Re: And there must be no bowing down - Today's Eleven
On 2020-03-23 20:57, John Hopkins wrote: > Cecile -- plz avoid editorializing on some of these links -- the > following "now used against covid19" really is a huge mis-statement. > There is a tiny bit of anecdotal information that chloroquine > mitigates the virus' symptoms/effects... it is *not* being 'used > against'. There has been no clinical testing on chloroquine/Covid19 > that would meet minimum requirements from any health/medical agency > for safe use. *There is no 'cure' or vaccine and will not be for > many months!* Statements that support a misplaced belief that there > is a 'cure' available (such as Trump has repeatedly made) are > irresponsible. Actually the article specifies that the chloroquine is not a vaccine, but a medicine that - allegedly - slows down but does not kill the virus, in that is it combats infection. It has been included by the State Pharma agency in the provisory treatment plan against Covid since it had been administered with good results on patients in China. If one wants to read the whole article (in Dutch) deepl.com does a good job translating to English. Ciaoui, p+2D! # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: And there must be no bowing down - Today's Eleven
John - I hear what you're saying, but it IS being used in NL in, then let's say, the struggle against - the symptoms of - covid19. This was confirmed this evening in the main public TV journal. But yes, I was a bit too quick writing it down that way. thanx -c- On 3/23/20 8:57 PM, John Hopkins wrote: > Cecile -- plz avoid editorializing on some of these links -- the > following "now used against covid19" really is a huge mis-statement. > There is a tiny bit of anecdotal information that chloroquine mitigates > the virus' symptoms/effects... it is *not* being 'used against'. There > has been no clinical testing on chloroquine/Covid19 that would meet > minimum requirements from any health/medical agency for safe use. *There > is no 'cure' or vaccine and will not be for many months!* Statements > that support a misplaced belief that there is a 'cure' available (such > as Trump has repeatedly made) are irresponsible. > > jh # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: And there must be no bowing down - Today's Eleven
Cecile -- plz avoid editorializing on some of these links -- the following "now used against covid19" really is a huge mis-statement. There is a tiny bit of anecdotal information that chloroquine mitigates the virus' symptoms/effects... it is *not* being 'used against'. There has been no clinical testing on chloroquine/Covid19 that would meet minimum requirements from any health/medical agency for safe use. *There is no 'cure' or vaccine and will not be for many months!* Statements that support a misplaced belief that there is a 'cure' available (such as Trump has repeatedly made) are irresponsible. jh On 23/Mar/20 12:55, Cecile Landman wrote: 10. Director ACE Pharmaceuticals in Dutch Zeewolde threatened by what can possibly be described as gangsters. The industry produces chloroquine, old malaria medication, now used against covid19. (Dutch) https://www.parool.nl/nederland/directeur-medicijnbedrijf-bedreigd-door-vage-types-die-hoge-bedragen-voor-coronamedicijn-bieden~bfe539c9/ -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++ # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
And there must be no bowing down - Today's Eleven Corona Links for
Today's Eleven Corona Links for Nettime Compiled by Cecile Landman 1. TraceTogether, safer together. Join 650,000 users in stopping the spread of COVID-19 through community-driven contact tracing. Collaboration Singapore's Ministry of Health, GovTech and SGUnited. No geolocation or other personal data collected. https://www.tracetogether.gov.sg/ 2. Frontaal Naakt - Nu is de tijd om het over het gevaar van Rutte te hebben. Blog Frontaal Naakt by Peter Breedveld (NL) https://www.frontaalnaakt.nl/archives/nu-is-de-tijd-om-het-over-het-gevaar-van-rutte-te-hebben.html 4.FOAM : #foamathome free access to the digital archive of whole Foam Magazine collection. https://www.foam.org/nl/museum/foamathome 5. British Army adopts WhatsApp for formal orders as coronavirus isolation kicks in - The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/18/army_adopts_whatsapp_orders_coronavirus 6. The early phase of the COVID-19 outbreak in Lombardy, Italy - Marcello Tirani, Directorate General for Health, Lombardy Region, et al. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.09320.pdf 7. While Cuba sends doctors and nurses abroad to Italy, the island registers its own covid-cases. http://www.granma.cu/cuba-covid-19/2020-03-23/ministerio-de-salud-publica-cinco-nuevos-casos-confirmados-de-covid-19-en-cuba-para-un-total-de-40 8. E-tracking map of the new #Coronavirus in Africa. - Carte de suivi en ligne du #CoViD19 en Afrique. In the twitters. https://twitter.com/NCoVAfrica 9. "Herd Immunity" is Epidemiological Neoliberalism - blog Isabel Frey https://thequarantimes.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/herd-immunity-is-epidemiological-neoliberalism/ 10. Director ACE Pharmaceuticals in Dutch Zeewolde threatened by what can possibly be described as gangsters. The industry produces chloroquine, old malaria medication, now used against covid19. (Dutch) https://www.parool.nl/nederland/directeur-medicijnbedrijf-bedreigd-door-vage-types-die-hoge-bedragen-voor-coronamedicijn-bieden~bfe539c9/ 11. As Ebola outbreak ends, coronavirus begins in DR Congo - Esdras Tsongo, a Congolese reporter and journalist based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, writes for Global Voices. https://globalvoices.org/2020/03/22/as-ebola-outbreak-ends-coronavirus-begins-in-dr-congo/ cheers, Cecile Landman Suggestions? cilela AT xs4all DOT nl @cileland #StaySafe #StayHome # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Mike Davis on COVID-19: The monster is finally at the door
