Parademic

221025 Macro and Micro

-1. The Smithsonian Magazine is one of the most trusted sources of information. It is well written, has beautiful photography and a variety of insightful articles. More valuable is that it approaches the most wicked problems with a deft and even handedness of clearly communicated science and art. The magazine adroitly handles the incomprehensible vastness of the universe and various manifestations of physics, as well as the unfathomable micro of that same infinite of molecules. Its articles have been cited several times in Parademic (the website), exploring global biosphere calamities and their seemingly mysterious interactions with the social behaviors of parademic (the area of study).

-2. The October 2022 edition touched on two topics of Parademic interest, subjects that have become politicized issues of the effects of global atmospheric change and temperatures, and the consequences of SARS-COV-2*A. Avoiding arguing the reality of either phenomena, potentially threatening people who have identified with one of the politicized views, the following two articles ^3&4↓ simply point out the parademic impacts on people, revealing losses and beauties. Without blame each article explores the complexity of contributing causes, and then without simplifying the complications explores means of finding solutions rather than fault.

            -*A. SAR-COV-2 is the clinical biological agent that can be fatal, has asymptomatic transmissions, and result in a significant number of chronic conditions. This is the bioagent that causes the illness Covid-19 (CV) and its many variations, among individuals and clusters. The name, and its variations, are associated with the pandemic, syndemic and reemerging diseases, the wide range of parademic behaviors within and between societies and communities.

-3. The first article is the result of macro systems of tons of concrete, thousands of acres or water, millions of affected life forms (including homo sapiens), billions of fluid volumes of evaporation and very restricted water flow, with precursors and aftermaths of millennia duration. | CV also impacted on this specific geographic area, its watershed and downstream ^4A↓.

            -A. The Breathtaking Glen Canyon Reveals Its Secrets. . . . Once a vacation destination visited by two million people annually Lake Powell is today just a hint of its former self, littered with stranded boat ramps and entire abandoned marinas. Instead of a recreation idyll, it’s a symbol of water troubles in the West and the impact of climate change. At the same time, something else is going on. The strikingly beautiful canyon that long existed before engineers dammed the river to create Lake Powell is coming back . . . witnessing a wilderness re wilding. Birds and bats darted around, and beavers and bobcats left their marks widely. A freshwater desert orchid, a rare flower I’d never heard of, bloomed along seeps that had been flooded for decades. The loss of water is a matter of grave concern to people and businesses downstream who depend on the water stored there for livelihoods, recreation, hydration, agriculture and electricity. There are policy lessons to be learned about our relationship to nature and unquestioned assumptions.

-4. The second article is about our most primitive of senses, the one least understood and appreciated, olfaction. This loss of a sense is one of many CV neurological damages.  Having receptors for chemicals (odors) is an attribute of all the Biological Kingdoms, including plants.| Undoubtedly illegal defecation, decomposition, mud, dust, humidity changes, returning and invasive plants and animals are changing the smell of the Glen Canyon Recreation Area ³↑.

            -A. Sniffing Out the Science of Smelling. . . . The time was right to launch a new art gallery of scents. . . . a fantasy that the pandemic brought it into focus. Not only did lockdown =2= allow contemplation away from neurology, but one of early Covid-19’s telltale symptoms, and one of the chronic Long Covid ⁵↓ sequela, loss of smell ⁶↓. . . . Olfaction is our underdog sense. It’s both primitive and complex, hard to study and harder still to transfer to our increasingly digital existence. Our understanding of smell lags far behind our grasp of hearing and vision. . . . In one survey, more than half of young adults said they would forfeit their ability to smell than their smartphones. . . . then along came the Coronavirus. People without their sense of smell realized they couldn’t register smoke of fires burning down their houses, the scent of their spouse, or savor a candy bar. . . .“You don’t know what you have until it’s gone”. . . . living in a world muffled by masks and odorless Zoom ⁷↓, heightened the collective desire to breathe deep and experience the scented realm. “When you are asked to smell art you realize how impoverished your perception of the world is when you limit yourself to the visual”.

-5. Long Covid: 201231-CV33 ^Oct2022*, 201203-CV05A, 201002-CV06, 200813-CV19A. *This addition has not been posted yet.

-6. Smell: 201110-CV16, 200806-CV22C, 200506-CV04B. Technically “smell” refers to scents in the air that are perceived by olfaction, but there are analogous receptors adapted to odors found in fluids [water =2=) and among microbes.

-7. Zoom =2=: 201206-CV10, 201204-CV31, 200925-CV05, 200924-CV27A, 200903-CV27B, 200824-CV19, 200712-CV16, 200616-CV15, 200529-CV02, 200525-CV07, 200513-CV19.1, 200422-CV19, 200411-CV20, 200406-CV20, 200329-CV20. “Social Media” and “Online” (meetings) are related concepts.

Status 201018

-1. Have finally finished editing and adding data to the 2020 CV PDN up to 200531. Have also added an item to 220813 FUV Infodemic. As noted before biocalamities, unlike other disasters, don’t have definable beginnings and endings, and when interacting with social systems tend to cascade into otherwise unrelated topics, creating more data for collection.

-2. Overall moving from collection and analysis to synthesis has been a much slower process than I anticipated. In part life, having to do maintenance for the synergizing of rain (erosion control) and drought (fire abatement) extremes from accelerating climate change) is taking more of my time, but concurrently allows me more reflection time outside the tyranny of current crisis. In addition, my slowly resolving health conditions limit the time I have that is productive for editing, and creating integrated material, but again allows more time to reflect and reject continuing to work of several synthesis essays.

-3. I am also finding some interesting impacts as my hearing loss increases. From my perspective this has not interfered with reading and writing, but I find that speaking is becoming more difficult and more aphasia like. I sometimes can’t speak words even though I can visualize the word/ concept I am trying to express. I have also be leaving out contextual information that are clear to me, but not to those I am conversing with. However, my tendency toward gross raw thinking via writing, when what is intended for others to read should be net and refined thoughts, continues to be a problem of my communicating to others.

-4. Because CV as a vicious circle of syndemic and parademic continues, cascading and accelerating other biocalamities and social issues, there are continuing observations, data to collect, and event that are still on going. As I do parademic synthesis comparing and contrasting to previous con current interpretations, revising conclusions, anticipating a range of events and implement protective actions, and evaluating an increasing literature by others commenting on the same phenomena from different perspectives.

-5. The process of integrating, imagining and synthesizing has always been a long and underfunded process. Issawi's Law of the Social Sciences implies that it is unlikely conclusions will be available within the time of the initial social phenomena that raised the question elitists, but will be available for the next analogous event – that is if someone in a key position knows of it and implements appropriately for the context of the current manifestation. This law is negated by Issawi’s Law of Cynics and supported by Hofstadter's Law.

221010 Anticipating Gardens

-1. News article: Tokyo's Suburban Gardens Should Prepare Now for Post Pandemic Tourism, “the gardens should work together to disperse visitors and avoid the negative effects of over tourism from lifting restrictions.”

-2. The reference article ¹↑is an example of identifying*^A a potential parademic problem and taking mitigation measures before it becomes entrenched and more difficult (or impossible) to solve. However, there are always potential problems stemming from solutions to problems and protective measure. In this case financial losses and suicides =2=  correlated =2= with containment and control of a disease can be both documented and related data are susceptible to manipulation toward a deceptive interpretation. On the other hand the success and/or failure of the mitigation is difficult to quantify, and not having the ability to control influencing factors*^B interpretation likely will be subjective.

            -*A. Left of outbreak: 200503-1D, 200412-1PC, <CONT 200223-200112-2¶>1C, 200209-1C. | (un)Anticipate: 210101-CV03A, 201214-CV04A, 201102-CV30A, 200916-CV05, 200830-1, 200806-CV03B, 200720-CV09.1, 200716-CV26, 200710-CV05, 200708-CV19B, 200628-1C, 200612-CV24.1B, 200607-2A, 200601-CV25.1, 200524-CV24A, 200524-CV30.1A, 200520-CV33A, 200518-CV22.1C, 200517-1B, 200515-CV27.1 -CV32, 200508-CV29, 200505-CV13, 200426-1.4, 200424-CV15, 200423-CV16, 200421-CV1, 200418-CV6A, 200417-CV24 -CV28, 200415-CV7, 200412-3, 200325-CV15, 200323-CV7, 200315-CV21, 200308-1E, <CONT 200308-200112-2¶>1, <CONT 200301-200112-2¶>10. CV31 was the 2020 listibase topical stub for “Futuring”, but there was only one instance of Japan at 200510-CV31B -C.

            -*B. Examples of uncontrolled experimental variables include: Japanese had the habit of masking before CV =2=, willingness to change work practices, less stringent but more rapid lockdowns, experience with cruise ship outbreaks, Olympic games bubble and preparing for mass gathering, tradition of elder care =2= and genetics.

