CV01. Protection: Enforcing Protections, CV02. Humor: Vaccine Will Not Shrink You, CV03. Information: Data for Pandemic and Opioids, CV04. Politics: Biden Obama Staff, CV05. Economics: Long Haulers and Insurance, CV11. Exploitation: Vaccine Black Market, CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: UN and Chinese Propaganda, CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Climate and Pandemic, CV22. Longue Duree: Horse Flu, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Hacking the Cold Chain, CV27. Learning: Testing to Zero, CV28. Logistics: Smithfield Cold Taint, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Florida Waking Nightmare, CV30. Methodology: PDN Not Full Parademic, CV33. Legal: Fines for Violations
PDN Introduction.
CV01. Protection: Police: N. Carolina Store Owner Cited for Discouraging Masks. Staten Island Bar Shut down after Declaring Itself an 'Autonomous Zone' and Defying Covid-19 Rules, Sheriff's Office Says. CV33.
CV02. Humor: Exhausted Researchers Inform Public Covid Vaccine Won’t Shrink You down to Size of Ant.
-A. ADDED The Antivaccine Disinformation War Against Covid-19 Vaccines Continues Apace CV03 CV11 CV18. And Now for an Important Message: Convincing You to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine.
CV03. Information: Virginia Tackles Pandemic Response, Opioid Crisis with Data CV19.
CV04. Politics: Biden Picks Former Two Obama Administration Officials to Help Lead Covid-19 Response. Undoubtedly those who were against Obama will not find this comforting [Cartoon =A= =2=]. Biden Transition Adds New Members to Coronavirus Task Force. Fauci to Meet with Biden Team for First Time Thursday, Biden Says He Has Asked Fauci to Stay on and Join Covid-19 Team. 201125-CV04.
CV05. Economics: Hey, Covid-19 Long Haulers: Take Care in Shopping for Health Insurance. 201103-CV16, 201002-CV06, 200920-CV15.
CV11. Exploitation: There Absolutely Will be a Black Market: How the Rich and Privileged Can Skip the Line for Covid-19 Vaccines. Athletes, politicians, and other wealthy or well connected people have managed to get special treatment throughout the pandemic, including preferential access to testing and unapproved therapies. According too medical experts and ethicists early access to coronavirus vaccines is likely to be no different. It could happen in any number of ways, they said: fudging the definition of “essential workers” or “high risk” conditions, lobbying by influential industries, physicians caving to pressure to keep their patients happy (or just greed) 201202-CV25.1, and even through outright bribery or theft. How Rich Countries Are 'Hoarding' the World's Vaccines, in Charts, CV30↓ 201121-CV26.
CV18. Narrative, Social Reality: Continuation of the narrative (propaganda) that was used to justify withdrawal from WHO, Nearly 100 World Leaders Will Speak at a U.N. Session on Covid-19, U.S. Says U.N. Covid-19 Meeting Is Stage for Chinese Propaganda. 200426-CV15B. China has used propaganda on CV and against the US, but more as counter measures and to maintain its own nationalistic narratives. ADDED Despite the framing as rick versus poor, like any ethical questions this is no easy answer. Should one risk one’s own citizens by sharing a still finite resource with citizens of other nations. Could a richer country take other protective measures that are not available to other nations which would enhance its own biosecurity by assuring foreign reservoirs and contained.
CV21. Syndemic, Concurrent Disasters: Climate and Covid-19: Converging Crises. That health and climate change are interwoven is widely accepted, with extensive evidence of their interactions. For the past 5 years, the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change has monitored and reported more than 40 global indicators that measure the impact of our changing climate on health. The newly published 2020 report includes novel indicators on heat related mortality, migration and population displacement, urban green spaces, low carbon diets, and the economic costs of labour capacity loss due to extreme heat. The breadth of the indicators has deepened scientific understanding of how climate affects health and puts stress on health systems. This is manifested in, for example, the health effects of air pollution leading to asthma, challenges to global food security and reduced crop yield potentially leading to poor diets, limited access to green space increasing risk factors for mental health conditions, and vulnerability to heat in people older than 65 years. Treating these resultant health conditions effectively depends on health systems' capacity, which is in turn dependent on the resilience of health services that are increasingly stretched in response to the two crises. Australia Doctors Issue Heatwave Advice as Australia Navigates Covid-19 in Summer Months. ADDED The Scariest Thing about Global Warming (and Covid-19).
CV22. Longue Duree: How a Flu Virus Shut down the US Economy in 1872 – by Infecting Horses CV26.
CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: IBM Warns Hackers Targeting Covid Vaccine 'Cold Chain' Supply Process. IBM is sounding the alarm over hackers targeting companies critical to the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, a sign that digital spies are turning their attention to the complex logistical work involved in inoculating the world’s population against the novel Coronavirus. The information technology company said in a blog post published on Thursday that it had uncovered “a global phishing campaign” focused on organizations associated with the Covid-19 vaccine “cold chain” - the process needed to keep vaccine doses at extremely cold temperatures as they travel from manufacturers to people’s arms. CV19 CV28↓. 201201-CV28. CISA, FBI Warn of Imminent Cyberthreat to U.S. Hospitals. FBI Warns That Hackers Are Targeting Hospitals While Coronavirus Admissions Surge, 201026-CV23.1.
-A. ADDED As Hospitals Cope with a Covid-19 Surge, Cyber Threats Loom. Johnson & Johnson CISO: Healthcare Orgs Are Seeing Nation State Attacks Every Single Minute of Every Single Day.
CV27. Learning: Aggressive Testing at University Cuts Covid Rate to near Zero.
CV28. Logistics: U.S. Meatpacker Smithfield Foods Offers to Store Covid-19 Vaccines in Ultra Cold Freezers CV23↑. This offer may be somewhat tainted by previous history Coronavirus at Smithfield Pork Plant: The Untold Story of America's Biggest Outbreak, Workers Sue Smithfield Foods, Allege Conditions Put Them at Risk for Covid-19, 200730-CV28.1, 200509-CV28. | 200924-CV01 -A. Meatpackers Deny Workers Benefits for Covid-19 Deaths, Illnesses 200928-CV33. Chicken Plants Are More Dangerous Places to Work than Coal Mines. Covid-19 Has Exposed the Gross Exploitation of Meatpacking Workers. Tyson Foods Managers Allegedly Placed Bets on How Many Employees Would Contract Covid-19 =2=, Tyson Suspends Managers after Report That They Bet on Workers’ Covid Infections.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Florida Health Officials Ordered Not to Discuss Covid Publicly Leading up to Election, Report Says, reminds me about when Florida officials were ordered not to say climate change. | Florida Become the Third State to Cross 1 Million Covid-19 Cases. Florida Mayor Slams Gov DeSantis for Following Fringe Doctors As State's COVID Cases Surpass 1 Million. A Lot of People That Will Go to Their Grave if DeSantis Takes No Precaution Before a Vaccine Video. After Topping 1 Million, Florida Adds Nearly 10,000 More Covid-19 Cases and 97 Deaths. Secrecy and Spin: How Florida’s Governor Misled the Public on the Covid-19 Pandemic. 201123-CV29.
-A. ADDED DeSantis Planned to Publish Op Ed Telling Floridians Wearing a Mask Is Moral Thing to Do, but He Never Did. Top Trump Ally Ron DeSantis Allegedly Covered up Florida’s Negative Coronavirus Numbers Before Election.
CV30. Methodology: Have mentioned before that this last years PDN focus of CV is a simplified way to do parademic, at the cost of the full context to understand behavior, make forecasts, identify trends and counter trends. There was so much more that is needed to understand CV in the US, much less globally. For example U.S. Puts Convicted Killer to Death in 6th Federal Execution under Trump, DOJ Set to Execute 5 Federal Prisoners Before Inauguration Day, Trump Plan to Revive the Gallows, Electric Chair, Gas Chamber and Firing Squad Recalls a Troubled History, William Barr Celebrates Holidays by Giving Lethal Injections to Those less Fortunate CV02, provides insights into CV in prisons and immigration detention, lack of federal aid to vulnerable communities, default to punish rather than solve, scorched earth practices, lack of progress on opioids, inform policies, plan actions, and magical thinking. How Can We Be Pro Life and Pro Death Penalty at the Same Time. [Meme]. In a way this is like statistics where the larger and more diverse the sample/ trials the greater the accuracy. Very little of this will be useful for CV during 2021 except the same type of hindrances as 2020 will be continued, and there will be more morbidity, sequella and mortality. ADDED U.N. Warns 2021 Shaping up to Be a Humanitarian Catastrophe CV11↑.
CV33. Legal: Violators of Coronavirus Orders Will Be Fined, County Says. Restrictions in Elkhart County (Indiana) were already in place. Commissioners said that the fine ordinance was a strong measure to try to get people to comply with ways to mitigate the Covid-19 infections straining hospitals. County Backs up Covid Rules with Penalties. Elkhart County Commissioners Enact Fines up to $5,000 to Enforce Virus Control Orders. Clear indication that Pence =2= no longer has former governor influence of this state.
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