Good on these folks!

 A friend recently joked that FB was created to share cute cat videos and photos and there's a certain amount of truth in that but there are other ways to use FB and I'm quite interested in this group in Vancouver that began with a couple of friends wanting to help people.

It's called Covid 19 Coming Together (Vancouver)

The idea is to bring together people who need things and people who can help get them. It's almost gone viral in just a couple of days.

PLEASE SEE ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR HOW TO USE THIS GROUP AND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES AND EXPECTATIONS. COVID-19 is creating unprecedented interruptions to our day-to-day lives and poses a threat to many of our community members. We, as members of society, have a choice as to how we navigate our way forward. We can choose fear and division and toilet paper hoarding. OR we can choose to connect to share resources, support each other, show solidarity for healthcare workers and the vulnerable, build community, and amplify social movements fighting for critical access to healthcare, housing, and workers’ rights. We choose the latter. Practicing physical separation does not need to mean being isolated from each other. This is a group created by community members for all of us in the Greater Vancouver area to come together, connect, and support each other in this critical time. Let’s show up for each other in a big way, Vancouver!

This was posted Mar. 14:

Group update, call out for help, and reminder of group guidelines:

WOW! On behalf of the organizing team, we are blown away by the level of response to this group. We came together spontaneously yesterday after seeing the need to create a platform such as this, launched at 1am with no promo other than adding friends, and it has been snowballing ever since. YOU, the people of Vancouver and the surrounding area, have been keeping our hearts bursting ever since!

A couple of things the Admin team wanted to highlight:

1. We are accessible to folks who don't have Facebook! We encourage people to post on behalf on others, and also offer ourselves to post for Seniors and others who don't have Facebook. Please get the word out to just email us at covid19comingtogether@gmail.com

We recognize that this is still not accessible to people who don't have regular internet access, and are expanding our capacity to do more safe outreach.