-3. Unknown at this time if this effort to collaborate among gardens to limit exposure will be accepted or not, if there will be push back and non compliance, hostility aimed at foreigners (tourists) =2=, and/or if the measure will be effective. If this does limit CV spread in Japan, and therefore the rest of the world, this may give more insight into communication of global collaborations for global public health events (pandemics) and possibly biocalamities from anthropogenic industries.

            -3.1. As a community oriented consensus society =2= =3= Japan*^A is more likely than individualistic cultures =2= =3= to succeed at implementation. The indication from media reports is that during CV Japan had initial success at keeping case counts down (flattening the curve =2=), with relatively limited resistance to social controls against disease spread. This containment and control success avoided the need for draconian measures and lessened economic impact and loss of labor for eventual recovery. Unfortunately, in a consensus society decision making and cultural change tends ^3.2↓ to be slower, but once achieved will be adhered to by a majority of the population, even if the policy, belief and/or action is later determined to be detrimental =2= =3=.

            -*A. Japan: This includes Olympics and Cruise Ships. 201231-CV31B, 201229-CV23, 201223-CV18 -A -D -E, 201222-CV15 -A -CV25, 201214-CV21, 201207-CV23, 201130-CV08, 201125-CV09, 201027-CV16, 201021-CV08, 200901-CV09.1, 200828-CV08, 200825-CV19, 200820-CV09, 200714-CV23, 200626-CV19, 200620-CV29C, 200528-CV27, 200518-CV07A, 200517-CV05, 200514-CV29, 200512-CV08, 200511-CV23, 200509-CV29A, 200501-CV24, 200420-CV1 -CV3, 200418-CV24 -A, 200412-3, 200329-CV11, 200328-CV9 -A, <CONT 200308-200112-2¶>1F -200112-2¶>6 -200112-2¶>7, <CONT 200223-200112-2¶>1D -G -H -J -O, 200209-1D, <CONT 200202-200112-2¶>1D <CONT 200126-200112-2¶>1B1b.

            -3.2. Differences between cultures parademic reactions have been previously framed in Parademic in terms of shame and guilt =2= *^A. Briefly stated shame occurs when publicly revealed, while guilt only requires the individual to know of the infraction and acknowledges it as being wrong wrong and/or dangerous. There are however personality and mental disorders where individuals feel neither and there are social mechanisms to politely ignore infractions. In any case consensus/ individualistic, community/ self centered and shame/ guilt are not absolute determining terms but relative ones that manifest in different ways (and speeds) depending on social conditions at the time, information available and other influencing social factors ^3.1↑ . Because there are a range of possible behaviors s it must be considered that the mitigation measures are taken to avoid becoming ashamed, giving the appearance of substance that action is being taken =2=, which in a consensus society will likely encourage similar measures and collaboration by the whole society to contain a disease spread. In guilt societies such empty political theater leaves people in the position of being shamed, moral injury, or deny responsibility for disease spread within and between communities.

            -*A. Shame Guilt: 201220-CV33B, 201014-CV02, 200903-CV27A, 200829-CV06, 200802-CV16A, 200621-5, 200619-CV16C, 200530-CV05A, 200420-CV29B, 200428-CV18D5), 200414-CV12, 200416-CV15B, 200331-CV24 -A. | & Culture, Society 190630-Vaccine-4, 180916-3.3, 180812-1.1, 161030-6.1, 160626-5, 160612-7, 160605-4.3.

220929 Rising Abyss

220929 Rising Abyss =2=

-Keywords and Tags: -1. Misinformation during CV, -A. Terms for misinformation, -B. Why, 1.1 Weaponizing, -2. There was no increase, 2.1. Long History, 2.2. Language Distortions and Deficiencies, 3. Mitigating the Bogus, 3.1. Mitigation Restrictions, 3.2. Evolving Language as Analogue for Fact

-Excerpt: Was there an increase in misinformation during the Covid parademic.

-1. One of the prominent and distinctive features of the CV parademic was the sheer amount of misinformation*^A that filled an initial vacuum of verified accepted information, thus hindering the immediate containment and control of the disease. This delay created conditions that enabled CV to become a global endemic of a fatal, long term sequala  and fast mutating disease. | CV misinformation was likely due to the confluence of*^B the pandemic with: Politicized movements that relied on subterfuge to advance their agendas; Mass media technologies that were available globally; Displaced blame against institutions; Vicious spirals of uncertainty; Selfish exploitation for personal gain; and, Apparent success and ease of such methods to win elections, weaken enemies, exploit social fissures to create more chaos to be exploited, to gain and keep control and power, commit fraud, hide corruption, and pure malice that was likely framed as being moral and good.

            -*A. There are a number of terms for the concept of intentionally and unintentionally sharing information that is invalid or otherwise not based on fact and reality: disinformation (disinfo), false information, falsity, misreport, misstatement, calumny, deception, falsification, obfuscation, chicanery, distortion, inaccuracy, prevarication, sophistry, alternative fact, fake news, calling news fake, betrump, fib, false rumor (are all rumors false), trumped up story, gossip, red herring, false trail, kidology, bum steer, misrepresentation, misused statistics, propaganda, hoax, anecdata, pseudo science (lysenkoism), conspiracy theory, mislead, omission, fear mongering, big lie, fire hosing, demagoguery  corruption, urban myths, mendacity, self delusion, erroneous, taken out of context, palter, smoke and mirrors, Orwellian, forked tongue, cherry picking, bullshit, mendacity, without evidence 200903-CV06, post truth, fallacious. | The CV parademic spawned several neologisms for language needs that were not readily filled with existing word usage. This included “infodemic”, an information disaster and virulent social contagion. | The 2020 listibase contains so many reports of misinformation that it is more efficient to review each post than to list all the references. CV03 is the stub number of Information, where links about misinformation were placed.

            -*B. Though parademic topics, the reasons for why people lie, why they spread false information, why a significant percentage accept what is fake, and their inability and resistance to correction despite cognitive dissonance and clear contrary fact are beyond the scope of this paper.

            -1.1. Weaponizing of pathogens against health and environment has the severe drawback that once released contagions are living evolving systems that are unpredictable to control and can cause harm to those who initiated the attack. Infodemics have the same risks of expanding beyond the intended target, persisting for generations, damaging valid information, exacerbating mistrust and suspicion, synergizing with other deleterious phenomena, weakening correction of misinformation and ability to resist falsehood, backfiring*^A, and have an unfortunate characteristic that to remain effective it needs to become more extreme, [taking more effort and resources], with more people knowing the secret, and restrictive of more and more information to protect the previous restrictions.

            -*A. Russian Sputnik Vaccine: 210103-CV28 -A, 201229-CV05.1, 201210-CV24 -A, 201116-CV06 -A, 200903-CV27D.

-2. It is unlikely that there was a quantitative increase (acceleration) of misinformation during the CV parademic. Most alternative facts used during CV were in circulation well before CV. The infodemic recycles the same images, repeating the same fictions but updated to the current circumstances, use the same unexamined assumptions and prejudices, and aimed at the same audiences. It is more likely that due to the level of harm and animosities between uncritical believers and reasoned disbelief in misinformation, this normal and mundane social phenomena was more noticeable, and reported more often in media.

            -2.1. Well before CV there was already a rise in fake news, misinformation and gaslighting. Collectively these damaged accurate memory, skewed interpretation, undermined the ability to evaluate validity, which made more people vulnerable to CV misinformation. In fact, it could be argued that there has never been a time in the human history =2= =3= [Chart], of information sharing and subjective cognition that there was of a pristine state of truth.

            -2.2. Language by its very nature is easy to manipulate, and while an important tool, is nowhere near being a perfect instrument that can convey the complexities of reality. The invention of language likely coincided with lying.

-3. Are there then ways counter the abyss. Probably, but these will all be resisted with logical fallacies, traditions based on imagineries, habit and willful ignorance. Education in critical thinking would be one avenue, except that the institutions of education are contested by political agendas that recognize the importance of control of education. Science is another avenue but it is illogical to place faith in the information of a method of thought that by its nature changes based on newly discovered or with reinterpreted valid [evidence], is itself resistant to change and susceptible to fraud, while admitting it cannot state absolutes. In addition there were many examples of scientists/ doctors =2= =3= (both actual by diploma and/or quacks) that promoted misinformation. Law against perjury has never been effective, no more that relying that all people are guided by ineffable and infallible morals, guilt and shame. Last, preempting false information would at the same time subvert the evolution of knowledge, require an invasive infrastructure that could be corrupted, and leave the question of quis custodiet ipsos custodes.

