danger in State.
CV28. Logistics: U.S. Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19 Surpass 90,000 Ahead of Expected Case Surge, after nearly doubling in the last month, just as holiday gatherings are expected to propel the next wave of infections. Near Crisis, Some Hospitals Face Tough Decisions in Caring for Floods of Patients, US Sets Record for Covid-19 Hospitalizations amid Fall Surge. In other words the health care system is near the breaking point and will collapse before there is a major surge of more cases needing hospital level care. CV21A↑. ADDED [Cartoon].
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