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Hey there! Let us know how someone has helped you during the pandemic or how you’ve been able to help someone else. (Patreon)

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2020-05-21 14:57:00
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Condor

I help the boy down my street open up his Space Inventory. He hasn't been the same since...

Matt Helton

My wife and I are first-time parents. Our child was born 5-months, today, actually (12/21). We never could have envisioned a pandemic right around the time of our child's birth, yet alone the severe mental stress such a thing would induce, even when not directly affected by the disease, itself. The first 2-3 weeks were terrible. We were both tasked by our employment to work from home and it was right around the 3-month mark, when our son was just starting to figure out his head, neck, hands, and mouth. He stopped sleeping as well and it felt like we were trying to balance work, life, and him while surfing. Thankfully, both of my wife's parents retired the year before so, after we maintained our 2-3 week quarantine, they agreed to help take care of our son Monday-Thursday, leaving us to fend for ourselves on Friday and the weekend. That took a huge weight off our shoulders. While the world is basically falling apart around us, our in-laws have been helping us care for our child while getting work done. I am forever grateful for their help!

Angela Bullock

I'm immunocompromised so my family really only goes shopping once a week to limit exposure. A couple times we've needed something before then and my friend who's still working picked it up and dropped it off at my house for me!

Izit Spooky

Me and my workmates have been keeping each other sane by doing nightly quizzes. They've been progressively getting sillier and it gives us something to do/look forward to. One of the highlights last night was a name that tune with lullaby versions of songs.

Nate Platt

It's a small thing, but I donate platelets just about every other week. I don't know who the people are that I'm helping, but there's a need for blood products and blood drives aren't really happening right now.

Jay G

When this was ramping up in March, I couldn't find toilet paper to save my life. A friend of mine knew someone that had an extra pack and picked it up from them and dropped it off at my house. I'm still so appreciative because I'm still using that pack and still haven't seen any in stores since before stay at home.

Patrick Sullivan

When the schools in my city closed, a group of people largely affiliated with an "urban farmstead" started a nonprofit/project to provide free lunches to children. They are located down in the poorest part of town and distribute meals there. I have a compromised immune system, so I do not volunteer, but I have been making a weekly donation to the project. I value that they have stepped in to provide for those families that relied on school lunches. Also, as someone who has been able to work from home and has not been laid off or anything, I donated my "relief check" to the COVID relief fund of a trusted and established local charity. I'm glad that the $1200 from the CARES act didn't require means testing, as that would prevent plenty of people who need the money from getting it and even more from getting that money in a "timely" fashion. But I, myself, do not need it. Doing my part to put that money to the purpose it was intended.

Jesso Ossej

A retired hairdresser gave me her set of clippers so I could buzz down my undercut. I'm 100% sure I made a mess of it since I've never used hair clippers before, but since it's hidden by the rest of my hair, it's no big deal. Later when I found paper towels available, I bought a pack and dropped it by her door since they couldn't find any at their stores. For my birthday last week, I ordered from my favorite local restaurants for lunch & dinner, both little individually-owned joints, and tipped the drivers $10. The guy at the shop where I got my oil changed (and brake flush and new battery...) gave me a 5% discount for my birthday, and I stopped at Sonic for a drink on the way home and told the carhop I had a present for her since it was my birthday, and tipped her $10. She was wearing a mask but I could still tell her smile was very bright. It was really lovely to be able to surprise random people that way, and by the reactions from the drivers & the carhop I could tell they appreciated someone being kind to them as human beings instead of just worker bees. I can't quite afford to do that every day, but I will be doing it again.

Sarah Krzywicki

This is long, but seriously I am SO GLAD I was able to do this. So a little backstory: my sister and I were not close at all growing up, partly because she's 4 years older, and in larger part because of our mom. Fast forward through different terrible, stupid, abusive, and traumatizing relationships/situations. My current amazing boyfriend and I moved her out of our parents' house and into ours right before Safer At Home started in Maryland. This girl has been through so much and has so many diagnosed immune issues, plus medicated OCD. I was so happy to finally welcome her into my home. She has 3 cats who all had to be confined to one tiny room at our parents house, she wasn't allowed to keep shower things in the bathroom, you name it. She was fighting through Hypersomnia to do UberEats so she could pay her phone bill to keep doing that so she could feed her cats and get cat litter. Anyway, obviously I can't tell you a decades-long story in one patreon comment, but she is one of my best friends, and I love her so much, and she deserves the world, so this feels like the least I could do for her. I love you guys, by the way! Thanks for all that you do!

Crow Birb

I was put on a low sodium diet recently which means I have even less food to choose from. I asked my friends to take pictures of their sodium laden meals to live vicariously through them and they have been coming in clutch with pics and snap videos to remind me what I'm working towards: low enough blood pressure to be let back into the salt. Of course, they also been sending me low sodium recommendations but those don't have the immediate gratification of watching my friends salt-bae their pasta in their pajamas.

James Dominguez

I'm one of the organisers of the bisexual community in Melbourne, Australia. Being in lockdown greatly limited the support activities we normally do, such as our monthly peer support and discussion group, so we put our heads together to find ways to keep our community connected and not feeling so alone. Every week or two I'm running an online Jackbox game, giving people in isolation a chance to socialise, have a bit of fun, and let off steam. The bi community has pretty bad outcomes on indicators around mental health (more depression, suicidality, etc.) so staying in touch and making sure they know we're still here for them has been vital.

Matt Pierce

My in-laws and we have started touching base before grocery runs to see if the other needs anything that way we don't have to go back to the grocery store for something we forgot or couldn't find. Thanks to that, both households have been able to cut back on grocery runs (and potential exposure) to about once a month.

