1) This should go without saying but: Be maximally supportive of social distancing. When health authorities urge cancellation of all public/group events, CANCEL ALL PUBLIC OR GROUP EVENTS. Do not push the envelope. Show others what immediate action to #FlattenTheCurve looks like
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Lara Putnam Retweeted Smash the COVID Curve
2) Push elected officials and employers hard, immediately, for paid sick leave, to allow working people to make choices that will slow the epidemic.https://twitter.com/SmashCOVIDCurve/status/1237741473556242432 …
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Smash the COVID Curve @SmashCOVIDCurveThis is grim news from a@Walmart employee. Walmart, you're the #1 employer in the world. Paid sick leave stops epidemics. When you don't do it, it makes your company a highway for infection. Walmart: Make paid sick leave for ALL staff company policy. Now.#flatteningthecurve pic.twitter.com/7reJl6bpBlShow this thread1 reply 2 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
3) If one of your members has ties to public health officials, they can reach out to let officials know your group exists, & that you can help to share health information messaging or with other outreach. (If you don't already have ties, now isn't the time to try to create them.)
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4) Support each other within your group. Some members will be at high risk due to age or medical conditions, others because they work in healthcare [you know how I keep saying that nurses are remaking politics?] Plan out now what kinds of check-ins or backup will be helpful.
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5) Set up a system of regular phone check-ins on elderly residents within your district—to provide eg food drop off if needed, or just human contact to protect against the emotional impact of isolationhttps://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/threat-to-health/ …
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More on social distancing: This immediate and proactive move, from
@go_grant &@HeinzEndow, shows the benchmark that civic groups should be following http://www.heinz.org/blog-the-point/blog-detail/?id=70 …pic.twitter.com/GsOEC8hpp7
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Lara Putnam Retweeted Lara Putnam
Here's a link to the conversation with
@pickettjessica that sparked this line of inquiry. If you're not already following her you should be: we all need more wise global health economists in our timelines right nowhttps://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1236815564519194624 …Lara Putnam added,
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Meanwhile how are grassroots organizers & campaign staff responding to changing realities & the need to
#FlattenTheCurve? This thread is a great example of clear & decisive re-channeling into actions appropriate to this moment
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A relevant thread coming fr a different tradition. It's not happenstance that at a moment when much of govt is failing to act, & so leaving coordination dilemmas unsolved, methods that, literally, anarchists have developed turn out to be very applicable https://twitter.com/prisonculture/status/1238831991849697282 …
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Lara Putnam Retweeted Ground Game LA
See also this
, also from a group anchored in the anarchist mutual aid tradition (note: very diff group, in origins location & politics, from the women-led suburban post-'16 grassroots groups I started this thread w/r/t)https://twitter.com/GroundGameLA/status/1238997684553302017 …Lara Putnam added,
Ground Game LA @GroundGameLAAs always we are working in concert with other organizations across Los Angeles to be as efficient as possible and prioritize helping those who need it most. Please support our efforts and connect with us if you want to be a part of our ongoing fight for liberation.Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread
The anarchists of my acquaintance have an almost comical love for organization and bureaucracy
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