RELEVANT INTERACTIVE ANALYTICS REFRAMED TO CONFRONT IDIOTIC BLOG DECONSTRUCTION SITUATIONS

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Online Climate Change Polarization:

Interactional Framing Analysis of 

Climate Change Blog Comments

Christel W. van Eck, Bob C. Mulder, Art Dewulf

First Published July 28, 2020 Research Article  https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547020942228

While increasingly more is known about how to reframe the relevance of climate change, much less is known about how people deal with situations in which they are confronted with frames that are incompatible with their own frames. The current research conducts an interactional framing analysis to investigate how users in climate change blog comments interactively construct the meaning of issues, identities and relationships, and their interactions. Results show that most framing differences start with issue framing but thereafter shift to identity and relationship or process framing. Finally, users mostly deploy polarizing interaction strategies to deal with these framing differences.

A NATIONAL DISTEMPER ?

With almost 150,000 COVID-19 deaths, the United States, putative leader of the free world, now is competing with Brazil and Russia for global supremacy in pandemic mismanagement... Yet some conservatives continue to protest even basic public-health measures, including masks. How could some of America’s best and brightest abet their country’s collapse into dysfunction in the face of a once-in-a-century pandemic?...

QUILLETTE   Published on July 23, 2020

Why Have So Many American Conservatives Embraced COVID-19 Pseudoscience?

written by Nidra Poller

The demand that the medical community recognize the miraculous COVID-19-curing qualities of hydroxychloroquine formed another absurd subplot. In his in-depth report on Didier Raoult, the controversial French professor who championed the drug, journalist Scott Sayare explained that much of the misinformation began spreading in early March, when Gregory Rigano—who falsely presented himself as an advisor to Stanford Medical School—self-published a Google Docs report on the subject that he’d formatted so that it looked like a legitimate scientific paper.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham picked upon his misinformation, and pronounced hydroxychloroquine to be a “game-changer.” Sean Hannity followed suit. Rigano appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show, where he claimed that Raoult’s study had shown a 100 percent cure rate. At a March 19th White House task force briefing, President Trump repeated the claim that the drug was a “game changer.”

In time, the debate over hydroxychloroquine became suffused with misinformation on both sides, as even the debunkers who opposed Trump’s claims ignored the usual scientific safeguards. In May, the Lancet published a report declaring that hydroxychloroquine wasn’t merely ineffective in regard to COVID-19, but dangerous, too. In June, that work was retracted.

This was around the same time that progressive media and public-health groups were insisting that mass attendance at Black Lives Matter events was perfectly safe because the underlying political cause was important—an absurd contradiction ...

UNFORTUNATELY, BLM FOUNDER  PATRISSE CULLORS IS AN OLD HAND AT CONTRADICTIONS :

When it comes to COVID-19, Trump and his followers may have led the assault on the sanctity of science. But many of his opponents have made a bad situation worse, proving that political extremism can be a risk to human health no matter which direction it comes from.

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I SAW THE WITCH DOCTOR AND SHE TOLD ME WHAT TO DO

BBC NEWS PIGIN SERVICE MEKEM FISK, SAYEM BIGFELLA JUJU BLONG COVID KANAKA IM BUGGERIMAP FINIS:

Dr Stella Immanuel Hydroxychloroquine video: Facts you fit no sabi about dis drug for covid video of Houston Texas doctor wey Facebook, Twitter Periscope delete

• Daniel Semeniworima
• Senior Broadcast Journalist

Hydroxychloroquine wey be anti-malarial drug na for May 2020 US President Donald Trump first say im dey take hydroxychloroquine as preventive measure against Covid-19, although sabi pipo don warn about di side effects.

Latest tori be say one American doctor don go viral afta one Dr Stella Immanuel wey be primary health physician for Houston, Texas US inside one for one video tell tori pipo for news conference say she don treat ova 350 patients wey get Covid-19.

