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Collection of initiatives to help each other in the COVID-19 crisis.

Contact: BECHA @ ripe.net or BECHA @ xs4all.nl / https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha

Feel free & invited to edit this page, it's a wiki.

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COVID-19 Topics

Hackathons

Articles


Events

April 2020

March 2020



NEW

  • UK: Hack the Quarantine https://hackquarantine.com
    • improving health, remote working and helping vulnerable populations
    • 23. March - 12. April
    • Platform: Discord 
One interesting concern is that there are many of these, and you could make an argument that they’d be stronger and faster in working together. Organizing that on global scale is probably impossible though (you’d need loads of marketing) — so I think local initiatives are wonderful!
I’d encourage us to do a bit of desk research & reach out to other teams to ‘steal’ their concepts (or contribute). → For example there are ventilator projects in the US, Finland, and Ireland, as I observed in my network. No shame in taking someone’s design and mass manufacturing it for your community.
Which is better in the current state? Spending three weeks developing a great, cheap ventilator design or spending three weeks 3D-printing and assembling 2000 pieces of a design made in New York?
I’d suggest whoever wants to help to either a) invest in organizing a complete project group well, or b) consider giving up your own idea and contribute what you do best to someone else!
Our goal is to share our knowledge to act fast, save lives, and limit economic fallout…. beyond inventing clever things! (Joe Pacal)


My contributions


  • Creatively Connecting Communities
    • I want to cross-link all of these separate hackathons!
    • Let's combine our strengths & work on this together!
    • I'm interested in OPEN communication & sharing of knowledge, data, ideas, results

hackathon-list@ripe.net & https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/hackathon-list/

Results

Documentation & Tips

Final Results


Masks

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Ventilators

an ICU ventilator is a profoundly simple device. Here’s how it works: the patient is sedated enough to tolerate having a breathing tube secured in the trachea. The breathing tube connects to the ventilator by a hose. As the patient initiates a breath, the machine detects a slight drop in pressure, and a piston-driven cylinder pushes a measured volume of oxygen into the patient’s lungs. If the patient doesn’t or can’t start a breath, the machine will automatically do so after a few seconds. At some point, the machine either successfully delivers the required volume or reaches a maximum safe pressure and automatically cycles so that air can come back out of the patient’s lungs and through a separate hose. Pause. Repeat. Minute after minute, hour after hour. If necessary, for days.


Internet Measurements

&

Privacy Security Surveillance

That means that everyone must have access to a simple smartphone and to the internet. For years, we have seen countless studies and media reports about the “digital divide” and how it must be bridged if all Americans can fully participate in our economy and society. The divide has been closing but is still too wide. The COVID pandemic fundamentally changes the debate and underscores how not being plugged into the internet not only can deprive kids of their education (as schools have gone to remote learning during this pandemic) but is now actually essential for all of us.

Technical Communities Coordinations


Funding

Here are some calls with available funding:

& more (older offers) https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Funding

Open Communication Platforms

  • wiki... like this one!!
fairchat.net messenger for web and as app (Slack & WhatsApp replacement)
fairmeeting video or audio conference (Skype replacement)
board.net joint editing pad
faircloud (like Dropbox)
syncing of files, calendar and address book
online editor (like in Office 365 / Google Docs)
manage group permissions in circles
Image gallery
2FA (Two-Factor-Authentication) possible
forward secrecy encryption DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
GDPR compliant

DataViz

Dutch Situation
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  • THE NEW APPROACH: https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/
    • "This interactive charts the new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past week vs. the total confirmed cases to date. When plotted in this way, exponential growth is represented as a straight line that slopes upwards. Notice that almost all countries follow a very similar path of exponential growth" - and the DROP shows that the "peak" was reached!
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&https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending27march2020


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  • April 1-10 2020
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Articles with visualizations

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  • Which country has flattened the curve / Where Countries Are on the Curve

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/19/world/coronavirus-flatten-the-curve-countries.html

Videos

Tips

General Tips

  1. 1. Disease transmission is under control
  2. 2. Health systems are able to "detect, test, isolate and treat every case and trace every contact"
  3. 3. Hot spot risks are minimized in vulnerable places, such as nursing homes
  4. 4. Schools, workplaces and other essential places have established preventive measures
  5. 5. The risk of importing new cases "can be managed"
  6. 6. Communities are fully educated, engaged and empowered to live under a new normal

Mental Health

Physical Health

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  • FAO:

Community Care

Virtual Events aka Remote Conferences

Working From Home

  • GitHub guide https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/
  • Tech-Ladies Work From Home (WFH) Recommendations
  • How to optimise WFH space article
  • Alice Goldfuss on work in the time of corona


    • Or not: 

    & https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Working_Less

    Office After Corona

    Corona & Climate

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    • https://newrepublic.com/article/157361/public-health-depends-healthy-planet
      • our increasingly interconnected world—which we treat with insufficient care. Decades of explosive human population growth and an increasingly mobile population—an average of 12 million people traveled daily by plane in 2019—have put us in close contact, squeezed natural habitats, and forced wild animals to occupy cities or perish. According to a recent United Nations report, habitat destruction and climate change are the leading factors putting one million species on the brink of extinction. Many surviving, stressed animals carry high virus loads
      • Humans’ insatiable desire to eat meat is also increasing spillover potential. Crowding livestock (pigs, chickens) at feeding operations was a factor in emerging infectious diseases such as the H1N1 swine flu outbreak of 2009 and the H5N1 bird flu of 1997. Poaching, overhunting, and consumption of wild animals as food or trade, combined with the loss of predators that keep host animals like mice and deer in check, accumulate risks. All of this will worsen as we heat up the planet, force more animals out of natural habitats, expand year-round mosquito and tick ranges, alter bird and bat migrations, and melt the permafrost that may be harboring soon-to-be-released infectious organisms.


    Art

    Politics

    ... & philosophy & economy & ecology & feminism & tech & anti-capitalism & anarchism ... 

    "Access to adequate health care, including protective equipment and sufficient testing, will do more good than another hackathon."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/coronavirus-surveillance-privacy-rights.html
    • 16th April 2020 Charlie Stross's predictions https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/04/itll-all-be-over-by-christmas.html
      • we're going to see repeated 4-6 week lockdown periods alternating with 2-4 week "business as usual" patches. Somewhere during the second or third lockdown most of the pubs/bars/hotels/restaurants that hibernated during the first lockdown and came back from the dead will give up the ghost: by September-November the damage to about 10-30% of the economy, disproportionately the service sector, will be permanent
      • By September there's going to be social unrest just about everywhere that hasn't nailed down a massive social spending/social security project on a scale that makes the New Deal look restrained and conservative.
    • 17th April, predictions form a Swedish epidemiologist: https://unherd.com/thepost/coming-up-epidemiologist-prof-johan-giesecke-shares-lessons-from-sweden/
      • Covid-19 is a “mild disease” and similar to the flu, and it was the novelty of the disease that scared people. The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1% At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available
      • (emphasis on STRIKETHROUGH mine)
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    Labor is now  more crucial than capital to beat the virus, however individual                                          
workers are expendable. This has to change and the precariat is                                          
rising, from amazon warehouses to instacart supermarkets, from                                           
deliveroo to wal-mart. Precarious workers now have the power although                                    
they are exposed to so many more risks in comparison to white-collar                                     
teleworkers. Health, sanitation, cleaning, retail, delivery, food                                        
workers are the ones we depend on to survive during the monadic                                          
lockdown. No work must be perfomed without protection. Since capital                                     
is callous, the ultimate form of social distancing is the general                                        
strike. Labor must strike to protect society from business. Precarious    
                              people are owed total health coverage, universal social transfers,                                       
hazard and sick pay, protection from anti-union dismissals (see staten                           
       island) but especially a doubling of the wage that reflects their                                        
social value. Bankers and CEOs have never been more useless, it's the                             
      bodies and minds of health temps and gig workers who are saving our asses.
    • OMG financial times turns socialist!!!

    https://www.ft.com/content/7eff769a-74dd-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca 

    Radical reforms — reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades — will need to be put on the table. Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy. They must see public services as investments rather than liabilities, and look for ways to make labour markets less insecure. Redistribution will again be on the agenda; the privileges of the elderly and wealthy in question. Policies until recently considered eccentric, such as basic income and wealth taxes, will have to be in the mix.”