There is also a follow up conversation Daniel Denvir made with Mike Davis for the dig radio, for those who are into (lengthy) podcasts. https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/mike-davis-on-coronavirus-politics/ stay safe, in solidarity dubravka On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, 18:29 nettime's avid reader, wrote: > > By Mike Davis > > Links, International Journal of Socialist Renewal > http://links.org.au/mike-davis-covid-19-monster-finally-at-the-door # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health
Am 22/03/20 um 20:33 schrieb Ana Peraica: > I can here imagine benefits in tracing victims in these unstable > times (severe weather, earthquakes for example), but also at moment > electronic monitoring of self-isolated COVID patients, not obeying > the command to quarantine, but also migrant crisis I suppose? Monitoring quarantine is special, it is more like catching thieves, you may get punished, but here is what happens in Singapore as far as tracing of. infections is concerned. They use an app and bluetooth. Everybody who was within a distance of 5 meters will be notified: https://www.axios.com/singapore-coronavirus-big-brother-bd7cec2b-eb47-4b49-a337-f4f4ecff57f2.html H. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Mike Davis on COVID-19: The monster is finally at the door
By Mike Davis Links, International Journal of Socialist Renewal http://links.org.au/mike-davis-covid-19-monster-finally-at-the-door March 12, 2020 — COVID-19 is finally the monster at the door. Researchers are working night and day to characterize the outbreak but they are faced with three huge challenges. First the continuing shortage or unavailability of test kits has vanquished all hope of containment. Moreover it is preventing accurate estimates of key parameters such as reproduction rate, size of infected population and number of benign infections. The result is a chaos of numbers. There is, however, more reliable data on the virus’s impact on certain groups in a few countries. It is very scary. Italy and Britain, for example, are reporting a much higher death rate among those over 65. The ‘corona flu’ that Trump waves off is an unprecedented danger to geriatric populations, with a potential death toll in the millions. Second, like annual influenzas, this virus is mutating as it courses through populations with different age compositions and acquired immunities. The variety that Americans are most likely to get is already slightly different from that of the original outbreak in Wuhan. Further mutation could be trivial or could alter the current distribution of virulence which ascends with age, with babies and small children showing scant risk of serious infection while octogenarians face mortal danger from viral pneumonia. Third, even if the virus remains stable and little mutated, its impact on under-65 age cohorts can differ radically in poor countries and amongst high poverty groups. Consider the global experience of the Spanish flu in 1918-19 which is estimated to have killed 1 to 2 per cent of humanity. In contrast to the corona virus, it was most deadly to young adults and this has often been explained as a result of their relatively stronger immune systems which overreacted to infection by unleashing deadly ‘cytokine storms’ against lung cells. The original H1N1 notoriously found a favored niche in army camps and battlefield trenches where it scythed down young soldiers down by the tens of thousands. The collapse of the great German spring offensive of 1918, and thus the outcome of the war, has been attributed to the fact that the Allies, in contrast to their enemy, could replenish their sick armies with newly arrived American troops. It is rarely appreciated, however, that fully 60 per cent of global mortality occurred in western India where grain exports to Britain and brutal requisitioning practices coincided with a major drought. Resultant food shortages drove millions of poor people to the edge of starvation. They became victims of a sinister synergy between malnutrition, which suppressed their immune response to infection, and rampant bacterial and viral pneumonia. In another case, British-occupied Iran, several years of drought, cholera, and food shortages, followed by a widespread malaria outbreak, preconditioned the death of an estimated fifth of the population. This history – especially the unknown consequences of interactions with malnutrition and existing infections - should warn us that COVID-19 might take a different and more deadly path in the slums of Africa and South Asia. The danger to the global poor has been almost totally ignored by journalists and Western governments. The only published piece that I’ve seen claims that because the urban population of West Africa is the world’s youngest, the pandemic should have only a mild impact. In light of the 1918 experience, this is a foolish extrapolation. No one knows what will happen over the coming weeks in Lagos, Nairobi, Karachi, or Kolkata. The only certainty is that rich countries and rich classes will focus on saving themselves to the exclusion of international solidarity and medical aid. Walls not vaccines: could there be a more evil template for the future? *** A year from now we may look back in admiration at China’s success in containing the pandemic but in horror at the USA’s failure. (I’m making the heroic assumption that China’s declaration of rapidly declining transmission is more or less accurate.) The inability of our institutions to keep Pandora’s Box closed, of course, is hardly a surprise. Since 2000 we’ve repeatedly seen breakdowns in frontline healthcare. The 2018 flu season, for instance, overwhelmed hospitals across the country, exposing the shocking shortage of hospital beds after twenty years of profit-driven cutbacks of in-patient capacity (the industry’s version of just-in-time inventory management). Private and charity hospital closures and nursing shortages, likewise enforced by market logic, have devastated health services in poorer communities and rural areas, transferring the burden to underfunded public hospitals and VA facilities. ER conditions in such institutions are already unable to cope with seasonal infections, so how will they cope with an imminent overload of critical cases?
