
The lords mayor of three Irish cities have united to call for a nationwide lockdown.

The lords mayor of three Irish cities have united to call for a nationwide lockdown.

Chen, Ronghui, Freezing Land 30, 2016-2018, Archival inkjet printImage | Courtesy of the artist and Three Shadows +3 Gallery. Collection Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
What does photography tell us about the life experiences of the individual faced with a radical transformation of society? What visual languages does a generation of younger artists in China invent in its search for self-understanding?
A selection of seventy photographs by fourteen Chinese artists is presented in this exhibition — all works that Dr. Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek has acquired for the foundation on her numerous trips to China. After Robert Rauschenberg’s great series in the last exhibition, Study for Chinese Summerhall of 1983, with its Western look at China, these photographs offer inside views of the artists living in that country. Their themes revolve around self-perception, subjective experiences, and everyday ways of living. They range from documentation of the explosive social change by way of critical perception of the new living conditions in the metropolises and in the countryside to attentiveness to its vanishing cultural heritage. Whether in quiet, black-and-white aesthetic suggestive of documentaries or as a dramatic presentation in color, they all tell of the artists’ own experiences: About Us. With themes such as memory and history, melancholy and resistance, dream and vision, body and individuality, they concern the search for one’s own identity. They are mirrors of ideas and fears, of isolation and lust for life, of curiosity and depression, of coolness and confusion of their authors.

Chen Wei, Dance Hall (Blueness), 2013, Archival inkjet printImage | Courtesy of the artist and Blindspot Gallery. Collection Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung

Yang, Fudong, International Hotel No. 11, 2010, Inkjet printImage | Courtesy of the artist and Blindspot Gallery. Collection Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
A new generation of artists completely transformed their artistic production in the 1980s and 1990s after the Cultural Revolution in China ended. After Socialist Realism, ideology and propaganda, they developed new concepts and visual languages and a wealth of styles and techniques. The concept “experimental photography” attempts to sum up the complex and yet very different experimental and conceptual works produced from the 1990s to the present. Their diversity is also reflected in the selection of artists represented in the exhibition, several of whom are internationally renowned, while others are largely unknown outside of China.
This exhibition is intended as a contribution to the discourse on contemporary photography in China, a country that is increasingly a decisive political and economic power internationally, though its visual worlds are little known in the medium of photography in the Western world. These photographs, where their autobiographical narratives, subjective worlds of ideas, alternative models and visions offer insight into the individual complex emotional and experiential worlds of a generation of young artists who use photograph as their medium in diverse ways in their search for identity in the turbulences of a changing society.
Exhibited artists: Adou . Birdhead . Cai Dongdong . Chen Ronghui . Chen Wei . Gao Mingxi . Jiang Pengyi . Liang Xiu . Ren Hang . RongRong . RongRong & Inri . Wang Ningde . Yang Fudong . Zhang Xiao
More information:
About Us. Young Photography from China
27 March 2020 to 30 October 2020
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Karl-Theodor-Straße 27, 80803 Munich (Germany)
www.atutsek-stiftung.de