            -3.1. The most that can be hoped for at this time is to mitigate impacts. Have systems to identify misinformation and audiences. Monitor known misinformation sources and anticipate messages that will endanger public health. Learn how to communicate to people according to what they believe, not facts. It’s specific behaviors to do and not do that are desired, not understanding. Where permitted provide education in critical evaluation of information, spotting indicators of misinformation, and access to validated information. Support officials who are not swayed by misinformation in their pursuit to be elected and/or appointed.

            -3.2. This does not mean that humans will never achieve being able to move beyond self deception, that the slow gaining of knowledge will finally be analogous with truth and reality. The only doubt is if the human species will survive its own foibles – its inability to admit to being wrong – long enough to achieve language that, at least for a moment, accurately and fully explains what is perceived.

220813 FUV Infodemic

MORE: Oct 2022

-1. Technology has always had effects on humans and the other life forms in the biosphere, including medical concepts and technology. There is a new technology being evaluated that sterilizes indoor air of microbes. “New Type of Ultraviolet Light Makes Indoor Air as Safe as Outdoors may be safe for people and takes less than five minutes to reduce the level of indoor airborne microbes by more than 98% ^2B↓. Far Ultra Violet (FUV) light is simple to install, it’s inexpensive (low institutional costs), it doesn’t need people to change their behavior, and evidence from multiple studies suggests it may be a safe way to prevent the transmission of any virus, including the Covid (CV) virus and its variants, as well as influenza and also any potential future pandemic viruses”. UV 200924-CV19.

-2. The above ¹↑ article has several parademic interests to comment on:

            -A. Impact of technology on society, health and environment.

            -B. Unintended consequences from what were initially considered beneficial behaviors or technologies. Specifically is there an accumulative downside if all microbes (98%) of the world’s indoor spaces, to include transportation, are destroyed over an extended period of time. The curator of Parademic website is not qualified to answer this question. As far as the curator of Parademic knows the development of FUV has done valid research and methodology =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= for testing for ill effects upon individuals, as illustrated by the use of the word may twice in the excerpt from the article. I couldn’t find if there was testing for long term effect of continuously eliminating microbes of a significant proportion of (MORE: Oct 2022 link) indoor air upon the global biosphere. If there are such studies they would be behind firewalls and other security measures to protect data from outside destruction and alteration.

            -C Cassandra effect in the form of dismissal of questions/ concerns, as has already happened with evolutionary selective pressures creating superbugs and anthropogenic environmental change. There is massive evidence that what is small in size and insignificant in the short term, accumulate over extended periods of causal chains eventually culminating in damaging health and environment ^E↓, and every other type of disaster. Cutting trees has resulted in deforestation, resulting in lost habitats, loss of biodiversity, soil degradation and megafires =2=. Sunblock has bleached corals and killed marine ecosystems. Gas engines have created air pollution (MORE: Oct 2022 as well as all other industries) and vulnerability to airborne pathogens. Increasing oxygen in the atmosphere from cyanobacteria resulted in the Great Oxidation Mass Extinction Event, taking two billion years to accumulate sufficient oxygen molecules (combination of two oxygen atoms) to change the atmosphere and all terrestrial life.

            -D. Marketing and distribution of a new medical technology, with an eye at providing global access, countering the widening gap between the haves – those with barriers, for now, from disease and environmental cascades – and the have nots – the majority of the population and those who have been Othered and are more likely to live in contaminated environments =2=, therefore being vulnerable to and the source of diseases and its spread.

            -E. Overcoming human resistance to accepting beneficial change. Even in the cases where the change is easily made, it may conflict with cognitive barriers and social constructs. Though it is probable that there will be no harm from FUV if used as intended, it is likely not to be used as intended if perceived as beneficial =2=. For example there were known dangers from overuse of antibiotics =2= and biodegradable plastics, warning made but ignored, until mutations became dominant strains, and/or unintended consequences became noticeable. FUV use may be far larger than anticipated, creating situations untested for, possibly at lethal doses of what is otherwise benign. This over application of a technology has a historical record of going too far as with the overuse of antibiotics *^F, plastics, hunting at industrial scales, and more ^C↑. All alterations to the environment that contaminate faster that the environment can neutralize will synergize creating further collapsing cascades in biosphere systems. At this time, I could find no models to forecast the effects of airborne microbe loss.

            -*F. 200901-CV23, 201207-CV31, 200816-2, 200728-CV31, 200710-CV21.1 all, 200625-CV07A, 200622-CV26C, 200610-CV21, 200606-CV30B, 200524-CV23B, 200522-CV20 Penicillin, 200514-CV21, 200510-3.1A, 200509-CV19, 200426-2, 200406-CV21 -A, <CONT 200223-200112-2¶>1C, 200112-4 -A. Antibiotic resistant bacteria, Superbugs, AMR have been a parademic topic for years and has grown worse during the 10 years of research and collection. As an aside it’s too bad that antivax panic does not turn its attention to antibiotic overuse, that may have done some good rather than harm.

            -2.1. Instead of using any (or all) of the above ^{2 all}↑, as the curator of the Parademic website I decided to go to an interesting place*^A by using FUV as a vehicle for briefly discussing, anticipating and developing approaches dealing with fear mongering and disinformation, as seen with the CV infodemic =2= which are still hindering containment and control of CV. It is overwhelming to make sense of the mass of the complexities and disconnects between cause and effect of long term disinformation campaigns – myths, rumor, inciting moral panic, willful ignorance, logical fallacies, political marketing, lies, motivated thinking and unwitting enablers. Using a speculative FUV as a potential biocalamity provides a simplified model that is comprehendible, rather than a completely evidence based factual model that is mind boggling in nuances, complications and complexities.

            -*A. Quote: They say there are no stupid questions. That’s obviously wrong. But it turns out that trying to thoroughly answer a stupid question can take you to some pretty interesting places. Randall Munroe, What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. [Cartoon Strips].

            -2.2. This essay uses FUV as a hypothetical heuristic to communicate the concept of creating dubiety of fact and turning the real into fake. This over simplification of a wicked problem is not a response to a campaign in favor of or against FUV. At this time there is no disinformation campaign against FUV, and one is unlikely to happen – but could, making a .000001 improbability that FUV can cause harm into 100% harmful if it does happen. There is the small blackswan possibility =2= that FUV could prove to be harmful at a later date despite all the previous study and testing. FUV use has not been done on a global scale in the real biosphere where it may encounter low probability high damage risk circumstances not anticipated or deemed impossible based on current understanding.

-3. There are consistent characteristics present that influence the behavior of individuals, communities, organizations and societies in the context of harming health and environment beyond the capacity to recover, i.e. conditions of uncertainty. The following are derived from the observations of parademic misinformation and disinformation reported via media and can be found from the end of listibase to its beginnings:

            -A. Preexisting dread that is either directly or indirectly linked to a fear. If there is a cluster of fearful interpretations of events, this could lead to mass panic behavior =2=. Dread does not need to of a real threat, it only needs to be perceived as one. These antecedents and precedents can be exploited even when it is widely known that the source of dread is a sensationalized =2= story (Jaws Effect), but people may not be aware the original source was fiction or a suspect source of information. It also happens to be faster and easier to hide the actual source (False Flag, Astroturfing) by using preexisting beliefs rather than try to create one from scratch. Interestingly, even when debunked/ fact checked and a manipulative source is exposed misinformation is still effective with targeted audiences and populations. Unless people are biased against a source beforehand – hence why it needs to be covert – the information will still be considered credible if it becomes part of a person’s identity =2=.

            -B. The presence of reason(s) and justification(s) for exploitation and fanning fear that are advantageous to an individual or group. This can include economic, criminal, armed conflict – to include biological warfare by proxy, i.e. persuading people there is a bioagent – ideological, xenophobic and Othering, delusional, social status, maintaining position and undermining opposition. The strongest reasons and justifications are not material gains, but threats to paradigms and beliefs that have guided a people’s/ person’s behavior and interpretations, likely for generations.

            -C. Having the means and capabilities too widely disseminate self propagating repetitive misinformation over an extended period of time, and the motivation to communicate to receptive audiences =2= narratives of fear mongering, magical thinking and conspiracy theory. This is largely a numbers game as the initial acceptance is likely to be limited. With apparent success =2= there is an increasing ability to drown out competing narratives, and dominate clusters =2= =3=, thereby influencing behavior. One of the consequences of this is that to maintain the momentum the narrative and behaviors need to become more extreme over time, especially if there is credible counter narrative based on evidence that can be fact checked. The most common current channel for infodemic communications is social media, that can easily provide an overwhelming surge of repetition and replication.