Re: Against Agamben: Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible?
folks, thanks for the repost of the thoughtful text by Panagiotis Sotiris. For me an important question about this discourse of responsibility and solidarity is, in how far it can be scaled to larger populations, and transnationally. People need emotional reference points for this... On the question of "care", which he importantly raises, I have greatly benefited from reading the essays in "To Mind Is to Care", published by the V2 in Rotterdam last year (disclaimer: former colleagues of mine): 'To Mind Is to Care', edited by Joke Brouwer & Sjoerd van Tuinen, proposes ethico-aesthetical models of care, in which science does not search for deterministic outcomes, technology does not lead to abandonment, politics does not induce indifference, and art is not marginalized. https://v2.nl/publishing/to-mind-is-to-care (currently only available as print, maybe contact the editors to see whether they can make a digital version available; it is a nicely designed and produced book, so well worth having as book-book...) Regards, -a Am 22.03.20 um 20:14 schrieb nettime's avid reader: Against Agamben: Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible? by Panagiotis Sotiris • 14 March 2020 https://criticallegalthinking.com/2020/03/14/against-agamben-is-a-democratic-biopolitics-possible/ To put this question in a different way: Is it possible to have collective practices that actually help the health of populations, including large-scale behaviour modifications, without a parallel expansion of forms of coercion and surveillance? Foucault himself, in his late work, points towards such a direction, around the notions of truth, parrhesia and care of the self. In this highly original dialogue with ancient philosophy, he suggested an alternative politics of bios that combines individual and collective care in non coercive ways. In such a perspective, the decisions for the reduction of movement and for social distancing in times of epidemics, or for not smoking in closed public spaces, or for avoiding individual and collective practices that harm the environment would be the result of democratically discussed collective decisions. This means that from simple discipline we move to responsibility, in regards to others and then ourselves, and from suspending sociality to consciously transforming it. In such a condition, instead of a permanent individualized fear, which can break down any sense of social cohesion, we move to the idea of collective effort, coordination and solidarity within a common struggle, elements that in such health emergencies can be equally important to medical interventions. And in the current conjuncture, social movements have a lot of room to act. They can ask of immediate measures to help public health systems withstand the extra burden caused by the pandemic. They can point to the need for solidarity and collective self-organization during such a crisis, in contrast to individualized “survivalist” panics. They can insist on state power (and coercion) being used to channel resources from the private sector to socially necessary directions. And they can demand social change as a life-saving exigency. Panagiotis Sotiris is an adjunct faculty member of the Hellenic Open University and editorial board member of the Historical Materialism Journal. Reposted from https://lastingfuture.blogspot.com/ with author’s permission. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: forget about Agamben
> Le 22 mars 2020 à 13:29, mp a écrit : > > Note the general rise ... Flu has been a pandemic across the > world for years, in conjunction with air pollution, malnutrition, > over-medication and other stresses on the human immune system. A > perfect storm...? And at the same time, in many countries, life expectancy rises. Saying this does not deny the fact that there is severe inequality between the "haves" and "have nots", between the "developed" countries, technology equipped with an extensive healthcare system and social security (for some), and the others. Anti-capitalist critique is essential. However, what some people are posting on this list-- the paranoid representation of capitalism, the state, the wealthy as bogeymen who are all trying to transform us into zombies with wallets -- is intellectually deficient. Joe. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
