CV Pandemic Daily Notes 201207

CV01. Protection: Behavior and Cold Surge, 3 W's, CV03. Information: Senate Committee Crank Testimony, CV03.1. Trump Vaccine Summit, CV04. Politics: China Vaccine Diplomacy, CV05. Economics: Tipping Essential Workers, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Emily Dickinson, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Increased Enrollment for Medical School, CV19. Technosphere: Exposure App, CV20. Communication: Preference for Negative Stories, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Japan Military Nurses, CV23.1. Germany, Impact on Military Bases, CV24. Norms: Radiologist Overtime, CV26. Environment, One Health: Biodiversity Buffer, CV31. Futuring: Post Pandemic STDs

PDN Introduction.

CV01. Protection: As Daily Case Average Nears 200,000, Experts Say 'Behavior and Cold Weather' Are Behind Covid-19 Surge. People are going indoors, they're not minding the three W's advice that remains the same. Wash your hands, watch your distance, wear face coverings.

CV03. Information: A Senate Committee Calls Science Denialist Crank Dr. Jane Orient to Testify on Covid-19 Vaccines. A doctor who is skeptical of coronavirus vaccines and promotes the anti malaria drug hydroxychloroquine – 201002-CV03, 200901-CV29, 200817-CV18.1, 200728-CV03.1 – as a Covid-19 treatment will be the lead witness at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday, prompting criticism from Democrats who say Republicans should not give a platform to someone who spreads conspiracy theories. She is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group that opposes government involvement in medicine and views federal vaccine mandates as a violation of human rights 200722-CV03.  Why Was a Vaccine Skeptic Invited to Deliver Senate Testimony. ADDED A Vaccine Critic Told Congress to Focus on Toilets Instead of Masks to Stop Covid.

            CV03.1. Trump Summit Aims to Boost Faith in Vaccine; Excludes Biden ^CV29. The Trump administration is hoping to instill public confidence in forthcoming vaccines for the coronavirus with a White House summit Tuesday featuring experts who will outline the distribution and administration process. Yes this will boost confidence with mixed messages and sources that have lost public trust. Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Moderna, Pfizer Spurn Trump’s White House Invite. Pro Trump Pastor Claims Coronavirus Vaccine Conditioning Americans for "Mark of the Beast", Covid-19 and the Mark of the Beast. 201206-CV28A.

CV04. Politics: It would be a major coup of health diplomacy if China can supply the world with a CV vaccine, or a major humiliation if they are unable to do so, or the vaccine fails. Covid-19 Vaccines Poised for Approval in the West. But What about China. Britain became the first country to approve a drug developed, with regulators in the US and Europe also considering applications, Chinese drug firms have yet to submit final data even though a million people have already received emergency shots. Beijing Tells Chinese Vaccine Makers to Get Ready for Mass Production. China Has Promised Millions of Coronavirus Vaccines to Countries Globally. And it Is Ready to Deliver Them. China’s Vaccines May Have ‘Appeal’ in Developing Countries, economist says. Developing countries may have face a long wait if they want a vaccine developed in the West, Beijing’s willingness to provide vaccines to developing countries adds to the appeal of the China’s vaccines.

CV05. Economics: Tipped Service Workers Are More Vulnerable Amid Pandemic Harassment Spike. More than half of workers surveyed said they were reluctant to enforce Covid-19 safety measures with customers from whom they would receive tips,

CV09. Arts, Creativity: Emily Dickinson Is the Unlikely Hero of Our Time ^CV22. Her words resonate in the current crisis, during which protecting the “daily mind” has become a full time job. News reports, with their updated death tolls, erode our intellectual and spiritual foundations. All seems lost.

            -A. But if strain and sorrow are palpable in this poem, so is courage. Dickinson’s lonely speaker chooses to express what she has felt, to measure and record the burden of loss that life has thrust upon her. Beliefs, once bandaged, may heal. And while no man has ever been bold enough to confront the deeper “Consciousness” that so many deaths expose within the human mind, the speaker will not rule out doing so herself. There is still room in this blighted world for the kind of visionary experience from which hope not only springs, but flourishes. ^CV10.

CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Medical Schools Call 18 Percent Increase in Applications 'Fauci Effect'.

CV19. Technosphere: Despite Promise, Few in US Adopting Covid-19 Exposure Apps, does not speculate on why people are not taking advantage of it. California’s CA Notify App to Offer Statewide Exposure Notification Using Apple and Google’s Framework, California Releases Smartphone Virus Tool as Cases Soar. Raging Coronavirus Leaving Thick Viral Haze All Across California ^CV02, personally I’ve seen worse days of LA, at least you can make out downtown, and there is only one color.

CV20. Communication: U.S. Media Readers Strongly Prefer Negative Stories about Covid-19.

CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Japan Preparing to Send Military Nurses to Areas Hit Hard by Virus. With the changing demographics of Japan it should not be assumed that all Japanese Defense Force Nurses are female, and doctor’s are male.

            CV23.1. US Military Schools, Facilities Close, Restrict Business as Germany Struggles with Coronavirus Second Wave.

CV24. Norms: A Kansas Radiology Technician Slept in an RV Outside His Hospital for over a Week after Coworkers Got Sick with Covid-19 and No One Else Was Available to Take X Rays.

CV26. Environment, One Health: Images of Bison Bones Provide a Window into the Cultural and Ecological Relations That Tie Animal and Human. We are living through a period of unprecedented species extinction due to human induced changes to the planet's ecosystems. This is not the first time human activities radically changed relationships between land and life. Illustrated by a famous photograph of remains, the extermination of bison from the North American West in the 19^th century is one key example of catastrophic species loss ^CV22. Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed, the Transcontinental Railroad ^CV19 connected East and West – and accelerated the destruction of what had been in the center of North America. December 14, 1867, Shooting Buffalo from the Trains of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. [Art]. Though there is (created) debate and obfuscation about the origin of CV, undoubtedly its origins include human selective pressures on the environment and biodiversity loss.

CV31. Futuring: Why the out of Control STD Epidemic Will Likely Get Worse after the Coronavirus Pandemic. 200423-CV8B.