            -D. The ability to control and manipulate knowledge for a fragile narrative usually takes strong motivation to persist for years to establish a foundation of continual but intermittent collaboration (when interests coincide) and infrastructure to support implementing the objectives ^6C↓. These can range from damaging education systems to successful propaganda campaigns, hijack political agendas, using a mix of cherry picked =2= facts taken out of context or misrepresented, confused and unreliable information. This creates conditions that make desired (fake) interpretations more credible. For example, implying that another condition (not necessarily disease) is a more dangerous epidemic, or of outsiders (Others) bringing in an epidemic. This is one reason certain groups try (and sometimes succeed) in controlling the what and how of learning.

            -E. The existence (real or imagined) of conditions of uncertainty include: economic downturns and upturns, warfare, crime waves, mistrust, policies that cause chaos, unemployment, pandemics, climate change, food insecurity, gubergenic. These are basically continuous conditions of the modern world. Uncertain conditions appear to be related to suspension of questioning information, and/or never having learned critical thinking. When people are in uncertain states they are more likely to accept information that they would reject in stable conditions, though there are norms that foster not learning critical thinking. The most important function of misinformation is not to persuade, but to confuse and keep current supporters from experiencing cognitive dissonance that would lead them to question the alternative from fact narrative.

            -F. During infodemics it is likely for individuals and clusters to be confronted with logically inconsistent narratives =2=, where statements are made that are inconsistent and contradictory. Instead of rejection or becoming a motivation to question and test assumptions, the process of learning from apparent paradoxes, there is well developed cognitive dissonance resolution (i.e. avoid raising and neutralizing questions) that lead to the personal moral =2= and mental conflicts that tend arise when magical thinking, logical fallacies, unquestioning faith and assumptions, and blame deflection are confronted with disasters and absurdities that cannot be explained by those narratives.

            3.1. One would presume that acceptance of information is different from rejection of information. However, after years of observing the two processes this is a false dichotomy, that both acceptance and rejection of information is based more on a priori beliefs than evaluation of evidence. This is illustrated by various medical scams being accepted despite dangers. For example drinking bleach to cure disease and neurological conditions, and diseases. 200614-CV02A, 200610-CV23B1), 200607-CV01, 200522-CV11.1.

-4. Propaganda for or against FUV can be done with the same use of SLAI RIDE*^A to create narratives of conspiracy theory, anti (fill in the blank), mis and disinformation, political polarization, othering, flat out lies, etc. Making claims and denials can make FUV seem to be a social, health and/or environmental hazard or making a hazard appear not to be a threat. Slow impact, global wide and existential threats before they accelerate into fast declining populations are difficult to comprehend, making false claims and denials easier as they initially appear reasonable and credible per a set of a priori worldviews *^B↓ *^C↓.

            -*A. Sidebar: SLAI RIDE (Humor-1.4 -3.1) is an acronym frequently used in parademic, but goes beyond that subject area to include any narrative. Basically, SLAI RIDE are the elements of narrative construction that can be either false or true. The curator of Parademic tends to Sharpen (the S in SLAI) the negative use and Levels (the L) out the positive uses while Assimilating (A) to a particular interpretation (human & microsphere interactions that have impacts on the macro biosphere). I stands for Invention/ Imaginary, the rational conclusions or intuitive fill in of gaps in information. RIDE is the narrative history of Recycle, Icon, Dissemination and Evolution ^4.1A↓. These concepts are borrowed from the research of others, Thesis-Page 1 footnote.

            -*B. Facts that can be tested: 1) UV causes harm and/or mutations to biological cells and can kill. 2) Life on Earth is based on the microsphere, and multicelled life would eventually perish without microscopic life. 3) Human understanding of biology is limited, with life acting in unexpected ways. 4) Abuse of antibiotics to evolve antibiotic resistant superbugs.

            -*C. Beliefs that are untestable: 1) Science is dangerous, frequently failing while meddling with nature and things its does not understand, ultimately causing harm. 2) Science is used intentionally to cause harm for nefarious and self serving purposes. 3) Science promotes immoral behavior. 4) Science is more concerned about testing ideas rather than in the consequences, learning too late that it has caused damage. Exitus acta probat. Our goals are justified by (insert); therefore our acts are justified.

            -4.1. This article is not an exhaustive list of all potential tactics*^A of persuasive and manipulated communications 200522-CV20. This provides the general strategies of information manipulation that have been observed. Manipulative persuasions tends to be either Claims (attacking, Sharpening [Cartoon]) that (FUV) is a Threat*^B, and Denials*^C (defense, Leveling [Chart]) that (FUV) is not a Risk/ Hazard/ Danger. If there is a coordinated campaign to support Narratives (Assimilation) of Claim or deflection of blame there will be combinations of Claims and Denials, as well as debunking (Inventions, Imaginary) checks of Fact/ Fiction, with tailored messaging of the Narrative to targeted audiences.

            -*A. Logical Fallacies, Magical Thinking, Conspiracy Theory, Firehosing, Medical Scams, Marketing, Irrefutable Logic and/or Evidence, False Correlations, etc. Essentially these tactics are RIDE ^4A↑. Repetition, Recycle, Repurposing of previous messages. Iconic slogans and images or “historical” events and figures, the sacred, bias and Othering. Dissemination, Distribution, Delivery of the Narrative, the most common means currently being Social Media, which is the modern form of Word of Mouth =2= =3=. Last, the Narrative Evolves as messages change, counter narratives adapt, stories losing effectiveness, audiences are attrited or gained, cognitive dissonance needs new resolutions and escalation toward violence and amplification to overcome fatigue of the messages and/or the health/ environmental threat =2=.

-*B. Claims to create the perception that FUV is a Danger.	-*C. Denials if FUV is perceived as a Danger
1) FUV is a problem and the harm is being hidden.	1) No FUV problem exists, this is fake or a motivated agenda.
2) FUV is the problem causing false correlations.	2) The problem is caused by a long list of anything but FUV.
3) Distrust that FUV problems are easily solved with minimal impact.	3) FUV problems are unsolvable without causing greater harm.
4) No time to lose to fix FUV.	4) FUV is no worse than sunburn.
5) FUV sterilizes.	5) FUV only disinfects.

-5. If there are means, motive and opportunity to create/ continue a manufactured controversy =2= =3= – meaning a group willing to push negative perceptions or alternative facts; presumably a responsible organization would do full testing and end the program before mass distribution – and the above ^3all↑ conditions exist, then start developing a communications program now to counter misinformation. Waiting to counter, mitigate, prevent and neutralize an infodemic after it accelerates is a likely as ending a rumor after it has spread. A recent example is that CV antivax was known to have started before the CV vaccine was available 200518-CV31 and yet nothing was done to counter the disinformation. Even a minority deleterious opinion in a pandemic can cause big problems as it only takes one to become a disease vector that is social or biological. This may be due in part because the administration at the time tended to have an agenda that muzzled anything that could reflect poorly on that administration.

            -5.1. There fortunately is a program called Crisis & Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) that exists that can be a solid foundation to build health and environmental public communications upon, albeit it will need updating from what was learned during the CV syndemic, the related social disruptions and damage to all information. The CERC Manual is comprehensive and beyond the scope of this article to cover, but here is a good summary.

-6. Listibase References:

            -A. Infodemic: 201231-CV18B, 201220-CV26B, 201107-CV03, 201006-CV01, 200907-CV23, 200822-CV03, 200819-CV03.1, 200815-CV03, 200727-CV11, 200724-CV03, 200625-CV03.1, 200616-CV03, 200611-CV25, 200525-CV23, 200522-CV03, 200429-CV03 -A, 200419-CV3 -A, 200405-CV3, 200322-2D, 200209-1C. The term infodemic may have been coined in 2003.

            -B. Misinformation: During CV misinformation and other terms became so frequent as to be an information disaster and would be a long list of references in the 2020 Listibase. CV03 Information, is the topic stub number from the 2020 Listibase that would likely have links to related concepts.

            -C. ^3D↑, 201205-CV18.1, 201123-CV01A 200422-CV18A, 200421-CV12A, 200407-CV19, 200406-CV6, 200402-CV3, 200329-3.5A, 200325-CV6. 1984 200501-CV08.1 -A. The listibase prior to 2020 have other Orwell and 1984 stubs.

220718 Monkey Pox.

-1. Knowing my interest in pandemics one of my kids sent me an email asking if they should be concerned about Monkeypox. They had seen a local news notice yesterday that there is a single case in the county where they reside.

-2. Of course I am aware of the current cases and had been familiar with it for years as a potential mild pandemic. Knowing that they were not looking for a full answer (ad nauseum, with citations), but just reassurance I responded with the following, without the links included here:

            -A. There is a very small chance that you will be exposed. I've noticed most of the cases have been on the hands or parts of the body that have been touched by hands. It’s not an airborne disease like Covid (CV), but secretions from the lungs (spit) can transmit it. Monkeypox is spread mostly by physical contact from an infected person who may be asymptomatic, or from a surface that an infected person touched or coughed on.