• Covid-19 'na diabolic spiritual battle' - Dr Stella Immanuel tok, as more informate about her biography don comot
• Dr Stella Immanuel call patients to speak out afta deleted hydroxychloroquine video

Dr. Immanuel still dey insist say she know wetin she dey tok.

End of Twitter post, 1

But sabi pipo still dey study if hydroxychloroquine (and one drug wey resemble am wey dem dey call chloroquine) dey effective against coronavirus.

Di World Health Organization say dem dey concerned about reports of pipo wey dey do self-medication and dey cause serious harm to dia bodi.

World Health Organization announce on July 4 say dem don stop dia trial of hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir drugs. 

• Why Facebook remove video of African doctor wey promote hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 treatment
• Why Twitter suspend Donald Trump Jr for Dr. Stella Immanue hydroxychloroquine video

Dem organize di trial to find out how effective di drugs be to treat Covid-19.

According to di result of di trial wey dem do, hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir no really reduce death of Covid-19 patients for hospital wen you compare to di regular treatment wey dem receive.

So far coronavirus don catch more than 16 million pipo across di world according to World Health Organization.

WIA DIS FOTO COME FROM, GETTY IMAGES

Wetin we call dis foto, 

President Trump bin don talk about using dis drugs for Covid-19

AUSTIN, Texas — The Houston doctor who was part of a controversial viral video touting hydroxychloroquine as a "cure" for COVID-19 has said certain gynecological issues are caused by sexual encounters with demons in dreams, along with other dubious medical claims.

The Daily Beast has published an extensive collection of some of the views of Dr. Stella Immanuel, who was part of a video showing a group of doctors making misleading and false claims about the coronavirus pandemic that was removed from Facebook and Twitter--but only after it garnered tens of millions of views and was retweeted by President Donald Trump.

The video recorded in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, according to The Washington Post, claimed that face masks and lockdowns are not needed to stop COVID-19.

LIVING PROOF INTERNET SCAMS ARE NOT NIGERIA'S ONLY COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY 

INTERSECTIONAL GOOP MAKES VOGUE RUNWAY DEBUT

Intersectional environmentalism is an inclusive version of environmentalism that advocates for both the protection of people and the planet. It identifies the ways in which injustices happening to marginalized communities and the earth are interconnected. It brings injustices done to the most vulnerable communities, and the earth... 

Every environmentalist needs to hold themselves accountable and do the inner anti-racism work to achieve both climate and social justice. 

Take the Intersectional Environmentalist Pledge to learn more about what steps you can take, read Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Camille T. Dungy, and listen to The Yikes Podcast. We must move forward and push for intersectional environmentalism to save the planet, and Black lives.

Leah Thomas is an intersectional environmental activist and eco-communicator. You can follow her work on instagram @GreenGirlLeah

BLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDER PATRISSE CULLORS DOES NOT SUBSRIBE TO @GREENGIRLLEAH 'S ANALYSIS, INSISTING THAT RED IS THE NEW BLACK:

FOIL PRICES SOAR AS PRAT IN TIN HAT FOILS TINPOT FASCIST MARXIST MASKIST PLOT

Compulsory Masks Will Divide Britain More Bitterly than Brexit
JAMES DELINGPOLE  24 Jul 2020

JAMES DELINGPOLE MODELS UNPLEASANT  FRENCH TIN HAT 

Never mind Brexit...

Masks are dehumanising, they impede communication, they’re unpleasant and restrictive to wear, they aid and abet criminals, and — unless they’re medical-grade, which most aren’t — and there is no proof, as of yet, that they significantly prevent the spread of Chinese coronavirus, or even prevent spread at all. 

To make them compulsory, without offering a scientific justification is the biggest assault... on civil liberty in centuries... the worst conflict ...will [be] between... Covid skeptics... and... cowardly, hysterical, ill-informed, bossy, gullible tinpot fascists 

NEXT DAY AT:

Watts Up With That?

The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change

Does Universal Mask Wearing Decrease or Increase the Spread of COVID -19?

