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by Zaki Amir A financial agreement of $2.2 trillion dollar rescue package to offset the tremendous effects of the worldwide “Pandemic” Coronavirus has passed the Senate and the House becoming the largest historical economic “Stimulus” package in American history. The measures taken by the Senate are to help a nation under “Siege” from an enemy that has killed 1,477 and infected 96,968 with 2,453 recovered as of this posting . Illinois statistics are 2,538 infected and 119 deaths. Grundy County was the first reported case of the virus and throughout the state; patients affected are under 1 year old to 99 years of age. Cook County recently had 19 victims that died. The plan is to make a one-time payment of $1,200 dollars to each individual adult and $500 dllars for each child in a family. It also is designed to increase unemployment benefits and offer a $367 billion program to help small business owners continue making their payroll contributions to their workers as they are unable to work due to the virus. Specifically speaking unemployment, the monies are for the salaries for four months and not three as initially discussed that is based on the usual amount of benefits given by that state and a new $600 dollar a week category that will help workers that are with services like “Uber”. $300 billion dollars is slated for disaster relief in the memory of other national disasters that needed immediate funding and a new “Inspector General” will be brought into oversight with a board to control corporate assistance to avoid the beleaguered relief program of 2008 that dealt with banks. $50 billion is earmarked for employee retention tax credit to keep workers on the company payroll with the ambitious goal of covering 50% of worker’s paychecks with 6.2% being deferred as payment to the Social Security payroll tax. $500 billion dollars that is to be allocated for airline and other large industries was a sore point that held up the passage of the legislation, but hospital and medical care workers on the front lines of the pandemic was what ruled the day as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asserted it when he said, “It will rush new resources onto the front lines of our nation’s health care fight. And it will inject trillions of dollars of cash into the economy as fast as possible to help Americans workers, families, small businesses and industries make it through this disruption and emerge on the other side ready to soar.” The agreement of Republicans and Democrats helped to improve a three day the stock market rally which has been up and down like a roller coaster previous to the rally. Today, Friday March 27, there was a sell-off even though the House approved the Senate bill. The Senate approval helped the Dow Jones Indusrial Average to have its best day on Wednesday, since 1933 which was during the “Great Depression”. The Bill is expected to be signed by President Trump, as soon as it gets on his desk. Part 4 will deal with the social changes of the virus. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 / Coronavirus was reported January 21st with a man returning from China,and three months later, Americans were still not taking the “Pandemic” seriously. A Harris Poll survey conducted between March 14th and March 15th of 2, 500 adults revealed that eighty-nine percent of the population was still going to coffee shops with 58% of society not changing behavioral “Social Interaction” in any way. Enter the concept of “Social Distancing” and “Shelter in Place” the “New Normal” as the virus has exploded upon the land with an increasingly higher infection rate than previously perceived. This makes it everyone’s duty as a “Citizen” to come together and fight this “Invisible” enemy that is relentless in its aggressiveness, especially to those that have pre-existing health conditions. New York City has become the epicenter of the contamination in the country. Here are the statistics on the infections and deaths for 3/24/2020 as 42, 663 in cases across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. (Bear in mind that these statistics change minute by minute.) Alabama: 196 Alaska: 22 Arizona: 235 (including two deaths) Arkansas: 197 California: 1,733 (including 32 deaths) Colorado: 591 (including six deaths) Connecticut: 415 (including 10 deaths) Delaware: 87 District of Columbia: 116 (including two deaths) Florida: 1,237 (including 18 deaths) Georgia: 800 (including 26 deaths) Guam: 27 (including one death) Hawaii: 77 Idaho: 50 Illinois: 1,285 (including 12 deaths) Indiana: 259 (including seven deaths) Iowa: 105 Kansas: 82 (including two deaths) Kentucky: 124 (including four deaths) Louisiana: 1,172 (including 34 deaths) Maine: 107 Maryland: 288 (including three deaths) Massachusetts: 777 (including nine deaths) Michigan: 1,328 (including 15 deaths) Minnesota: 235 (including one death) Mississippi: 249 (including one death) Missouri: 183 (including three deaths) Montana: 45 Nebraska: 50 Nevada: 245 (including four deaths) New Hampshire: 101 (including one death) New Jersey: 2,844 (including 27 deaths) New Mexico: 83 New York: 20,875 (including 157 deaths) North Carolina: 297 North Dakota: 30 Ohio: 442 (including six deaths) Oklahoma: 81 (including two deaths) Oregon: 191 (including five deaths) Pennsylvania: 644 (including six deaths) Puerto Rico: 31 (including two deaths) Rhode Island: 106 South Carolina: 298 (including five deaths) South Dakota: 28 (including one death) Tennessee: 615 (including two deaths) Texas: 352 (including eight deaths) US Virgin Islands: 17 Utah: 257 (including one death) Vermont: 75 (including