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Resilience: Mitigating Risk During State Re-Openings
From the Document: "As states begin to relax the restrictions on meetings and movement they imposed to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, it is vital that communities of faith play a leadership role in preventing the unnecessary spread of disease and death within their communities and among their neighbors. The resumption of more traditional forms of worship will be a cause for celebration, but only if it is accomplished responsibly, with due consideration for the most informed guidance for preserving the health and well being of worshippers and their neighbors alike. As of April 28, 2020, a number of states have begun to reopen, or plan to, in the coming days. While this is not the recommended guidance by many health care experts, following the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) suggestions will be critical to prevent mass exposure and increased COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] infections. As we endure as one nation, let us be reminded that our actions directly impact life and death for all our friends and neighbors."
Rutgers University. Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience
Clark, Ronald J.; Kula, Shannon M.
2020-05-07
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Plan, Respond, Mitigate: Get Your Community Faith-Based Organizations Ready for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
From the Introduction: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], popularly known as the novel coronavirus, poses unique challenges for community and faith-based organizations (CFBOs). Such organizations, which tend to feature mass gatherings, and whose membership typically includes large numbers of elderly people, are threatened in both mission and message by the epidemic, which can be contained only by curtailing mass meetings and isolating the ill and exposed, particularly the elderly. Such social distancing and isolation can compromise the spiritual and civic missions of community and faith-based organizations, but the price of containment need not be despair. It is imperative that the leadership of such organizations, which play such an essential role in providing comfort to community members in times of pain and uncertainty, find ways to fulfill their missions without jeopardizing the health of the afflicted, the other members of the organizations or the leaders themselves. This Miller Center Interim Guidance offers a suggested approach to these issues based on our experience in working with community and faith-based organizations in other contexts, and in managing emergencies of various kinds. The scope of this international public health emergency, which has been determined by the World Health [O]rganization to be a pandemic, may be unprecedented; we are confident, however, that its exigencies can be addressed without abandoning the civic and pastoral missions of so many organizations founded on community and faith."
Rutgers University. Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience
Farmer, John J.
2020-03-13
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Resilience: During the High Holy Days of April & May
From the Document: "As three of the world's major religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - prepare to observe their High Holy Days in the next few weeks, people all over the world are suffering and dying alone. Families are saying their goodbyes, and clergy administering last rites, via Facetime. Living rooms where neighbors and friends would normally drop by to offer comfort sit empty. Memorial services are postponed, or canceled completely. Never has the comfort offered by a community of shared beliefs been more needed, but rarely has it been more difficult to achieve, than in the current COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] crisis. Perhaps for this reason, accounts have been multiplying of religious gatherings in defiance of stay at home and social distancing orders. [...] These gatherings can prove disastrous from a public health perspective, affording the virus opportunities to spread, and proving lethal to some of those who attend or to people they contact. At the same time, practitioners of all faiths are adapting their rituals to the harsh new reality, and rediscovering the depth of the message their faith holds for times like these. The Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York is being converted for use as a hospital. Family seders are being planned over Webex, Zoom, Facetime or Skype. Good Friday and Easter services are being livestreamed, or broadcast over television."
Rutgers University. Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience
Clark, Ronald J.; Kula, Shannon M.
2020-04-08
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Resilience: Engaging Partners & Leveraging Resources for Faith Based Organizations & Vulnerable Communities
From the Document: "By all accounts, we must anticipate several more weeks and even months ahead before we see a flattening of the curve across the country. As your community continues to isolate, engaging partners and leveraging resources for your community will be essential. It will keep your community strong in spirit, mind and body." The document proceeds to provide government resources and information, financial resources, reliable sources for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic updates, along with helpful resources for online schooling and recreation.
Rutgers University. Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience
Clark, Ronald J.; Kula, Shannon M.
2020?
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Part VI: RESILIENCE: The Need for Universal Personal Protective Equipment
From the Document: "As states continue to reopen, or plan to initiate follow-on phases in the coming days, we must remain vigilant. The total number of infectious cases in the United States is over 1,700,000 and over 100,000 Americans have passed away due to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. The infection trends in 18 states are rising and experts are increasingly less optimistic that seasonal changes will dramatically bend the curve on its own. However, wearing a mask will bend the curve, protect you, your family and community. When outside your home, the research is overwhelming that Personal Protective Equipment, namely masks, will protect you and others (see attached report). The attached study asserts that if 80% of the population wear masks consistently, we can dramatically degrade the arc of this pandemic. When you dial this up to 90% or 100% of citizens wearing masks, the positive reduction in the infection rate is even more dramatic (see chart below). However, when only 50% of the population wear masks, this rapid disruption does not occur. As we endure as one nation, let us be reminded that our actions directly impact all our brothers and sisters."
Rutgers University. Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience
Clark, Ronald J.; Kula, Shannon M.
2020-06-01
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RESILIENCE: For Faith-Based Organizations Weathering the COVID-19 Storm / The Mission Continues
From the Document: "This guidance follows the Miller Center's initial Interim Guidance, issued on March 13, 2020, which outlined best practices for communities of faith to employ in managing the unprecedented pandemic the world is now facing as a consequence of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. Although there have been relatively isolated instances of faith communities gathering despite the teachings of science and the commands of governmental authorities, for the most part faith communities have been adapting imaginatively to our new normal, providing a sense of comfort, continuity and community in the face of escalating measures and uncertain prescriptions for managing the pandemic."
Rutgers University. Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience
Clark, Ronald J.; Kula, Shannon M.
2020-03-25
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COVID-19, Conspiracy and Contagious Sedition: A Case Study on the Militia-Sphere
From the Foreword: "Following on the heels of a state-by-state lockdown of social and economic activity put in place to attempt to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, we stand in the midst of historical nationwide violence and riots over the George Floyd incident. Together, these events cause social dislocation on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. Not surprisingly in such an environment, fear of disease, fear of law enforcement, and fear of violence are compounded by social isolation and widespread unemployment. It is not surprising, in this season of discontent, that many Americans have grown frustrated with the restrictions on their freedoms, and angry at the repeated confrontations involving law enforcement. Many have exercised their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly to express their anger in a peaceful manner."
Network Contagion Research Institute; Rutgers University. Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience
Finkelstein, Joel; Donohue, John K.; Goldenberg, Alex . . .
2020?
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