Well, one good thing about sheltering at home and everything being closed: I can do more social media, including blogs. I’m sitting at home trying to imagine what its like for gig economy workers, for all those who’ve been laid off and don’t know how they’ll make ends meet. Then I read about the enormous bail outs the Trump administration is trying to get passed—billions to the multi-billion dollar airlines industry. $3 billion for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. One existential crisis must not be used to fuel another! The companies that are poisoning the planet and its people and climate shouldn’t receive a penny! The Democrats are fighting mightily to stop the corporate bailouts, calling for things like immediate cash transfers of $2000 to all adults and $1000 to every child every month till the crisis is over as well as more aid to small businesses and not to huge corporations who will recover more easily and money for medical necessities, protective gear for health workers, and so much more. Just as I am writing this, news came that the Democrats have managed to halt this egregious bill –for now. . . All the American citizens who read my blog, please call your senator tomorrow and tell them you demand the coronavirus package support 1.) the direct cash assistance I just mentioned, 2.) no unaccountable corporate bailouts, 3.) stronger economic supports for families,4.) no bail out of the fossil fuel industry at all, 5.) vote by mail and 6.) immediate assistance to the healthcare workers and hospitals.
Not all quid pro quos are impeachable. For instance, if the aviation industry wants a bailout, make them agree to lower their carbon footprint and support their laid off workers…or no money. I signed a letter saying just that which is going to the Senate but you can tell your Senator. They’ll listen if so many of us call their phone lines go down so call 1-877-969-2590.
On the lighter side, a group of my neighbors and I gathered around a fountain at the end of our street, standing 6 feet or more apart, and had ‘quarantinis’ while Frank Sinatra songs wafted out one of their windows. We’re making its weekly routine. It helped.
Everyone seems to have a different reaction to the crisis and how it’s changed our lives. I can’t imagine how hard it is for professional women who work from home and now have several kids to deal with, homeschool, entertain. I wonder hopefully if the guys ho are also sequestered will start going some of that child care work themselves. I read that one husband who now is homeschooling said that after a few days, he thought teachers should earn CEO salaries. YES! Or think of the women with abusive husbands in ‘shelter at home’ situations. Some folks are going stir crazy. Some are in deep panic. I am in panic but it’s about the climate crisis which will be far more devastating but people find it hard to react to things that aren’t right there in front of them like COVID 19 is right now. Of course the climate crisis is ‘right there’ for a whole lot of people in the world.
My very smart daughter, Vanessa, says this: “The deforestation we cause in the name of cattle feed and grazing also lets loose a whole world of issues, namely exposure to viruses and other pathogens that normally would remain in the animal world. All the great pandemics, from AIDS to Ebola and SARS started in animals. Diseases that have been contained in the natural, wild areas of Earth are now let loose upon the human species who of course have no resistance or immunity. That’s just a land-use health impact: in terms of pandemics, the melting of permafrost caused by climate warming also releases plethora of pathogens that have not seen the light of day in millennia. People who don’t think climate is an issue might think differently next time there is a global flu pandemic.”
She’s right. over population, poverty and food insecurity, make people venture into forests and kill things like monkeys and bats and bring them to what are called ‘wet markets’ where people and other food are exposed to these disease-bearing animals. It’s not the animals fault. Lyme disease became a real problem in certain parts of this country when woods were cut down for development, weather got warmer and tick-bearing deer and other animals came into more frequent contact with humans. These things are interrelated
So let’s use this virus crisis as a teachable moment and find ways to fight against the lobbyists and politicians who stand up for corporations and the already rich instead of working people, families, nurses, small businesses and the climate. We need a strong Federal government that work for the people and that is prepared for crisis.
Till next time, stay safe, stay healthy and stay strong. Use this time productively. 
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For The Spinoff, Toby Morris illustrates how individuals can break a chain of events:
The good news is, we can do things that will reduce the chances of us spreading the virus. That means we can break these chains and potentially stop hundreds or even thousands of people getting Covid-19. Check out The Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris’ excellent illustration to understand how individual discipline can have an outsize impact.
Of course infection between people in a community is more complex. Just because one chain is broken doesn’t mean people further down won’t be infected by others in some other way. The goal though is to break as many chains as possible.
Tags: animation, cartoon, coronavirus, Spinoff