five deaths) Virginia: 254 (including six deaths) Washington: 2,221 (including 110 deaths) West Virginia: 16 Wisconsin: 416 (including five deaths) Wyoming: 26 with 46 Repatriated infected cases from the Diamond Princess cruise ship from Japan and 21 from the Grand Princess cruise ship moored off the California Coast for three days. As part of a plan that monitors America’s commitment to respond to the increasingly fast infection rate of the virus the “15 days to Slow the Speed” Initiative was enacted by the President Trump on 3/16/ 2020 which aims to reduce the transmission of the disease. Gov. J.B. Pritzker called up 60 service members, 43 airmen from the Peoria-based 182nd Airlift Wing’s Medical Group with 17 planners and liaison officers from Army and Air National Guard respectively. He also got approval of low-interest loans of up to $2 million dollars for restaurants from the Small Business Administration and postponement of sales tax payments from the state of Illinois for restaurants that paid less than $75,000 dollars in sales tax last year without having to pay penalties. Saturday at 5 p.m. March 21, 2020 Gov. Pritzker decreed the stay at home provisions which keeps those behind in rent domiciled and restricts gatherings of more than 10 people. He stated, “We are doing all that we can to maintain as much normalcy as possible while taking the steps we must to protect our residents,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “I fully recognize that in some cases I am choosing between saving people’s lives and saving their livelihoods. But ultimately, you can’t have a livelihood without a life. This will not last forever, but it’s what we must do to support the people on the front lines of this fight, and the people most vulnerable to its consequences.” Turning to Chicago, Mayor Lightfoot formed a $ 100 million dollar fund to give low-interest loans to small businesses to help ease state unemployment claims and plans to keep the Chicago Public Schools closed until April 20th while the Governor issued a directive to close schools until the end of March. Mayor Lightfoot expressed her goals for school children by saying, “The health and safety of our children are of paramount importance. The City is finalizing a contingency plan that will meet the needs of vulnerable populations and ensure all our children are safe and engaged, but it is critical employers are flexible as parents seek childcare.” Online classes are now what most children are facing. City Hall itself is open only to workers vital to city operations and alderman to prevent further extending the virus to city residents. “More than ever before, Chicagoans will rely on us to deliver critical services and supports during this disruption, while we help navigate these uncharted waters” said the Mayor as Forty-six people at Chateau Nursing and Rehabilitation tested positive for the virus. It was 33 residents and 13 staffers with six being hospitalized and Certified nurse Tonya Davis, working at the nursing home through an agency said she’s not coming back. She claims it is overwhelmed by inadequate staffing and not enough supplies, and the mayor says it “could have happened anywhere.” Mayor Lightfoot is also being asked by petition to give relief to restaurants by foregoing zoning/permit restrictions; letting them become boutique food and beverage markets thus giving them an opportunity to maintain staff and stay afloat by paying their employees and farm suppliers. The petition boasts nearly 155,000 signatures presently and may be successfully used to offset the restaurateur’s financial problems as they are forced to limit their operations. Change.org: is where you may find the petition. In addition to assisting with hourly and salaried workers grievances about lost wages and unemployment, it addresses rent and loan reduction for employees and the opportunity to work with state liquor authorities to take out and deliver and sell beer wine and cocktails by the bottle. On the national level, the U. S. Senate has endorsed a piece of legislation that will provide financial assistance to those that are being laid off and have to be out of work due to the restrictions put in place by the federal state and county governments that is still up in the air and being debated. It will pass by all indications, but the terms are still being hammered out as Congress itself deals with some of its members becoming positive in tests for the virus. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today announced 236 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including three deaths in Cook County; two men in their 80s and a man in his 90s bringing the total to 1,285 cases in 31 counties, ages range from younger than one to 99 years of age with a a list of local health departments on the IDPH website. For all personal protective equipment (PPE) donations, email PPE.donations@illinois.gov. For health questions about COVID-19, call the hotline at 1-800-889-3931 or email dph.sick@illinois.gov. The world now is being made painfully aware of the preciousness of life with something you cannot see that has taken the attention of the world, a “Pandemic” according to experts, that will get worse before it gets better. COVID- 19/Coronavirus is presently menacing the planet causing extraordinary damage to several sectors of society. As we talk about it, we realize this is an ongoing story that will play itself out eventually, but who can say the time, and the toll it will take. 196,940,000 square miles of our living habitat is being affected by this “Virus” as we here at the North Lawndale Community News, offer this information to our