The Queen’s Inspirational Message About Defeating COVID-19; Amazing Landlord Waives Rent for 200 Tenants; and How Wearing a Mask Can Help Defeat Coronavirus.
In a rare speech, the Queen offered an inspirational message. She thanked people for staying home and “coming together to help others.”
She is hopeful that in the future, everyone will “be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.”
“This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavor, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us,” said Queen Elizabeth.
“We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.”
This is only the fifth time the Queen has given such a speech in her entire 68-year reign.
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A landlord in New York is doing what he can to help his 200 tenants. For the month of April, Mario Salerno is waiving the rent for the 80 apartments he owns across Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
He took action after some tenants worried they wouldn’t be able to pay rent as a result of the coronavirus.
On March 30, his tenants found a notice posted on their building that announced, “Due to the recent pandemic of Coronavirus COVID-19 affecting all of us, please note I am waiving rent for the month of April.”
Salerno knows he’ll lose a lot of money during this month, but he’s far more concerned about his tenants.
“For me, it was more important for people’s health and worrying about who could put food on whose table,” he said to NBC New York. “I say don’t worry about paying me, worry about your neighbor and worry about your family.”
He is hopeful that his actions will cause other landlords to consider doing the same.
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A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that COVID-19 contaminated air might travel up to four times further than the 6 feet that the CDC recommends we distance ourselves.
The study’s author, Lydia Bourouiba, says, “There is no virtual wall at this 3-6 feet distance.”
Those most at risk include medical workers who work in close proximity to patients. It isn’t a matter of 5g cellular devices.
The good news is that homemade face masks, while not perfect, can at least help reduce contamination from air droplets.
“It is important, therefore, to understand that such masks are not necessarily protective for the wearer in terms of preventing inhalation of the residual droplets in the air, which enter from the sides unfiltered,” said Bourouiba, “but they can provide a way to reduce the range of contamination from the droplets-laden cloud.”
Bourouiba did offer a warning about allergy season starting. She said it can cause asymptomatic carriers to spread COVID-19 through the air by sneezing and coughing.
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