            -B. There is a vaccine, but it is in short supply. Those who were vaccinated against smallpox may have some immunity to its relative Monkeypox☺. However, after smallpox was eradicated, vaccinating against smallpox stopped in 1980 ⁴↓. Since you were born after that year you are not vaccinated against smallpox. The best current protection, as with most diseases, is to wash your hands and keep your distance from people who are unmasked and coughing.

-3. My additional parademic comments are perhaps cynical. As expected, media (legitimate and otherwise) latched onto Monkeypox. Presumably media audiences are getting bored and fatigued about CV, so this is a new SLAI RIDE 201215-CV31B.

            -A. Likewise there will be exploitation for various agendas, as well as media amplification of moral panics, fear mongering, political theater, rumor and magical thinking. Then there are some people who just enjoy the power of being able to cause panic =2= =3=.

            -B. There is some justification of just reporting the facts of a potential problem in the form of public service announcements and science journalism =2=. Unfortunately, science has the reputation of being boring, having poor social and communication skills, and hard to understand [Video]. This tends to cause science journalism to oversimplify years of research into a few paragraphs, emphasizing what attracts attention 200522-CV20 while leaving out what is important, all in the context of rushing to avoid being scooped and to meet deadlines. This situation is exploited by pseudo science and medical scams through science by press release =2=, while the press rarely reports retracted science misinformation.

-4. The word pox has associations to both great (syphilis) and smallpox =2=. This association makes monkeypox sounds scary. Fear makes for attention getting headlines, clickbait, and sound bites. Monkeypox (actually Human Monkeypox) is a relative of Human Smallpox (Variola). Variola was officially eradicated globally in 1980 ^1B↑, and that same year vaccination against smallpox ended ⁶↓.

            -A. Except for samples in Russian and USA, which are held in high security containment biological labs, Variola is not circulating. The justification for keeping Variola samples was in case it arose again there would be samples ready for study and produce vaccine. There was also the lingering fear and distrust that the other country would use it for biological warfare and bioterrorism. This caused some to dread it would be accidentally released from a lab ^7A↓. This dread has been recycled as CV conspiracy theory of being intentionally released – accidental release has not been definitively ruled out, and probably never will be – from a Chinese lab or a USA one ^7A↓. This fear mongering is easily morphed into a Monkeypox panic ^6A↓.

-5. Monkeypox was identified as a potential zoonotic risk in 1958. There was concern that Monkeypox would dominate the ecological niche of human smallpox =2= =3= =4= =5= =6=. A human form of Monkeypox emerged in 1970. After all, humans are a primate, relatives of apes, monkeys and rodents. It is relatively easy for a zoonotic disease to jump to the primate cousin homo sap. It quickly became endemic in Africa, and spread to the other continents. It is not a recently spread African disease. It has zoonotic reservoirs worldwide that descended from West Africa decades ago.

-6. Like HIV/AIDS =2= =3=, the spread is correlated with prostitution and homosexuality =2=, exotic (illegal) animal trade, and associated with Africa ^6A↓. These all have moral stigma and counter narratives =2=. The conflict of these increase the chance that Human Monkeypox will become a negative parademic that hinders prevention, containment and control, 200520-CV29B -C all, and used to promote anti public health and Othering agendas.

-7. Being vaccinated against Variola may give immunity to monkey pox, unfortunately with the eradication of Variola most the general public have not been vaccinated since 1980 ⁴↑. There is also the issue of immunity waning among those who were vaccinated decades ago.

            -A. It doesn’t help that there is an ostentatious vocal antivax panic – another form of bioterrorism by proxy, i.e. fear of disease using an imagined pathogen or misrepresented technology (vaccines) – that will try to exploit this latest global wide (but not pandemic) disease. Antivax is already advocating against the monkey pox vaccine, and likely there will be conspiracy theories about Gain of Function, Lab Leaks ^4A↑, Immigrants, BigPharma, Bioterrorism and the other usual suspects ^4A↑ and targets ⁵↑.

-8. After HIV, SARS, 2009H1N1, Pertussis and Measles outbreaks, 2014Ebola, Measles and mumps outbreaks, CV and now Monkey Pox =2= =3=, I am reminded of the joke about a flood and attempts to evacuate and then rescue a person who refused help claiming that The Lord will save me =2=. [Cartoon =2= =3=].

220709 Accounting

Cassie noticed the sun was setting as she finished reviewing the daily maintenance, bills and payroll accounting. There was no red streaming in from the orb slipping below the clouds and horizon, only a growing darkness. A quick glance out the thick window showed ocean without the usual fog blanketing it, and rainbows in the misty haze where there used to be the horizon.

It had been some time since she had clearly seen the sun during the day, or stars at night. Those were memories of a different time with white clouds and blue skies, not the grey and black sky of daylight, or the glow from the sky at night. Those were the memories of why her parents had bought the ranch, the cool weather – cooler than now – the clear night stars away from city shine and fumes, an ocean view across the ocean side pasture, the trees in the back pasture and hills reverting to towering descendants of the forest giants that had been clear cut by loggers. They had loved living away from urban crowding in – even before the ecocide collapse – an underpopulated area.

That time was before the ocean side had been largely scraped away by the tsunami that swept down along the coast overtopping and scouring peninsulas, breaking the full power of the tsunami waves. This saved most of the ranch and its cove. It was still cool, but now cool was a wide range about the mode of 27, while the ranch house itself was kept at a constant of 21 degrees. The real difference was the humidity that went from desiccating, to comfortable, to scald biting over the course of the day. Inside humidity was 30 to 60 percent depending on season for what was needed to maintain a constant water flow to the entire septic system.

Checking the weather and disease forecast along the route tomorrow. Those were the mean for this time of year. After the heat lightning behind the ranch hills had ended the hot air would be blown toward the ocean to collide with the cooler air there, creating wet fog to nourish the forest until it would become a heavy rainstorm probably lasting till morning. Being winter it was unlikely for there to be tornados and waterspouts, but a rogue gale was always a possibility, as well as not yet reported outbreaks.

She checked the sensors that her guests were all secure and alive inside the top floor. They were all watching the rainbows set from the indoor windowed balcony. To double check, she verified the sensor that their vehicles were still sealed inside the roadside garage underneath. Once a guest family took a tourist risk of driving to a still bare promontory for a better view. There was no weather shelter there and their adventurous souls became literal souls when caught in a flash flood that crashed over the coast road. Sad but not as inconvenient as when guests became sick or died in the apartment, along with the nuisance of being reimbursed, disposal arrangements and documenting the sterilization before and after arrival.

The coast road had originally been through the ocean pasture, traffic slightly spoiling the view of the ocean from the ranch house. It disappeared along with most of the ocean pasture with the tsunami undercutting the bluff. Now the view was improved with a higher bluff above the ocean, and much closer to the house. The new coast road crossed out of sight through the back pasture behind a thick wind hedge. She had been able to negotiate with the county that in lieu of being paid for the easement, a driveway up to her place be built from the three lane coast road –counting the middle passing lane – and would all be maintained in perpetuity at no cost to the ranch.

The truck shelters, cow gates to the pastures, and fire resistant hedges were mandated for the coast road. The shelters doubled as emergency shelters for the inevitable tourists who would get caught in the hourly changing and movement of severe inclemental weathers.

Sometimes she would think it would be nice to live in a place where the weather was stalled, never changing as it did so rapidly here. Then again, perpetual drought dead zones requiring supplemental oxygen and UV suits, or the constant rain flooded alluvial plains were not appealing. However, it would be fun to see a lift off from Port Phoenix launch area, and maybe have a chance to look through one of its powerful optical and radio telescopes that peered into the eternally cloud free sky above the port area.

Two other benefits of her location were the permanent state wildfire station up the road, which predated the reroute of the coast road, and the Coast Guard barracks and airbase for law enforcement along the coast, its single transit road, and the federal marine preserves.

The coast had become too dangerous for any ships to draw near, including smugglers. The only ships were those passing by in the distance, rescues now done by the Navy or helios. With the detritus from the tsunami, the returning forest, heat lightening, and occasional arson, fires were a constant sight, with Fire either starting or controlling to keep fuel low. Tourists apparently liked to see fires that they didn’t have to evacuate from. Both agencies increased her safety and tourist traffic as well as provided medical care for the area, all of which assured a steady income from renting and her investment in the tidal surge power station, including free power to the ranch.

Additional money from the flood insurance for the lost land, and the court award for the pandemic agitprop that led to her parent’s deaths during that last global syndemic, provided the means to climate and fire proof the ranch house, as well as change the upper floors into full amenity rentals. The apartments proved popular as a destination in a beautiful wild area, especially when traveling the scenic long distance to other attractive areas that were closer to civilization.

The incomes from local investments and upper floor apartment rentals provided a healthy income. This allowed her to pay well for the many services needed for the ranch house and its property and to make local donations. She permitted free pasturage – leaving unspoken illegal hunting, fishing and wooding – for the locals.

