Covid-19 – Page 19 – Columbia County Current

Columbia County Democratic Committee’s Resource Guide to Help Manage the COVID-19 Crisis

The Columbia County Democratic Committee is providing a comprehensive Resource Guide to help Columbia County residents locate services, businesses, and recreational areas for daily needs during the COVID-19 crisis.

The guide includes a list of charities and volunteer organizations that are helping our community members in need. If you are able, please consider donating money, goods, or time.

This is a partial list, which will be getting updated regularly. Please contact issues@columbiacountydemocrats.org if you are aware of other resources they should add to this list or for any updates.

To view or download the Resource Guide, click here.

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Columbia Land Conservancy Offers Free Online Activities

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CLC is working to create new virtual content offerings.

April Little Explorers: Virtual Vernal Pool Exploration!

Follow along with Heidi Bock, CLC’s Conservation Education Manager, as she explores the vernal pools at Harris Conservation Area!

Click here to listen to A Salamander’s Life by John Himmelman

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Doorstep Deliverers Serving Elderly & Immunocompromised in Eastern Columbia County & Berkshires

Doorstep Deliverers, is a group of volunteers that offer free store-to-door deliveries for elderly and immunocompromised community members during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Doorstep Deliverers, is a group of volunteers that offer free store-to-door deliveries for elderly and immunocompromised community members during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Just order and pay for your groceries from any local business that offers pickup, and a volunteer will pick up, then drop your items off at your doorstep so that you can remain safe at home.

In order to get the delivery, you will need to request a delivery from the Doorstop Deliverers website. The site has a helpful How-To page that walks you through exactly how to do everything so please check out www.doorstepdeliverers.org/request-a-delivery before you call the store.

Currently delivering to:

NY: Ancram, Austerlitz, (Old/East) Chatham, Claverack, Copake, Craryville. Hillsdale, Hudson

MA: Alford, Egremont, Great Barrington, Housatonic, Lee, Lenox, Monterey, Pittsfield, Richmond, (West) Stockbridge

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Museum of Science at Home

Looking for something to entertain and educate the kids while at home? Check out Museum of Science at Home.

Looking for something to entertain and educate the kids while at home? Check out Museum of Science at Home. Boston’s MoS is closed due to the pandemic, so they have put together a collection of STEM resources designed to bring the museum to you. Visit https://www.mos.org/mos-at-home for their daily live stream presentations.

One of the world’s largest science centers and New England’s most attended cultural institution, the Museum of Science introduces approximately 1.4M visitors a year to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), through the world-class hands-on exhibits, programs and curricula of its William and Charlotte Bloomberg Science Education Center. The Museum is home to such iconic exhibits as the Thompson Theater of Electricity, the Charles Hayden Planetarium, and the Mugar Omni Theater.

Beyond its walls, the Museum reaches tens of millions through its blockbuster traveling exhibits, The Science Behind Pixar, the world’s leading prek-8 engineering curricula, EiE®, original planetarium shows. Now, through its new #MOSatHome platform, delivering the Museum experience to families and educators online with a host of live stream events, webinars, podcasts, family STEM activities and more. http://www.mos.org/MOSatHome.

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An Update from Gov. Cuomo

An email update from the Governor:

Every county in New York State now has confirmed cases of Coronavirus. Our “New York on PAUSE” policy remains in place. Non-essential workers must stay home except for essential activities like going to the grocery store. When you’re not at home, you must practice social distancing, and we also encourage you to wear a face covering in public (but do not purchase surgical masks — we must reserve those for healthcare workers and first responders). These are extraordinary times, and it will take all of us working together to beat this vicious virus.

Tragically, we continue to lose New Yorkers to this invisible enemy. More than four thousand of our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and neighbors have died after contracting COVID-19. Each and every one of them is in our hearts. We must continue to socially distance to prevent the virus from spreading and taking more lives.

Here are some other important updates:

New York launched a new COVID-19 tracker, with detailed county-by-county information on confirmed cases. The website is updated daily with the latest data.
Thousands of therapists have signed up to offer free emotional support to New Yorkers who are struggling with the mental health impact of this pandemic. Call the state’s hotline at 1-844-863-9314 to get free emotional support, consultations and referrals to a provider.
More than 85,000 volunteers from New York and across the country have answered our call to join New York’s surge healthcare force. We are awed by the heroism and selflessness of these volunteers. If you are interested in joining, enlist here.
NYS has a message for victims of domestic violence during this stressful time: You Are Not Alone. If you are in a dangerous domestic situation, NYS will help you find safe shelter. You are not trapped just because of Coronavirus. Call 1-800-942-6906.

Sign up for nightly emails with the facts you should know about the novel coronavirus pandemic.

I wish I could promise you that this period will be over soon. I can’t. What I can promise you is that I will continue to share the facts with New Yorkers and I will make decisions based on all the available science and data with one goal in mind: save lives. I know that this is a painful, disorienting experience. It’s important to remember that we will get through this. Now we must do what’s necessary to win this battle.

Ever Upward,

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo