Weekly News Recap: March 27, 2020
Weekly News Recap: Friday, March 27, 2020
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta chief medical officer of health, delivers a COVID-19 update while wearing a dress emblazoned with the periodic table of elements. LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again. -- Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
A NOTE TO OUR READERS
To our faithful recap readers, you have, no doubt, already noticed that the recap does not look anything like it did last week. This change has been a long time coming. And like many things in this extraordinary time, it was nudged into life by the needs of the moment. Going forward, the recap will have ten themes each week. Some of these themes loosely resemble our previous categories and some will emerge depending on the news and events of that week. I hope we did not send you off the deep end with this new format. I am interested in your comments and criticisms of this change. Feel free to let me know how you really feel. Until then, please stay safe and stay sane.
LAST WEEK'S MOST POPULAR LINKS
+ Updated every minute, 17-year-old whiz kid’s coronavirus site used by millions (Times of Israel)
+ Dr. Deena Hinshaw fan club (Facebook)
+ WORKING FROM HOME DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC BINGO (McSweeneys)
+ I Work from Home (New Yorker)
+ Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Min Jin Lee and Others on the Books That Bring Them Comfort (New York Times)
1 ~ FUNDRAISING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
+ We have been busy. You have been busy. We have all been busy. Here is ViTreo's most recent blog post: COVID-19 WHEN IS IT APPROPRIATE TO ASK?; one of the most timely and important podcasts we have ever done: Higher Education Advancement in the time of COVID-19;and a freshly updated set of resources including links to both individual and organizational funding sources.
2 ~ IRREPRESSIBLE HUMANITY
+ How selfless is this? Cuban doctors arrive in Italy. Video is taken in Havana, as doctors were leaving, hence the crowds. This is perfect really; they want to help and they understand the pressures. I heart this. In Edmonton, U of A medical students providing child care to doctors' kids. This man! He is 95 years old and he still can't stand still. Jimmy Carter asks for Carter Center donations to be redirected for coronavirus relief. We are lucky to live in his time.
+ Calgary's Sam Hestor inspires us again with her comic-book artistry in The Sprawl's This Time Is Not Wasted (watch for the Dr. Deena Hinshaw cameo). And, a young woman's jingle dress dancing goes 'viral' on social media to help heal the world.
3 ~ OLYMPICS 2021 AND OTHER NEWSMAKERS
+ The Olympics will be in Tokyo. And they will be in July. But of 2021. Tokyo Olympics officially postponed. Our national parks are now closed due to coronavirus, Canada Post is reducing their hours and Prince Charles tests positive for coronavirus.
+ Nancy Southern joins Dr. Jack M. Mintz and others on Alberta's "New Avengers Economic Recovery Council". And we are going to need them because Alberta's economic decline will be the 'most severe' the province has ever seen.
4 ~ UNPRECEDENTED EVERYTHING
+ As fundraising events evaporate, hardship ensues for the non-profit sector. Will COVID-19 be the death knell for many charities?.
+ Breweries are making hand sanitizer and hockey equipment makers are re-tooling to make full-face, single-use visors for health workers.
+ Telecom networks deal with 'unprecedented' pressure as Canadians work from home and Canada's EI processing workforce ramps up to process a million EI claims.
5 ~ WAH: WORKING AT HOME
+ The house Is crowded, you need comfortable space, and you now need to be an expert in video-conferencing. Welcome to working from home. COVID-style.
+ As a fundraiser working in uncertain times, you need resources. AFP Global's: Coronavirus/COVID-19 Resource Guide has you covered. Oh, and when you need to give some advice to your board, here is Boardsource's blog: on What Nonprofit Board Members Should Be Doing Right Now to Address the COVID-19 Situation..
+ Staying health while in self-isolation is not easy. Noteworthy's Full Body Workout You Can Do Anywhere might help.
+ Harvard Business Review: That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
6 ~ STARS OF THE CORONIAL AGE
+ Chief medical officers are the the heroes of this new age. Global News: A new star is born: Canada’s chief medical officers offer clarity in age of coronavirus. Alberta's top doctor becomes overnight sensation on social media, inspiring T-shirts (Dr. Hinshaw's fan page on Facebook has over 3,500 members. Also, that periodic table dress is terrific.)
+ Country singers (Corb Lund shows us how to wash our hands), hockey players (I heart Hayley), and, even our MPs are also rising to the challenge as coronavirus leaders. (Who know that when they needed to, they could act like adults?)
7 ~ WHAT? ME? QUARANTINED? WHAT YOU TALKIN' ABOUT WILLIS?
+ A woman in Quebec defies quarantine (but not for long), Edmonton nurses refuse to work without N95 masks (I don't blame them one bit) and doctors urge caution on repurposing malaria medication to fight COVID-19
8 ~ TRANSFORMATIONS
+ Food Banks Canada launches a national $150 million fundraising campaign to address the extraordinary increase in need caused by the financial and public health crisis. Rogers and Hudson's Bay Foundation both step up.
+ Rihanna, Kraft Heinz and Target all make huge gifts to coronavirus relief. (And Target also raises pay and increases sick pay for employees. Nice work Target!)
+ COVID-19: Calgary Flames Foundation donates $1.15 million to support agencies
+ With theatres, music halls and performance venues going dark due to COVID-19, the arts and artists in Canada have been hit hard. Some help is on the way. Slaight Music donation doubles performing arts fund during coronavirus outbreak and the National Arts Centre and Facebook Canada launch $100K relief fund for Canadian artists. Much more is needed but this is a great start.
9 ~ WHERE'S WALDO?
+ Even spies have to self-isolate. Spies Working From Home: How Coronavirus Is Impacting U.S. Intelligence Networks Across the World. Have you seen the Where's Waldo cartoon coronavirus edition?)
10 ~ FAREWELL TO A FOUNDER AND TO A GAMBLER
+ We bid farewell to Shaw Communications founder, JR Shaw and to country music legend, Kenny Rogers. To the former, we are grateful for many of his gifts to us but most particularly, especially at this time, high-speed Internet. To the latter, the gambler, you live on in song. RIP to you both.
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