Being a source of needed incomes and having earned a reputation of being a fair employer, kept the local home militia business blinds from making demands upon her or waylaying tourists. Fire and Coast Guard had their own unwritten agreements – sometimes outright cooperation – ignoring the illegal strongholds up in the hill ridges, and other illegal activities as long as they were only for local consumption and not hijacking trucks and other traffic.

After verifying the acknowledgment of the auto messages to one of the guests with a copy of the bill for the stay, and reminding them of the predicted safe travel window to their next destinations – which doubled as a polite reminder when they had to leave or have penalty fees – she alerted the cleaning company and Coast Guard of the planned departure, assuming nothing changed the weather window, with ETA of next the next guest and departure of the remaining guests.

As she closed the accounting screens the monsoon swept over the ranch house, arriving only a few minutes from the predicted time. The deluge was audible through the slanted heavy windows sluicing off the dust from the scirocco that had dissipated the fog a few hours before. A nice cleansing at the end of her workday.

She internally debated again about the offer of an overnight stay in her apartment with the Coast Guard Commander or the Fire Captain. The real question was not about juggling the pleasant company but about possible future parenting. The militia would not be a problem as they respected both and were largely exotic themselves. However, for form’s sake for the county elite, they would have to object to her developing an obvious same sex relationship with the Captain, an exotic woman of Oriental and Latin decent. The Commander on the other hand would eventually be assigned somewhere else before retirement, and he had qualms about amalgam parenting.

Her wish to raise a child was as wild and erratic as the weather. It would please her parents whose cremains were a protection scattered all around the property and off the bluff. Financially she could do it and the ranch is a safe place to raise a child and have a family for years. Still, there were the doubts about a child in a world with such a toxic legacy and uncertain future.

220605 Moral Ethics

Updated: 220806

-1. Both morality and ethics loosely have to do with distinguishing the difference between “good and bad” or “right and wrong.” Many people think of morality as something that's personal and normative, whereas ethics is the standards of “good and bad” distinguished by a certain community or social setting =2=.

-2. Parademic problems arise during pandemics when terms and meanings are fluid and used interchangeably 200405-2 -A, especially to justify or obfuscate behaviors that under normal conditions are unethical and/or immoral, that are beyond the pale, and violate the expectations that leadership – see CV29 of the 2020 notes – and expert advice be moral and ethical. Negative parademic is exacerbated when the ethics and/or morals that are followed are revealed to be untested invalid assumptions that are questionable, and dysfunctional in the context of an accelerated biocalamity.

-3. The parademic associated with the CV global pandemic biocalamity has a developing literature *^A‡ about what is ethical may be immoral, that what one may find moral in terms of personal benefit is unethical to the larger community, that what one considers to be good is harmful, and what is believed to be bad is of greater benefit to more people. CV24 Norms of the 2020 PDN notes cover many related topics

            -*A‡. =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= =7= =8= =9= =10=.

            -B. Moral: 210103-CV04B, 210102-CV28, 210101-CV32B. 201221-CV31A, 201214-CV29C, 201203-CV05A, 201203-CV29A. 201129-CV17A, 201120-CV10A, 201116-CV10, 201102-CV32. 201005-CV10. 200927-1D, 200919-CV29, 200913-1B, 200902-CV03.1. 200830-CV22, 200827-CV01, 200804-CV30A, 200802-CV05.1, 200801-CV22B. 200719-CV16A -CV33A, 200715-CV15.1, 200711-CV17B, 200701-CV05 -CV16B. 200630-CV24, 200627-CV16F, 200625-CV18A, 200615-CV16, 200608-CV01, 200607-CV02, 200606-CV10. 200528-CV30, 200524-1E, 200516-CV01A -CV10.1, 200511-CV10, 200501-CV10. 200424-CV18, 200423-CV8D -E -CV22, 200418-CV23, 200407-CV10 -CV12 -CV23, 200404-CV10 -CV25, 200402-CV3. 200329-CV14, 200308-1, <CONT 200308-200112-2¶>5, 200301-2. 200223-1, <CONT 200223-200112-2¶>1P, 200216-1 -3, 200209-1A. 200126-1.  Reminder: The search string/word may be mentioned more than once in a stub or will be found in the CV list of stub topics at the top of each PDN.

            -C. Ethic: 210102-CV28, 201222-CV21B, 201220-4.1. 201203-CV11 -A. 201127-CV22, 201120-CV10A, 201112-CV10. 201016-CV04, 201012-CV04, 201006-CV01C, 201002-CV10. 200923-CV18D, 200909lain -CV18D, 200905-CV12. 200827-CV01, 200815-CV04A, 200809-CV33. 200725-CV10, 200721-CV03, 200720-CV18D,

            -D. Dilemma: 201218-CV05A. 201101-A. 200920-CV04 -CV15A. 200612-CV17B, 200607-C24. 200518-CV23, 200510-CV29.6). 200425-CV04 -CV30B,  200409-CV17C, 200405-4A -6C. <CONT 200301-200112-2¶>9 -200112-2¶>11. <CONT 200202-200112-2¶>1F.

-4. Persistence of CV continues to destabilize people’s understanding of moral and ethics, and what are used as equivalent terms: I am an American; We are protecting children; What (deity or idoloated person) proclaims; (Information source) is fake or the only truth; I am a Doctor or other profession; Freedom from responsibility; Responsibility to Others; Our goal justifies the means used to archive it. The reader will note that this moral and ethical framing often appear in the form of political slogans.

-5. The continuing personal and social impacts of the relative nature of morality and ethics during existential events include: Backlash/resistance; Non sequitur questioning; Use of creating moral panics to advance unethical agendas; Rewriting history and current events; Changing legal interpretations or creating new laws, and; other Moral Cognitive Dissonance =2= =3=. This disconnection between rules that always worked before, failed when encountering conditions of uncertainty. When one’s personal worldview is no longer functioning, lead to increasing backfire and doubling down on previous magical thinking. This results in continence of the existential event, bunker mentality, mental health issues, poor decision making, further moral injury, fatigue, depression and withdrawal from the whole issue.

-6. There appears to be a strong correlation between claims of morality and ethics, especially by those whose reputations are based on claims of morality and ethics, to support immoral and unethical beliefs and actions during existential events. The purpose of the duplicity may be to reestablish power, likely achieved by fraud, that has weakened an accepted moral narrative =2=. Apparently terminology related to morality is more relative and vague than moral relativists contend, including among moral absolutists. It is not morality and ethics per se that deteriorate during pandemics, but that the unquestioned underpinnings that morals and ethics are based on become more apparent 200525-CV24, and less useful for guiding behavior in the reality of a biocalamity.

-7. The wax and wane of discourse on morality may have a time lag in relation to the wax and wane of pandemic or parademic waves. When there is a correlation of morality and a biocalamity that is an indication of an emerging parademic. Interestingly, negative economic consequences of a biocalamity are another indicator that a biocalamity has become a biocrisis. Biocrises are the concurrent hindering or facilitating of parademics and accelerated biocalamities, synergizing syndemics and social contagions. The relation of parademic with (in)morality implies a relation between economics and morality, 200520-CV04A. . Economics and morality may explain the magical thinking that sin causes supernatural wrath in the form of anthropogenic plagues and that the scapegoat sinner(s) blamed for causing the social collapse must be banished or destroyed.

220515 Garbage

Hong Kong Zero Covid Policies Create Mountains of Plastic Waste

-1. The most frequent association of humans with biocalamities are the waste products of human activities that contaminate and harm environment and health. Obviously, human behaviors are not the only cause of biocalamities*^A *^B, but for the last 200,000 years of anatomical modern humans there are paleontological*^B, botanical, microbial and geological indicators that humans have contributed to changing and exploiting*^B biomes*^B. 12,000^+/- years ago Anthropogenic*^B changes began to accelerate*^B – the inflection*^B of a curve from linear to exponential*^B growth, or social change – though currently still largely bradyoccult*^B. This slow and hidden process makes it possible for the cause/ effect relation, and the unintended deleterious consequences to be ignored. The acceleration of the degrading biosphere has deposited an increasingly clearer and frequent =2= archaeological record [Chart] of ecological disasters, abandoned and deteriorating anthromes*^B , deforestation, desertification*^B, dead zones, biodiversity loss, increasing temperatures, etc. of biocalamities =2=. [Quote].

            -*A. All known global mass extinction events are associated with what could be argued to be a worldwide layer of garbage. In one case the waste was iron rust resulting from the waste product of oxygen from bacteria. Another is a layer of chalk (iridium) =2=, likely from dust created when a large fragment of space debris struck Earth.