    Anarchism

    Collection 1: https://becha.home.xs4all.nl/Anarchist-Analysis-of-Corona-Crisis-Spring-2020.pdf

    (& links dump, to be sorted later)

    http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/ From: https://north-shore.info/2020/03/20/ask-a-diffferent-question-reclaiming-autonomy-of-action-during-the-virus/ Original: https://nantes.indymedia.org/articles/49289 From: https://www.vrijebond.org/solidarity-doesnt-go-into-quarantine/ Original: https://www.umanitanova.org/?p=11724 & more: https://crimethinc.com/2020/03/12/against-the-coronavirus-and-the-opportunism-of-the-state-anarchists-in-ital$ https://www.umanitanova.org/?p=11756 From: http://autonomies.org/2020/03/the-coronavirus-as-a-declaration-of-war/ Original: https://www.elcritic.cat/opinio/santiago-lopez-petit/el-coronavirus-com-a-declaracio-de-guerra-52417 https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/mike-davis-coronavirus-outbreak-capitalism-left-international-solidarity https://www.cadtm.org/The-Capitalist-Pandemic-Coronavirus-and-the-Economic-Crisis & https://www.cadtm.org/No-the-coronavirus-is-not-responsible-for-the-fall-of-stock-prices http://autonomies.org/2020/03/the-corona-virus-politics-in-times-of-catastrophe-9/ https://lundi.am/Des-chauve-souris-et-des-hommes-politiques-epidemiques-et-coronavirus http://www.zones-sensibles.org/frederic-keck-les-sentinelles-des-pandemies/ From: http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6454 From: http://links.org.au/coronavirus-pandemic-eight-theses-covid-19 Original: https://www.gaucheanticapitaliste.org/huit-theses-sur-le-coronavirus/ http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6457 https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2003/msg00067.html https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/ http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/ https://eand.co/the-upsides-of-a-global-pandemic-4dbb00be4a03 https://eand.co/what-happens-after-capitalism-c990c111273d https://cbmilstein.wordpress.com/2020/03/13/collective-care-is-our-best-weapon-against-covid-19/ & https://covidmutualaid.org/local-groups/ https://www.ianalanpaul.com/the-corona-reboot/ @davidgraeber: on bullshit jobs https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/ & https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs.pdf https://abeautifulresistance.org/site/2017/8/17/white-privilege-in-dutch-anarchism https://kwanj.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf Down to earth: go work on the farm! https://www.farminguk.com/news/call-for-brits-to-pick-fruit-and-veg-amid-coronavirus-outbreak_55237.html?fbclid=IwAR0_QKOUQfn7rdG6kkgSIKu7Fr7fvpF8Qnd9qXllJ1sH7TSVB_tJiF76Z-Y http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed 

    Collection 2

    Possibilities in a time of epistemic and institutional crisis / jahed momand / Mar 27

      • Tip: Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving, Contact Tracing Without Central Authorities
      • Decentralized, Evidence-Based Community Health Guidelines that Actually Work™ https://www.endcoronavirus.org/page/faq
      • 3-D Printing Face Shields, Face Masks, and Sterilizable Stethoscopes: Expanding 3-D Printing Infrastructure to Those Most in Need
    Solidarity is not charity. It is the recognition that the struggle of one is the struggle of all.

    Mutual Aid

    if people really believed they could participate meaningfully in a mass campaign to care for others and pressure public officials to adopt humane emergency policies, we can be confident that hundreds of thousands would quickly join in.

    [historically], it was crucial that participants had a sense that they were part of something larger than the sum of individual efforts. Intentional moves toward unity and coordination help build that collective understanding.

    mutual aid, a common story, strategy and structure can allow a mass movement to legitimate political demands that might otherwise be deemed impractical or undesirable, and to compel public officials to adopt them (?) .

    ideas like emergency universal basic income, free testing and treatment for all, and suspension of rent and mortgage payments for those unable to pay during the crisis. (FOR ALL!) 

    But true resilience cannot be achieved alone. Disaster resilience is built on community care and mutual aid.

    “Disasters are, most basically, terrible, tragic, grievous, and no matter what positive side effects and possibilities they produce, they are not to be desired … . But disaster doesn’t sort us out by preferences; it drags us into emergencies that require we act, and act altruistically, and bravely.” — Rebecca Solnit, “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster”
    • #FightInequality @FightInequality

    After the #Covid19 pandemic, we need to create a world in which we are all equal and where there is no hunger and social insecurity.

    Female Voices

     I want to live a good life and I want to risk my life, because I can also lose my life in one night.’ You realise that life has to be lived well or is not worth living. It’s a very profound transformation that takes place during catastrophes.”
there is meaning as well as pain in sadness, mourning and grief, the emotions born of empathy and solidarity. If you are sad and frightened, it is a sign that you care, that you are connected in spirit. If you are overwhelmed – well, it is overwhelming
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