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has emerged as a lone voice of reason during President Trump’s daily covid-19 press briefings. He’s the one person Americans have been able to rely on to separate fact from administration-ordained fiction, and that’s…
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Borders mean nothing to the virus. When this is over, will we choose to define ourselves by them less?
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It is a bit sobering to realize that if I were living in some parts of Northern Italy right now, and had severe COVID-19 respiratory disease, I might not qualify for an ICU bed or a ventilator given my age (66), and moderate comorbidities.
Of course, I’m lucky enough to live in Florida, and probably need not worry about that for another month, maybe longer.
Welcome to ventilator triage, a world where medical needs exceed immediately available resources, and very tough decisions have to be made. As a former paramedic, I understand the realities facing us – because in the past – I’ve had to make similar decisions, albeit not very often, and on a much smaller scale.
We aren’t talking about withholding last ditch, heroic treatments from terminal patients, or from those so badly injured where such measures are deemed futile. That happens all the time, in hospitals, ambulances, and hospices across the country.
With triage, you are confronted with more potentially-salvageable severely ill or injured patients than you can possibly care for, and you must prioritize who gets treated, and who doesn’t. Normally, we think of this occurring in a mass casualty incident, like on a battlefield, at a train wreck, plane crash, or a building collapse, or in a multi-car pile up on the Interstate.
In some hospitals in Italy right now, they have far more critically ill COVID-19 patients than they have ICU beds, ventilators, and trained personnel to care for them. And according to multiple media reports, they are having to decide which patients to treat, and which to allow to die.
The same scenario is likely playing out in Iran, undoubtedly occurred in Wuhan City, China at the height of their epidemic, and will very likely start happening with greater frequency around the world as COVID-19 spreads.
The reason behind the `flatten the curve‘ strategy being adopted by governments around the world is to try to avoid the `Italy scenario‘, by limiting the number of severely ill cases needing ICU treatment at any given time.
In normal times, ICU beds and ventilators are assigned on first-come-first serve basis. If you are put on a vent, you stay on the vent until you improve, or a decision is made by the patient’s doctors and family that improvement is no longer likely.
During a pandemic, or other surge event, decisions are far less clear-cut. Deciding who gets a vent, and for how long, becomes an ethical minefield. We’ve talked about this nightmare scenario many times over the past 14 years, but most recently in Ventilator Shortages And Pandemic Triage.
Different countries will use different criteria for deciding how to prioritize patients, and while many nations are still debating the issue, the UK has apparently adopted a two-pronged approach.
The first involves determining a patient’s Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) or score.
NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) has published guidelines using the above Frailty score, to help clinicians prioritize COVID-19 patients for critical care treatment.
See the critical care admission algorithm.
2.1 Discuss the risks, benefits and possible likely outcomes of the different treatment options with patients, families and carers using decision support tools (where available) so that they can make informed decisions about their treatment wherever possible. See information to support decision making.
2.2 Involve critical care teams in discussions about admission to critical care for a patient where:
- the CFS score suggests the person is less frail (for example the score is less than 5), they are likely to benefit from critical care organ support and they want critical care treatment or
- the CFS score suggests the person is more frail (for example the score is 5 or more), there is uncertainty regarding the likely benefit of critical care organ support, and critical care advice is needed to help the decision about treatment.
Take into account the impact of underlying pathologies, comorbidities and severity of acute illness on the likelihood of critical care treatment achieving the desired outcome.
2.3 Support non-critical care healthcare professionals to discuss treatment plans with patients who would not benefit from critical care treatment or who do not wish to be admitted to critical care.
2.4 Sensitively discuss a possible ‘do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ decision with all adults with capacity and a CFS score suggestive of increased frailty (for example of 5 or more). Include in the discussion:
- the possible benefits of any critical care treatment options
- the possible risks of critical care treatment options
- the possible likely outcomes.
Involve a member of the critical care team if the patient or team needs advice about critical care to make decisions about treatment.
2.5 Ensure healthcare professionals have access to resources to support discussions about treatment plans (see for example decision-making for escalation of treatment and referring for critical care support, and an example decision support form).
2.6 Ensure that when treatment outside critical care is the agreed course of action, patients receive optimal care within the ward.
If all of this seems somewhat cold and calculated. It is.
But it beats assigning ICU beds based on non-medical criteria, like how much money someone has, or how `connected‘ they are (not that I don’t expect that will happen).
Personally, if I were in charge, I would put all active 1st responders and HCWs at the top of the list. Then triage the rest. But that’s just me.
In the months ahead we may see 3 , 4, 5 . . . or even more critically ill patients for every available ventilator. And while I’ve seen some interesting schemes for maximizing ventilators (such as 4 patients on 1 vent), some people simply aren’t going to get the lifesaving treatment they need.
Of course the more staffed and equipped ICU beds we can bring online in the weeks and months ahead, the fewer heartbreaking decisions will have to be made. The longer we can delay the rise of COVID-19 cases, the more lives we can save.
In many parts of the world, however, ICU beds are almost non-existent, and prospects for adding more are slim at best. COVID-19 will undoubtedly hit these ill equipped regions the hardest.
While I’m in no hurry to shuffle off this mortal coil, I have to admit that if I’m denied an ICU bed because of an agreed upon, and reasonably fair triage scheme, I’ll take some solace in knowing someone with a better shot of survival was given a chance.
And I can live with that.

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