readers to help educate inform and cultivate an understanding of what is happening and how it is affecting not only Chicago, Illinois, and America, but the entire globe. Reports suggest that it was a nocturnal creature that is part of a diet of “Chinese” people and a report filed by NPR, with “Ecologist” Kevin Olival established the fact that, “Bats are known for carrying some dangerous ones, particularly viruses that have the potential to kick off global outbreaks through what’s called “spillovers.” EcoHealth Alliance the nonprofit research group with Olival recognized the similarity of the current coronavirus outbreak in China where an animal virus jumped into a human about three years ago. In addition, to studying “Bats” in a Malaysian Borneo rainforest, they looked at them in caves in China. “We found evidence for, in total, from all the sampling we did in China, about 400 new strains of coronaviruses,” he further states. Everyone agrees that it was a coronavirus that cause the SARS or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2002 which impacted greatly on China. He continues by saying, “What we showed was that SARS-related viruses in these bat populations have the potential to go directly into human cells and do not need that extra mutational step [of] infecting another host.” And this current outbreak is from a SARS-related coronavirus which as researchers, they began to study those villagers in China. ecologist Hongying Li with EcoHealth Alliance, stated, “In some places you could find bats roosting in people’s homes,” adding more she said, “A lot of people reported, ‘Once a bat flew into my house and I killed it’ or ‘Bats ate the fruits in my backyard. “ Even more interesting was her comment about how some villagers go into the caves to escape the heat. Her observations are recorded thusly, “When we went to the caves for sampling, we’d usually see people’s beer bottles and water bottles,” said Li. The indication that the virus went from the nocturnal animal (Bat) directly to humans is very plausible. “The signal is there that these SARS-related viruses were jumping into people even if they weren’t causing any noticeable disease,” said Olival, the principal researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital) compared the new virus with the bat samples they’d collected. They found an extremely close match, which suggests this current outbreak may have come directly from bats. This is called a “Spillover”. New Research: Bats Harbor Hundreds Of Coronaviruses, And Spillovers Aren’t Rare February 20, 20205:15 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered NURITH AIZENMAN- National Public Radio
Dennis Michael Hood was born December 8, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois to Isaac and Corrine Hood. He was the 2nd of 6 children born to this union. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother Michael. Dennis was known by many as Hood and was raised in the ABLA community on the westside of Chicago. Dennis received his primary education at John M. Smith Elementary and graduated from Crane High School and furthered his education at Malcolm X College. Later in life he enlisted in the United States Army where he received an Honorable Discharge. Dennis worked for the Post Office, Streets of Sanitation, Sheriff Department and for the Chicago Housing Authority. For thirty years plus Dennis has been under the pinions of his mentor, U S Representative, State of Illinois, Danny K Davis. He has always been a headstrong person breaking barriers to achieve his lot in life. His biggest achievement was in 2011, and became a proud Resident Own Businessman of Hood Construction Inc. After a short term of illness; Dennis unexpectedly felled asleep in death on Monday, February 24, 2020. In 1978 Dennis met and married Ramona Graham, from this union three children was born, Terry, Mandy, and Tee. Dennis loved people, he opened his heart and doors to those of need. He was a jokester, his favorite saying was “Move around Clown.” He also possessed many talents one of which was singing, playing the piano, playwriting and acting. His favorite group he himself would mimic is the Whispers and Ron Isley. He had the privilege of singing with the legendary Stillers who wrote and sang a song during the inauguration of Congressman Danny K. Davis.
He leaves to cherish his memory: one son; Terrance Hood; two daughters, Ramanda Matthews and Tawanda Hood; three brothers Alan Hood; Isaac Hood; David (Robin) Hood; one sister, Delores Hood-Falkner (Melvin); nine grandchildren; Delontae, Brian, Tierra, Jamal, Traon, John, Keith Jr, Terrance Jr, and Keyshawn; one uncle, Robert Ivens; extended family members Beatrice Jones (mom); brothers, Dennis and Glenn Howell and sister; Rita Howell- Gill and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Of Dennis Michael Hood was born December 8, 1953 and passed away on February 24, 2020. Visitation is Wednesday March 4 from 6:00 pm to 9:00pm at Leak and Sons Funeral Home. The funeral will be on Thursday 10:00 am at Holy Family Catholic Church in St. Ignatius High School at 1080 W Roosevelt Rd. Burial will conclude at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery 20953 W Hoff Rd, Elwood, IL 60421  Former Aldermen Isaac Carothers (far left), Attorney Deidre Baumann (middle right), Entrepreneur & Educator Michelle Helen-Clark (top middle), Miss Carothers (right), and Educator Donna Moss (far right). Attorney Deidre Baumann held a Social Justice Forum at the Oak Park Library to discuss laws concerning discrimination at the workplace, marijuana, and community policing.
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