Leo Goldstein Guest Blogger / 18 hours ago 

Preface. The use and requirements of masks have become incredibly political and partisan. Unfortunately, far too much of science, knowledge, journalism, and even epistemology are becoming political.  

Abstract

A survey of peer-reviewed studies shows that universal mask wearing 
(as opposed to wearing masks in specific settings)
 does not decrease the transmission of respiratory viruses from people wearing masks to people who are not wearing masks.

Further, indirect evidence and common sense suggest that universal mask wearing is likely to increase the spread of COVID-19.

NEXT WEEK AT JACOBIN:

Serbia’s Coronavirus Protests Are Denouncing the Government From Opposite Angles

VLADIMIR SIMOVIĆ

TRANSLATION BY

JAMES ROBERTSON

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GREEK CLIMATE RETREAT AND A BEACH RAVE IN IBIZA?

 Ravers on Ibiza do not suffer cliche' gladly:

Holistic Education in the Heart of Greece

INNER RESILIENCE FOR TENDING A SACRED UNRAVELLING

The emerging realisation that climate change is becoming a destructive tragedy, not just an urgent challenge, is profoundly disorientating for many people. How are we to feel? What are we to do? What might become the purpose of our lives and work in the face of imminent societal breakdown from climate chaos?

...join us for a week of dialogue and reflection with people working on this Deep Adaptation agenda... to help make this a kinder and more sacred unravelling of life-as-we-know-it. 

We will draw upon... emotional, spiritual and somatic ways of being and (un)learning, as well as the intellectual/cognitive. Our aspiration is that we will support peaceful empowered surrender to our predicament...

The food is mostly locally sourced, all home-cooked and vegetarian...  bring a reading, practice or insight to share that is helping you to explore living lovingly and actively in the face of climate-induced collapse...


Optional evening activities.. such as Ecstatic Dance are organised at nearby centres).

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD USED TO END

             The Invisible Dystopia

Friday A/V Club: When the post-apocalyptic world looks a lot like the pre-apocalyptic world

JESSE WALKER | 7.17.2020 8:45 AM

"Our mass culture is driven by screened entertainment," the science fiction novelist Neal Stephenson told The Wall Street Journal last week, "so there's a tendency to tell stories in a way that looks good on screens. I think there is an overreliance on dystopia that is fundamentally driven by art direction and production design."

The result, Stephenson argued, is that we've

gotten used to a particular way of thinking about dystopia—and that's not what we've got, right? We've ended up with something that is very non-cinematic. With few exceptions, anywhere in the world affected by Covid-19, you can go out and walk down the street, drive around, look at stuff. And aside from the fact that there aren't as many people out and a lot of people are wearing masks, nothing looks different. There are no collapsed buildings or crashed trains or any of the other visual markers that you would see in a movie to tell you that a disaster has happened here.

Is it possible to make a cinematic take on a non-cinematic disaster? 
I can think of one movie that tried: The New World, Jean-Luc Godard's 20-minute contribution to the otherwise forgettable 1963 anthology film Ro.Go.Pa.G."




EARLIER FUTURISTS THOUGHT DIFFERENTLY:

The Crypt of Civilization chamber is positioned on Appalachian granite bedrock... at Oglethorpe University... and the walls were lined with enamel plates embedded in pitch. The chamber is under a stone roof seven feet thick... sealed with a stainless steel door welded in place.^[1]he chamber resembles a cell of an Egyptian pyramid...

An original copy of the script for Gone With the Wind was donated by movie producer David O. Selznick

Unusual artifacts included are seed samples, dental floss, the contents of a woman's purse, some Artie Shaw records, an electric toaster, a pacifier, a specially sealed bottle of Budweiser beer, a typewriter, a radio, a cash register, an adding machine, a set of Lincoln Logs, and plastic toys of Donald Duck, the Lone Ranger, and a Black doll.

