Ian Prittie. (2021, October 4). Again proving that this is only about vaccine passports, not public health. Https://t.co/i4kdZemBDV [Tweet]. @thereds8. https://twitter.com/thereds8/status/1445068311193165824

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Hallin’s spheres

Hallin divides the world of political discourse into three concentric spheres: consensus, legitimate controversy, and deviance. In the sphere of consensus, journalists assume everyone agrees. The sphere of legitimate controversy includes the standard political debates, and journalists are expected to remain neutral. The sphere of deviance falls outside the bounds of legitimate debate, and journalists can ignore it. These boundaries shift, as public opinion shifts.

Hughes, R. C., Bhopal, S., & Tomlinson, M. (2021). Commentary: Making pre-school children wear masks is bad public health. OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/65tdh

Bob Enyart, conservative firebrand and pastor, dies of COVID-19. (2021, September 14). The Denver Post. https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/13/bob-enyart-dies-covid-19/

Covid-19: ‘Vaccine misinformation a dilemma for young people’. (2021, September 19). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-58616080

This is the missing curriculum in design education.

Booth, R., Devlin, H., & Topham, G. (2021, September 15). More than 4m stopped wearing masks this summer in Britain, ONS data shows. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/15/more-than-4m-stopped-wearing-face-masks-this-summer-ons-data-shows

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Robins-Early, N. (2021, September 24). Desperation, misinformation: How the ivermectin craze spread across the world. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/24/ivermectin-covid-peru-misinformation

I use the metaphor of a compromised immune system to describe the effects of propaganda, the polluted information ecology in which we are swimming.

Ultimately, the cognitive distortions are the disease of modern life, where we can no longer understand ourselves or our world, because the disinformation campaigns have impaired our ability to think rationally when we are in a constant state of stress, anxiety, and fear. We become stuck in the lizard brain, the limbic system, where we make emotional decisions and subsequently justify our actions with rationalizations.

This is the water we swim in.

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Amy Westervelt delves into the history of propaganda to uncover the deceit at the heart of public relations, marketing, advertising, and design in an analysis of the business strategies of oil and gas companies in the podcast, Drilled.

Westervelt pays particular interest to Edward Bernays.

“Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, coined the term ‘public relations’ when propaganda started to become a negative term. His specialty was using psychological know-how to manipulate the masses and orchestrate cultural shifts in his clients’ favor (clients like Standard Oil, the American Tobacco Company, and General Motors).”

Washington Post. ‘Opinion | Remaining Unvaccinated in Public Should Be Considered as Bad as Drunken Driving’, 15 September 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/15/remaining-unvaccinated-public-should-be-considered-bad-drunken-driving/.

McIntyre, R. S., Lui, L. M., Rosenblat, J. D., Ho, R., Gill, H., Mansur, R. B., Teopiz, K., Liao, Y., Lu, C., Subramaniapillai, M., Nasri, F., & Lee, Y. (2021). Suicide reduction in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons informing national prevention strategies for suicide reduction. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 01410768211043186. https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768211043186

Kington, R. S., Arnesen, S., Chou, W.-Y. S., Curry, S. J., Lazer, D., & Villarruel, and A. M. (2021). Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information in Social Media: Principles and Attributes. NAM Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.31478/202107a

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https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/12/210

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Stephan Lewandowsky. (2021, September 20). Major update to the wiki underlying our COVID-19 Vaccination Communication Handbook https://sks.to/c19vax 1/n https://t.co/gosByQsg4y [Tweet]. @STWorg. https://twitter.com/STWorg/status/1439854554477105162

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This is a model that is tacitly being used by the IndieWeb in slowly developing better social media and communication on the web.

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Bai, H. (2021). Fake News Known as Fake Still Changes Beliefs and Leads to Partisan Polarization [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v9gax

Bard, Jennifer S. ‘6 Actions the Federal Government Should Take in Response to the Delta Variant’. Bill of Health, 27 July 2021. http://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2021/07/27/delta-covid-variant-government-response/.

Deep Concept: Modern America is mostly corrupt from it's own creation of wealth. Wealth is power, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! Money and wealth have completely changed the underlying foundation of America. Modern America is the corrupted result of wealth. Morality and ethics in modern American have been reshaped to "fit" European Aristocracy, ironically the same European aristocracy America fled in the Revolutionary War.

Billions and billions of tax payer money is spent on projects that could never pass rigorous examination and best public ROI use. Political authoritative conditions rule public tax money for the benefit of a few at the expense of the many. The public "cult-like" sheep have no clue how they are being abused.

The authoritative abusers (politicians) follow the "mostly" corrupt American (fuck-you) form of government and individual power tactics that have been conveniently embedded in corrupt modern morality and ethics, used by corrupted lawyers and judges to codify the fundamental moral code that underpins the original American Constitution.

What happens to this graph when we overlay pure capitalism instead of a mixed economy? What if this spectrum was put on a different axis altogether? What does the current climate of the United states look like when graphed out on it. Which parts have diminished over the past 50 years with the decrease in regulation?

Some of these areas benefit heavily by government intervention and regulation.

We need the ability to better protect both common and public goods.

definitions:

• rivalry: does use by one person physically preclude use by others?
• excludability: do laws prohibit access to these goods?

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Nate Holdren. (2021, August 26). This, at Iowa State, is bananas. Https://t.co/8CFPwfMqwe [Tweet]. @n_hold. https://twitter.com/n_hold/status/1430797840054358016

I've noticed this phenomenon as well. When criticizing public policy, writers should be required to write down their alternate plans and then go at least one or two levels deep as to the knock on effects that their decisions are likely to have.

It's easy to criticize, but it's much harder to do the actual work and thinking to actually do something else.

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(2) Dr Nicole E Basta on Twitter: “There is SO MUCH misunderstanding about what a #vaccine #mandate IS & what a vaccine mandate DOES. No one is calling for anyone to be banned. No one is calling for anyone to be forcibly vaccinated. Please, gather 'round and listen up, so you know what we’re talking about... 1/n” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved August 23, 2021, from https://twitter.com/IDEpiPhD/status/1428410251884302336?s=20

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Carragher, D., Towler, A., Mileva, V. R., White, D., & Hancock, P. J. (2021). Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e9fq3

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Marc Lipsitch. (2021, July 20). At the risk of boiling down too much and certainly losing some detail, one way to summarize this wonderful thread is that when we think about vaccine effectiveness, we should think of 4 key variables: 1 which vaccine, 2 age of the person, 3 how long after vax, 4 vs what outcome. [Tweet]. @mlipsitch. https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1417595538632060931

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, July 26). RT @thehowie: Concerning thread. But this point... 2.14% of asymptomatic people in SF may be infected (vs. 0.1% earlier) is key. WAY too… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1419701997582700544

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @Esseph63: In the phrase that begins, “It’s one rule for them …”, these are the them. Https://t.co/VNb3LI5Q3p’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 16 August 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1414676877873074193

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