            -*B. One of the frustrations of parademic and biocalamities is the lack of generally shared terminology for description and to share information with others. The curator is still in the process of assembling a glossary and does try to explain neologisms, technical, and atypical definitions, and it’s a drag to include definitions each time an unfamiliar term is used. The final glossary will not be completed until after reviewing the 2020 stub notes, which at the current pace of review will probably not be done until the end of 2023.

-2. Anthropogenic discarded products are accumulating to form a distinct global geological layer (200728-CV32B, 200511-CV19, 190602-6, 190127-4) defining the current transition from the Holocene, when the latest global ice age began to end. The climate and environmental changes associated with the Holocene created more favorable habitats for humans and their coevolving/ domesticated species. This climate change – not the same as the current anthropogenic accelerated climate change – allowed human societies to invade the whole planet from its Alkebulan origins. In erudite terms the Anthropocene is laying down a compacting layer of stratigraphy =2= =3=, taphonomy =2= and typologies. Before this material becomes a geological layer =2= [Chart] it is commonly called trash, garbage, refuse, mass culls, casualties, graves, biohazards and hazmats, pollution, contamination, cultural detritus, duff, sewage, intellectual (data holding electronics, paper media, disposable data and information) and industrial waste. There are two other forms *^A↓ *^B↓ of recognized, but intangible, garbage that further antagonize biocalamities and parademics.

            -*A. GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out), the uncertainty and loss of trust when incomplete and poor data are run through flawed models leading to conclusions and actions that don’t reflect the real consequences. GIGO templates ^App2↓ range from conspiracy theory, magical thinking, rumor opportunities for mis and disinformation (rumor), phobias, invested interests, clustering illusion, incorrect conclusions, deleterious decisions, motivated thinking, junk science, antivax, a priori stereotypes, untested assumptions, logical fallacies, political polarization (group think), misrepresented and altered information (lies), and misinterpretation. This form of trash neutralizes debunking, critical thinking, crisis communications and has a backfire effect =2= =3= that prevents cleanup and correction. GIGO causes disruptions and destruction in the information sphere and influences human behavior, usually in increasingly ruinous ways (acceleration). Being cognitive social constructs (agreed upon ideas among people) this damage does not leave direct evidence, but indirect evidence resulting from behaviors. The evidence of GIGO are mental templates ^App2↓/ schema of indirect physical evidence and/or*^C observations of mass irrational and inhumane behaviors that result from these imagineries =2=.

            -*B. Dehumanized people are treated by fellow homo sapiens as trash. Templates for these abominations include orphans =2=, othering (them/not us), scapegoats, marginalized, the dead, moral panics about the sick and spreaders, foreigners, sex workers, druggies, abused, junk, impoverished, different ideologies and beliefs, disabled and homeless. [Cartoon].

            -*C. This is actually intended as the Boolean operators AND, OR (200501-CV04A3), 200420-CV17 -A, 200308-2C). AND requires each search string to be present, OR that any and all strings will do. However, the conjunctive and/or is already in common use and close enough to the parademic meaning of connections, that the operators are not used in stubs.

-3. Trash control and sanitation have from the beginning been part of human history, starting with literally moving to a new area to exploit, and/or moving the trash to an unoccupied space – water, underground pits, alien country, and burning to ash and smoke into the air. Despoiled areas include: over hunted/fished, resources depleted, spoils from extraction, disease outbreaks, fire, warfare, smog, drought and ruined reputations. Eventually this accumulation and subsequent contaminations turned to much larger cleanup and recovery activities. There are now the beginnings of ecological management and regulation, but still nothing that will extinguish the root cause

            -A. Unfortunately, the problem of trash keeps leading up to biocalamities, or are an unintended consequence of the biocalamity. This includes the recent CV =2=, that increased the one time use for limiting spread became a problem, notably masks and plastics =2=. Interestingly one of the aggravators of CV was air pollution, which declined at that time.

App 1. Parademic Listibase (database of listicles) References

-4. GIGO, Garbage In Garbage Out, Erroneous Information that Influences behavior: 200530-CV03 -CV04.1, 200510-1F -G, 200322-4F -G. 170220-3. 160904-2. 150308-30 *^B↓. 141012-E1, 140223-20D. 131215-43.3, 130915-7, 130623-41, 130407-40.

            -A. Was interested to see how long parademic had been using the GIGO concept in terms of invalid information influencing behavior. Apparently, this dates back to 2013 ^{7C D}↓.

            -*B. The stub reference numbers without the link highlight are no longer available on a public accessible website, but I have maintained a copy of the parademic listibase.

-5. Trash: 201213-2, 201213-CV29A, 201210-CV12B -C, 201201-CV03A, 201109-CV20B, 201019-CV03A, 200921-CV24, 200702-CV22C, 200629-CV16, 200620-CV26, 200530-CV06, 200519-CV12 all, 200514-CV05A, 200511-CV19 -A, 200419-1.1A, 200419-CV26A, <CONT 200322-200112-2¶>1C*A, 200308-2B, 200301-3A. A 52 Year Old Man Is Swimming Through the Pacific Garbage Patch. He's Caught Disgusting Trash, Including a Toothbrush and a Toilet Seat =2=, <ADDED 190728-190714-2.1>2, 190714-2, <ADDED 190630-190616-6>2, 190616-1B, 190616-Polemic-4, 190602-6, 190331-1, <ADDED 190113-190106-2.2>2. <ADDED 181021-181014-3>2, <ADDED 180902-171210-10>11, 180805-2, <ADDED 180729-171210-10>10, <ADDED 180708 -171210-10>10, <ADDED 180624-171210-1>7, <ADDED 180422-171210-10>5, <ADDED 180415-171210-10>6, <ADDED 180401-180304-6>5, <ADDED 180325-180318-1.1>1, 180311-1. 171203-7A, <ADDED 171126-170205-5.1>6, <ADDED 171001-170924-1>1, <ADDED 170924-170528-9>8, 170910-2.4A -*, 170723-1, 170521-6A.

-6. Plastic. The word “plastic” frequently appears in Parademic with “trash, garbage, water, waste, sewage, geological and ingestion” contexts. These may be additional useful search strings. How to Make Plastic Disappear^$. 201213-2, 201210-CV12B -C, 201011-2 -A, 200813-CV28, 200728-CV32B, 200719-1F, 200629-CV16, 200529-CV31, 200520-CV26 -A, 200519-CV12B, 200511-CV19 -A, 200419-CV01, 200409-CV26, 200324-CV12, 200301-3 -A.

            -A. 191215-1‡, 190908-5, 190818-2.2, Everything That We Hold Dear: From Race to Plastic Straws, Trump Dials up Culture Wars in Divisive Play for 2020 Votes, <ADDED 190728-190714-2.1>2 -190623-6.1>4, 190602-6.1, Trump: 'We Have Bigger Problems than Plastic Straws', Trump Campaign Selling Branded Plastic Straws as Alternative to 'Liberal Paper Straws', Trump Was Oddly Reasonable about Plastic Straws. His Campaign May Not like It, 190714-Polemic-5.3, How Rivers Became the Plastic Highway into the Oceans, Scientists on Madeira See New ‘Plasticrust’ Sea Pollution, 190623-1, 190616-5, 190602-6, 190526-2‡ -5, 190519-3, <ADDED 190505-190224-1.2>4, <ADDED 190421-190217-7>1, <ADDED 190317-190217-7>4, <ADDED 190303-190224-1.2>3, 190203-5, 190127-2.1 -4,

            -B. [Cartoon], 181209-8.1¶, <ADDED 181202-171210-10>13, 181028-1.1, <ADDED 181021-180708-4>6‡, 181021-VCP-II-Research, <ADDED 181014-180513-1.1>9, 180930-4, <ADDED 180902-171210-10>11, <ADDED 180729-171210-10>10 -‡, <ADDED 180715-171210-10>7, <ADDED 180624-171210-1>7, <ADDED 180617-171210-10>7, <ADDED 180422-171210-10>5 -‡, <ADDED 180415-171210-10>6, UN Resolution Calling for Targets to Tackle Ocean Plastic Waste Rejected by US, China and India, 180204-6.5, <ADDED 180128-171210-10>5.

            -C. 171210-10, 171015-1, http://parademic.typepad.com/my-blog/2017/10/parademic-notes-week-ending-171001.html<ADDED 171001-170924-1>1 -170820-3.1‡>9, 170924-3, -6‡, 170917-7.1, 170820-3.1‡, <ADDED 170820-160626-7>, <ADDED 170723•160626-7, 170716-3.2, 170625-6.2, 170409-2.1, 170319-9.2.

            -D. 161211-2, 160731-4.3C -6, 160626-7, 160320-1.1.