Unauthorized Gigamask Chemtrail Experiment Deeply Shocks UNEP

Nonmedical masks reduce aerosols spread by coughin

SECURITY COUNCIL WAS NOT INFORMED OF ROGUE

    BILLION MASK ATMOSPHERIC RELEASE

... To get a sense for how well some readily accessible face coverings prevent the spread

of respiratory droplets, Siddhartha Verma, Manhar Dhanak, and John Frankenfield at

Florida Atlantic University imaged droplet clouds passing through... a bandana, a folded
handkerchief, a homemade cotton mask, and a store-bought cone-style mask.
Their experiments showed that even though the masks leaked a bit when subjected

to an artificial cough, all four reduced how far droplets traveled.

The researchers simulated a person’s cough by creating a burst of microscopic droplets
using a smoke generator and a manual pump... The water–glycerol droplets were 1–10
μm in diameter, similar to the smallest droplets expelled in a real cough, and were imaged
 using a laser sheet.

With no mask, the aerosol jet extended an average of 8 feet from the head. 

A handkerchief folded according to instructions from the US Surgeon General reduced that
distance to 1 foot 3 inches. 

A store-bought cone-style mask performed better, with the jet only extending 8 inches. 

The best result came from a mask stitched out of two layers of quilting cotton (second figure), which permitted only a 2.5-inch jet. 

A single-layer bandana with a higher thread count than the quilting cotton—85 rather than 70 threads per inch—performed much worse than any of the masks, with droplets spreading 3 feet 7 inches away. The result suggests that rather than a higher thread count, mask construction, including layering, may be more important for reducing droplet spread.

Although detailed quantitative studies are needed to fully characterize the wide range of face coverings now being used as personal protective equipment, the visualizations presented by Verma and coworkers can provide a quick assessment of a mask’s efficacy and help convey the importance of mask wearing. (S. Verma, M. Dhanak, J. Frankenfield, Phys. Fluids 32, 061708, 2020.)

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THE TYRANT AT WIKI : THE SEQUEL FROM HELL

HOW MANY DEGREE-DAYS IS 50 YEARS OF FRAUD?

February 7, 2020

Global Warming's 50 Years of Fraud

By Jack Hellner

The theory for those pushing the green new deal or some other radical energy policy that will destroy tens of millions of jobs and greatly harm the poor and middle class is that humans, CO2, and fossil fuels cause warming and climate change. This warming causes the ice to melt in Alaska, then the melting ice causes sea levels to rise...

As a nerd who knows that the people pushing the garbage theory of humans causing climate change is based on a series of lies, I look at actual data.

January 2020 was the 15th coldest January on record in Fairbanks Alaska.... Obviously, the ice will be thickening faster than average and is not going to be gone as predicted.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC,JUNE 23, 2020

What a 100-degree day in Siberia really means

The record-setting high is much more than a quick spike for the Russian Arctic, where months of extreme heat may have dangerous consequences.

5 MINUTE READ

BY ALEJANDRA BORUNDA
An extended heat wave that has been baking the Russian Arctic for months drove the temperature in Verkhoyansk, Russia—north of the Arctic Circle—to 100.4°F on June 20, the official first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This record high temperature is a signal of a rapidly and continually warming planet, and a preview of how Arctic warming will continue in an increasingly hot future, scientists say.

It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the town, where records have been kept since 1885.

A climate-toasted Arctic

Hot summer days aren’t unheard of in the Arctic. The ocean-tempered coasts tend to stay slightly cooler, but inland, summer temperatures sometimes soar. Fort Yukon, Alaska, recorded the first-ever 100°F (37.7°C) day north of the Arctic Circle in 1915; Verkhoyansk hit 99.1°F (37.3°C) in 1988.

“It has been really bizarre to see,” says Ivana Cvijanovic, a climate scientist at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. “All across Siberia, it has really been so hot for so long. January, then February, then March, then April. The pattern—it really stands out.”

The warm winter and hot spring meant that the snow usually blanketing the ground across much of the region melted about a month earlier than normal. Bright white snow plays a crucial role in keeping parts of the Arctic cool, by reflecting the sun’s incoming heat. Once it had gone away, dirt and plants readily soaked up the heat instead.