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Support Small Business

On Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Never Forget Foundation launched a fundraising program to support small business. The goal is to help deliver financial grants and PPE to small companies – especially those that support local fire, rescue, and police services – and to get PPE into the hands of responders on the front lines of the COVID19 pandemic.

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We know that the federal Small Business Administration has not got the job done through the SBA EIDL – Economic Injury Disaster Loans – or the Paycheck Protection Program. Report after report has come out saying big business has gotten SBA loans meant for small business. We know we can do better and we want to focus on the mom and pop and local shops that support our public safety community every day.

We support small business

Our non profit is intentionally diverse so we can represent all of America. We also look to support the entire community of businesses that supply our needs. This is so that everyone has an opportunity to succeed and overcome adversity and challenge.

We want to make sure that in those communities where business restrictions exist we can offer support also whether it is Dallas, Texas or San Francisco, California.

Our goal is to keep minority, woman, and/or veteran owned small business afloat during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Most grants and loans probably won’t protect members of the service industry. They won’t protect the party planner, your favorite boutiques, beautician, barber, food trucks, or many other small businesses.

Our project is hoping to help pay rents, booth costs, and equipment rental/storage fees for minority, woman, and/or veteran owned small business. We know everyone needs time to adjust to the new normal without drowning in deferred debt. We also want to buy PPE from these groups for delivery to their local responders.

With your donations we will be able to help small business, especially minority, woman, and/or veteran owned small business and get PPE to the healthcare providers fighting COVID19.

Our immediate goal is to cover their rent. Every $10,000.00 collected can give four to five minority, woman, and/or veteran owned small business another month to make adjustments.

Please donate and share this to keep small businesses afloat across the nation during COVID19! Please share #NeverForgetSmallBiz and donate today.

 

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Bush 43 COVID19 Message

President George W Bush 43 delivered a COVID19 message powerfully to America. It called for an end to partisanship in favor of everyone helping their community.

Bush tweeted on Saturday a video encouraging Americans to be their best selves during the coronavirus pandemic.

“We serve our neighbor by separating from them,” Bush said in the video. “We cannot allow physical separation to become emotional isolation. This requires us to not only be compassionate but creative in our outreach.”

He added, “Let us remember empathy and simple kindness are essential, powerful tools of national recovery. Even at an appropriate social distance, we can find the way to be present in the lives of others. … In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants. We’re human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God.”

President George H W Bush 41 and President George W Bush 43 – Commitment to Service

George W Bush 43 Portrait

Both Presidents Bush have been known for their commitment to public service.

From the end of his one term as president through his death at 94, President Bush 41 turned his focus toward inspiring others to pursue public service through his Points of Light Foundation. He also worked with former President Bill Clinton to raise funds in the wake of natural disasters such as the 2004 southeast Asian tsunami.

Simiularly President Bush 43 has been involved with the AIDS/HIV epidemic in Africa, empowering women in the public realm, and the Call to Unite program.

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Colorado Paramedic Dies In COVID19 Response

A Colorado paramedic dies in the COVID19 response. Paul Cary, 66, volunteered to go to New York with Ambulnz’s coronavirus response team, his employer confirmed to KDVR News. Paul from the Denver metro area died Thursday after treating COVID-19 patients in New York City.

Colorado Paramedic Dies In COVID19 Response

Cary tested positive for the virus about one week ago.

Like September 11 attacks, responders from across the nation are joining their comrades from across the country. “He risked his own health and safety to protect others and left this world a better place. We are at peace knowing that Paul did what he loved and what he believed in, right up until the very end,” his family said in a statement.

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Before working as an EMS paramedic for Ambulnz, an ambulance services provider, Cary spent more than 30 years with Aurora Fire Rescue as a firefighter and paramedic. Cary is survived by two sons and four grandchildren. Funeral details have not yet been announced.

COVID19 Line of Duty Deaths

Fire and police associations are working towards creating a Line of Duty Death – LODD list for confirmed deaths secondary to COVID19.

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Conquering COVID19 – FDNY EMS Responds

Conquering COVID19

The New York Times profiled two paramedics conquering COVID19 in a piece about EMS response to COVID19 in New York City. The article which looks at the lives of Kenny Cheng and Sean Mahoney responding to “regular” calls and COVID19. The surprise in the reporter’s voice seems to hit the mark again and again: ‘Such is the disturbing new normal for the city’s paramedics, whose days can be mundane until — suddenly — they are not.’ It’s as if the media does not realize this is day to day responding to other people’s worst day.

Conquering COVID19

Conquering COVID19: From classroom to emergency room

The two paramedics, Cheng and Mahoney, are instructors at FDNY Fort Totten (Queens) Station 60. Like 9-11 and Superstorm Sandy, the two have been called back to the streets to alleviate staffing responding to the numerous calls in New York.

Each day the two EMS Instructors with their colleagues gather for a moment of silence. The article recounts the updates on friends and co-workers who contracted COVID19. One comrade in fighting the ugly disease, Idris Bey, was named on Monday, but died by Friday, just four days later.

This pandemic is a reminder that the bravest are often forgotten in their fight against silent killers which are far less spectacular than gun fights or high rise fires.

Conquering COVID19: Protocols

The article also talks briefly about the bizarre symptomology of this disease which has confounded both medics and ER staff. Standard ACLS protocols do not seem to be as effective – and may be inapproppriate according to some researchers.

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What’s Hart Island Hiding?

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Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart’s Island, is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the Bronx Bourough of New York City. It measures almost a mile and is used as New York City’s Potter Field gravesite.

The remains of more than one million people are buried on Hart Island. Since the start of the 21st century, there are fewer than 1,500 burials a year. Burials on Hart Island include individuals who were not claimed by their families or did not have private funerals; the homeless and the indigent; and mass burials of disease victims.

Access to the island is restricted by the Department of Correction, which operates an infrequent ferryboat service and imposes strict visitation quotas. Burials are conducted by inmates from the Rikers Island jail. The Hart Island Project, a public charity founded by visual artist Melinda Hunt, has tried to improve access to the island and make burial records more easily available. Prior to 2019, several laws to transfer jurisdiction to the Parks Department had been proposed to ease public access to Hart Island.

In the linked article Steinmetz says, “To me, I start wondering if the word is out: ‘Hey, keep people out of Hart Island, because it makes us look bad.’”

While Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration claimed this is an issue of protecting privacy there are several holes in that story. First, the persons buried on Hart Island are unclaimed by family or friends. Second, there are no open caskets. The journalists are simply recording the numbers and size of trenches to correlate to COVID19 data which indicates a pandemic much worse than publicly stated.

On Wednesday plain clothes officers with New York Police Department seized a drone being flown by award winning photojournalist George Steinmetz. Steinmetz has spent four decades shooting news for National Geographic and The New York Times Magazine.

Hart Island Grave Trench

Hart Island History

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