-7. Template ^App2↓, 201122-1 all, 200705-1, 200518-CV23, 200508-CV30, 200419-1.1B, 200405-2B, 200308-2C. 191208-3B, 190929-1B, 190901-1A, 190310-10. 181104-1.1, 180805-VCP-1USA, 180715-1, 180603-3 -4.1 12), 180401-9, 180301-5.3. 170625-2A, 170521-6.1, 170326-9A, 170220-2.6, 170205-13T.B•Lessons not learned, Forewarning ¶. 160619-4.4, 160508-14, 160320-1.

            -A. 150906-1.3 -38 ^4B↑, 150621-54, 150315-34H. 141214-5Persistence, 141207- E.40.1 ^*C↓, 141130-53B1, 141102-E22, 141019-0.1-ABC Cycle-Anti Vaccination Example, 141012-41E, 140928-4.1A -31.2, 140914-2.1, 140824-1.8.4 -46.2*¹, 140815DISINT-4.7.2 -5.2.1*¹ -9.9, 140810-1.1, 140713-65.1, 140706-> -4.4G -47.2 -47.3 -47.4, 140504-5.1, 140316-10.2, 140309-29.1F, 140302-10.5, 140209-27, 140126-4.3, 140105-46Chart. 131208-6 -15, 131201-4, 131110-49*¹ (typo, 9 should be 0) -40.2.1, 131027-6, 131013-2 -2.2 -5 -33 -61.1, 131006-12 email, 130929-4.3B -D -E -H -J -22.1, 130922-4 -60, 130915-35, 130908-56• -•’s 8-10 12-13, 130825-45, 130804-45*¹, 130721-51.2 -51.3 -58.1 -64, 130623-64•(Clinical) Resources, 130512-1, 130428-37 -40 -60, 130310-4.1•4^th, 130217-48.1. 101114-12.1.

            -B. Template ^App2↓ was an early concept borrowed from archaeology when I first began observing (2010) and testing if the umbrella concept =2= of parademic – people alongside biosphere calamity – was valid.

            -*C. The E in the 14mmdd-E# stub numbers refer to the West Africa Ebola which provided the first natural experiment to test the open source methodology providing a wide source and observations against a large scale biocalamity. There was so much material on Ebola that it was separated from the other syndemics of the time, that Ebola (E) stubs were separated. The concurrent parademic of Ebolaphobia (E) had clear fear mongering =2= =3= =4= =5= =6= and misreported items =2= =3= =4= =5= =6=, providing strong evidence that one could have parademic without a biological agent threatening communities ^4A↑. This is a form of bioterrorism that instead of an actual bioagent uses proxies of rumor, propaganda, conspiracy theory, panic, political slanting, fear mongering and other social contagions. These result in behaviors that spread like disease and impact on health and environment.

            -D. 2014Ebola was when parademic started exploring the idea of template ^App2↓ beyond artifacts to include ideas, people and events ^4A↑. These ideas in part neutralized effective response to Ebola, for instance defining the template of a PHEIC delayed actions. Differences of meaning of “hospitals” were a multivocalic template that overrode needs by insisting on certain standards to create a hospital but not in time to meet the needs of the Ebola infected, while the local population considered hospitals as places to die. An indicator that a facility used for Ebola was overwhelmed was the biohazards on floors and beds with feces, urine, blood, bodies. As hospital sanitation, hand washing, cadaver disposal and pick up improved there was the use of contaminating chemicals [Photo], that may have made medical scams and disinfectant misinformaton seem reasonable.

App 2. Template, Social Blueprints and Worldviews...

-8. ... are conceptual assumptions that intent, intelligence, symbolism, language are influencing the manufacture of artifacts: It includes the following points:

            -A. A mental template is an idea in the mind of the maker of an artifact (likely part of a larger whole), while ideofacts leave evidence with physical expressions. Interpretation of what ideofacts mean (what is believed) is not a supportable presumption without its original and whole in situ context, to include information from users. For example a religious symbol found in a place of worship with related texts, will have a different meaning than the same symbol found in a museum with its associated didactic panel.

            -B. A mental template applies to an artifact as a whole, though one can reasonably reverse engineer what an artifact’s functions was as a piece of a larger system or end product. This is the contextual assemblage where the physical evidence is consistently found. However, systems and use may be ideological, possibly losing or changing meaning over time.

            -C. A mental template is a subset of all the attributes of the artifact, including its assemblage of associated artifacts that indicate purpose and meaning, Unfortunately, the observer effect likely skews interpretation and conclusions. These skews likely indicate more about the reporter and their social milieu than that of the artifact itself.

            -D. While "tradition" may determine all or part of the mental template, other factors or considerations also contribute to the template. Form follows function and the final shape usually designed to be useable by humans and/or =2= its coevolutionary species. This implies all species, and life in general, are functioning combinations of junk, while the biosphere is a petri sphere.

            -E. Factors other than the maker's mental template will contribute to the final form and appearance of the artifact or concept. Raw material available, norms and laws, manufacture methods and costs, marketing and markets, affordability, colors, texture, investments of finance and effort (time), labor available, conflicting narratives, transportability, desired durability, intended function, smell, etc.

-9. Template Variation Chart. Adapted from James Deetz

The Template	Individual Preferences	Community Variations
⋅ Existing blueprints, forms, formats and appearance ⋅ Imagination and inventions of new or forgotten templates ⋅ Reconstructions based on memory ⋅ Duplication, copies and direct import (or theft) ⋅ Cultural diffusion and assimilation ⋅ Adaptation or modification of a template for a different purpose or situation ⋅ Can be explicit and formalized with depictions and descriptions, or tacit and informal without an image or words.	⋅ Individual is a template that interacts with templates in different and same ways ⋅ Raw materials and tools available, or to be invented/ discovered ⋅ Compounds of materials ⋅ Process and System ⋅ Size and Number of units ⋅ Marketing, the considerations to make this item selected from alternatives ⋅ Expertise and practice ⋅ Style	⋅ Individual differences and standardization into a recognized group, another template ⋅ Errors that were recognized as beneficial, or perceived as damaged beyond use ⋅ Changes and variations in materials and compounds ⋅ Availability and variations in supply that change compounds or manufacture. ⋅ Evolving styles and what belongs to the set that belong to the template ⋅ Introduction of a template that replaces the previous one ⋅ Changes in norms, standards and/or regulations that in turn change the system the template belongs to ⋅ Needs of durability, usage or temporary ⋅ Toleration for differences and sameness ⋅ Identification group

-10. Refuse to be discarded itself is a template. What is part of the overlapping sets [potential Venn Diagram] that comprise garbage varies between cultures, communities and individuals, and the geospatial incidents and events that create what is waste. These discards could be a resource in a different geospatial context.

220508 School Drill

This is a story that I hope remains fiction. However, this is probably a newer version of what students have thought since the first lesson on the savannah.

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Iets not my fault that I was not able to do the assignment.

First everyone already knows the answer. Interviewing someone who had lived through the first years of Covid to find out what they thought was the biggest change to schools. Why bother asking??????.

More ridiculous was adding that this could not be just a recording of the interview, but that we had to write are own perspective of what was said. Why take time repeating what someone else says in different words?????.

Iets also dumb to require a list of questions from preparing the interview. You already given the question to ask. What more questions when the answers are in wikis.

I asked my parents but they refused saying that Grandpa Weingarden was a school teacher then, before becoming the head of the Teachers Union and sent to prison.

I don’t like him. He never answers questions directly giving references and gets off track and is always angry when he talks about the past. He doesint like me either, always disappointed when he asks me questions. At least you didint require in person.

I asked my other grandparents, but they too said that Weiney was the best. Couldint ask his spouse who had been a teacher too, she died of Covid back then.

When we connected he didn’t answer the question, just as guessed. Instead he said school drills were the biggest change.

He went on and on that back then for attacks on schools the teachers manually locked the doors and kids laid down on the floor. So what. Everyone knows this and we have a year’s exercise of the school and cops to practice, though those can be fun unless adults get too serious.

He then went on about how fire drills have changed. It was a little interesting that back then everyone at the school went to an outside area and waited for fire response. Why would anyone think its a good idea to go where they could be shot at and where a bomb might be for a crowd and risk illness by mixing groups. He said it was good that schools now have monthly practices on fighting fires. I got my firefighter team certificate recently, though like everyone I know how to use school firefighting panels. He said that back then kids would fake fire alarms. He didint explain why and how people could think they could get away with a crime in a school.

He finally talked about outbreak drills being new. Big give. Those are just like weather days where it is too hot, cold, or stormy to safely go to school practicums. We get practice whenever someone gets sick, having to wear bubble faces until health tests, besides most modules are online. The only difference is that for outbreak drill days we use medinostics and data input. Not even sure why that is needed when there is already screening at school, many are monitored 24/7 and there are real outbreaks about once a month.

At least he did not ask me any questions.

Thanks for wasting 85 minutes of my life doing yet another useless history module of listening and then dictexting what was said.