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The Boston City Council Held an Unprecedented Weekly Last Wednesday Evening, As the COVID-19 Situation Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, Gov THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2020 THE SUN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SERVING BACK BAY - SOUTH END - FENWAY - KENMORE A CITY IN CRISIS: BOSTON COPING WITH THE CORONAVIRUS PHOTO BY KEIKO HIROMI PHOTOS BY KATY ROGERS AND KEIKO HIROMI Women’s Lunch Place Chef Sherry Hughes pushing a cart of food donations through an Shelves were increasingly empty at a supermar- empty dining hall where Women’s Lunch Place usually serves meals in restaurant style. ket in South End over last weekend, as people What is usually a bustling lunchroom on weekdays has become mostly vacant as the Back rushed in a panic to buy food and supplies as Bay non-profit had to suspend its normal lunch and meals program due to the COVID- the COVID-19 response unfolded. Meanwhile, 19 response. Instead, they are offering take-out meals and hygiene/clothing packages. The Rideshare drivers continue to work amidst the beginning of the crisis, serving a prominent COVID-19 responses to helping vulnerable populations is just one of many items on the role in delivering food to those isolating or quarantining in their downtown homes. minds of those coordinating the responses. Walsh, Baker announce measures to combat COVID-19 By Lauren Bennett public with new facts and regula- waiving the one-week waiting tions. period for people to receive unem- No plans to shelter in place Mayor Marty Walsh and Gov- On Wednesday afternoon, Gov- ployment assistance, as well as toring or are under quarantine, near future,” he said in a video ernor Charlie Baker have spoken ernor Charlie Baker announced announced the postponement of according to the Massachusetts message on the evening of March to residents via live-streamed and that all Massachusetts childcare tax payments for some small busi- Department of Public Health. 17. televised addresses over the past and early education centers would nesses. As of press time, the Mayor said He said that many people have several days as the coronavirus close beginning next Monday, As of press time, 2,054 state that 218 Massachusetts residents wondered what is next for the City, situation continues to unfold. As March 23. Some programs will residents are subject to quarantine, have tested positive for the virus, as the San Francisco Bay Area has information related to the virus is be allowed to remain open for the 886 individuals have completed with 45 of those cases in Boston. been ordered to shelter in place, constantly evolving, city and state care of children of first responders monitoring and are no longer in “Public health officials expect officials are regularly updating the and medical personnel. quarantine, and 1168 individuals these numbers to increase in the Baker also signed an order are currently undergoing moni- (COVID-19 UPDATE, Pg. 5) City Council holds historic The Learning Project School Boston Marathon to be run meeting using Zoom first to ‘flatten the curve’ on Sept. 14 as part of festival By Lauren Bennett By Seth Daniel By Seth Daniel The Boston City Council held an unprecedented weekly Last Wednesday evening, as the COVID-19 situation Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, Gov. Charlie Baker and meeting on March 18, where half of the Council appeared in began to feel very real for Boston, one Back Bay school Boston Marathon officials announced they would postpone the Chamber, and the other half participated in the meeting decided it was their moral responsibility to close and sus- the 2020 Boston Marathon until Sept. 14, proposing to have via the remote conferencing program, Zoom, in an attempt pend classes – and became one of the first organizations to a complete weekend-long festival that would support local to follow social distancing guidelines. begin talking about closure as a civic duty. businesses in the Back Bay, Fenway and all along the race- According to the council meeting agenda, “in accordance The Learning Project on Marlborough Street in the Back course. with Governor Charlie Baker’s March 12 Executive Order Bay announced to its families on March 11 that the K-6 The move came on Friday, March 13, and was in response modifying certain requirements of Open Meeting Law private school would be closed in order to help lessen the to the measures taken to curtail the spread of the COVID- to enable public bodies to carry out responsibilities while potential load on medical professionals. 19. It was also a measure that was seemingly out of the ques- adhering to public health recommendations regarding social At that early date in the response, most schools hadn’t tion just three weeks ago. entertained closure yet, and the only ones that did had done Last Friday, all had changed. distancing, the City Council will be limiting in-person atten- so because of specific virus exposure situations. dance for…hearings to Councilors and staff.” The Learning Project’s Head of School Michael McCord (MARATHON., Pg. 4) Council President Kim Janey said that this meeting was said it was ironic because it is a school known to never close. “probably” the last time the Council would come to City Information on what to do if you believe you may (COUNCIL, Pg. 3) (THE LEARNING PROJECT., Pg. 10) be infected with COVID-19 — Page 13 PAGE 2 THE BOSTON SUN MARCH 19, 2020 editorial In a time of need, Southenders THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC: band together on Facebook gestions for working out at home businesses are taking an especially A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THE By Lauren Bennett after many gyms have closed their hard hit, and Fox said that South- U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM While the practice of social doors are also topics of conversa- enders specifically want to support distancing due to the coronavirus tion on the page. There are even South End restaurants. With more In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Americans pandemic has prevented neighbors daily sing-a-longs scheduled for 7 restaurants starting to bring their forever were forced to change the manner in which we traveled. The all over the city from gathering p.m., where residents sing together menus online for pickup and/or strikes on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon made clear that the for community events, many have from their windows—much like delivery service, such as the South screening system we had in place at airports at that time was inadequate creatively figured out how to come videos that have circulated of peo- End Buttery and Stella, “we’re for meeting the threat posed by a determined international terrorist together in other ways to help and ple quarantined in Italy. going to be seeing more and more organization. support each other through these “I think the real measure of of us encouraging to order delivery Long security lines at every airport in this country, as well as around challenging times. the community coming together or to do pickup and this will be a the world, soon became the norm, as new protocols were put into place The South End Community will be when this becomes a little really effective way to support the for our protection against future attacks. Americans didn’t -- and still Board, a Facebook group mod- more acute,” he said, adding that restaurants,” Fox said. don’t -- like them, but all of us understand that the inconvenience and erated by the South End Forum’s a more strict organization of who He said they will push for resi- expense of the enhanced security measures are essential for our safety. Steve Fox, has been a place for needs help and who is willing to dents to support local restaurants Similar to the issue of inadequate airport security before 9/11, the Southenders to connect and pro- help should be implemented. who are struggling. “Anything onset of the world-wide, COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the gross vide ideas and suggestions to pro- “I was asking for how we can we can do to make it happen is shortcomings of the American health care system’s ability to confront a vide assistance to one another, as create a format or a website or a something that all Southenders major health emergency of the magnitude we are facing today. well as to local businesses. The Facebook page or something that are going to be willing to do,” Fox The U.S. is far less capable of dealing with an influx of patients page is typically used by residents would be a one-stop shop,” Fox said. afflicted with coronavirus than every other industrialized nation in the said. “That, I think, is what we “I think we’re in the place right world (as well as many poorer nations). Relative to our population, we to share information or concerns have far fewer doctors, nurses, hospital beds, and acute care capabilities within the neighborhood, but late- need to be prepping for at this now where we’re still reacting to than countries all across the globe that already are struggling with the ly it has turned into a place for time.” the fact that this is happening to onslaught of COVID-19. people to ask for or deliver help in Fox said that a South End sup- us,” he continued. “There’s still With our emergency rooms already at 75-90 percent of capacity at regards to the pandemic. port site will be created “that can a little bit of disbelief that we’re any given time, it will not take much to overwhelm every hospital in Several people on the page have act as a bridge between those who actually in the position that we’re every city in every state if this pandemic comes even close to a worst- offers on the table for things like are willing to provide and those in.” case scenario.
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