Alexandre Medeiros

I've had quite a few intense depressive episodes, my best friend has been talking me through them, just like I've done to him when he had his own a few years ago. on one of the worst ones, he came running from his home (~10 minute walk) and stayed with me through a few days, and also talked with other of our friends so they'd help support me through this (one of these friends sent me homemade cookies she bought to deliver for me) ❤️

BlueLew92

I've sent money to a friend in Connecticut that is currently unemployed and some of her friends. Not a whole lot but whatever they needed for groceries. I am an essential worker/engineer working for a company for the government. So I am more blessed than many that I can help out. My girlfriend helped me out by cutting my hair. Her first time ever cutting hair and the result was pretty good! She was dang nervous about it haha more than I was! We used an electric razor I have.

Alexander Moore

I have been lucky enough that my job was already 100% work from home, and my wife and I do cold care at home for our baby. Not much has changed with our day to day. In the how we've helped others portion I do a lot more impulse donations. Local food banks, classical radio, face masks, PBS, and YouTube charity drives. I just want to see these charities catch up to the "quibi" generation. When I can easily click a PayPal button to donate and move on I will. But I don't want to fill out some big form, write a heart felt message, then manually put in a routing number. Also if I click one time donation don't flood my inbox with guilt email.

Jordan Gaither

My sister's house burned down in the middle of the first couple of weeks of lockdown, and my two sweet young nephews lost all their toys and clothes and everything. We don't have much, but my wife and I were able to send the boys a few things quickly through Amazon.

Ambariffic

My best friend was supremely helpful in the last few weeks. My birthday was 5/9, and we had a plan where she was going to spend time with me. On 5/7, I found out Oscar, one of my cats that I've had for 14 years, had cancer, and would need to be euthanized imminently. I live alone, and my cats (who were a bonded pair) are what have kept me from feeling completely alone and lonely, so I was wrecked. My bestie ended up staying with me for the next few days and helping me get things done when I was too sad to do anything other than hold my sweet little guy. When I made the decision to end his suffering (on 5/12), my friend found a service that would come to the home and do what needed to be done. I was so sad that I probably couldn't have handled the call. A few days after that, someone broke into my car here at home (luckily they only got a baggy of change, though I still had to pay $400 to repair the window), and she offered to come be there with me. She's a great friend.

Andrew Stammworthy

I've spent most days reading as much of the documentation around the CARES Act and PPP and EIDL programs as possible. Mostly for my wife's business but also helping some friends and family navigate the red tape as best I can.

Dragon Turtle

Mainly just talking to my friends when they're freaking out.

Mez Love

Even though I don’t know when I’ll be able to work again, my partner and I are in ok shape. We have a lot of friends in the service industry with really uncertain futures. San Francisco is really expensive, and most people around us live paycheck to paycheck. I’ve had a few friends send me money to help these people out. It’s not my money, but I’m humbled to be trusted to help others. I’ve been able to buy groceries, dog food, pay phone bills, and even just a few beers for people having a tough go. As bleak as everything is, I love my community and am overwhelmed by the generosity of my friends.

Liz Capik

My family is very fortunate to be in a pretty great community. A lot of what we've done is normal neighborly stuff - my husband grew out a ton of tomato seedlings and gave them to our neighbors and a local school with a community garden. Some of those neighbors gave us yeast and flour, and one will provide us with some fresh veggies all growing season. And since I work with yarn (I own a business dyeing yarn) I was able to offer yarn for free to any neighbors who needed something to occupy them during all this. I was also able to run a fundraiser through my business that raised over $1200 for Feeding America and CERF+. Feeling even slightly useful has been tremendously good for my sense of wellbeing through all this.

mathdemigod

It's a really small thing, but some of the teachers at my school got together (in a totally socially distant manner) and put together care packages with brownies and roses for all of the juniors and seniors at our school that didn't get to go to prom because of the pandemic. I spent a good 4 hours in the pouring rain going from apartment to apartment dropping off these packages and exchanging a few words of support with the students. I know it's not a big deal, especially compared to the other amazing responses you have here, but it's always nice when a school demonstrates that they actually care about students' life experiences and not just their test scores.

Julio Pintos

I've been 3d printing face shields to give to health workers here in Spain, I was printing and building them for the first 3 weeks almost non-stop. We built a great community of markers. Stopped printing once the state government removed the approval they temporary gave us to build them. They gave no reason at all, was quite demotivating.

Julie Scott

It took me almost a month to get my unemployment money after I was laid off, but my best friend sent me gift cards for supplies and my parents gave me the equivalent of a weeks salary to help me get by and several friends purchased the face mask extenders "ear savers" I've been making or shared my art pieces for sale. It helped not just in funds, but also if giving me a sense of connection and purpose during a very stressful time.

Maribeth Buczacki

It's absolutely a minimalist, creature comforts thing, especially compared to other stories, but I have been making ear savers for first responders and stepping up my crafting for charity game. I have crocheted and embroidered for years as a form of stress relief. I wasn't able to make masks, but I was able to make simple bands with cotton yarn and plastic buttons that people can hook the ear loops onto so the stress of the masks are on the band on the back of the head and not on the wearer's ears. I've donated a bunch to various people -- first responders/essential workers known by people in my social circle and various places accepting such donations in my area. I also crochet for various charities throughout a non-pandemic year. I was unfortunately furloughed a month in (we're ok!), so my daily tv binges have included a lot of crocheting for the charity Warm Up! America, which donates handmade blankets to hospitals, homeless shelters, assisted living facilities, and various other disasters that displace people who are in need of comfort. In the overall response to the pandemic my efforts are both absolutely self-serving and minimal contributions. I know I am absolutely privlleged to not need to worry about my mortgage or where lunch is going to come from. I also hope by making just one person's life a tiny bit less shitty, I can help tip the scales and make this NOT feel like The Absolute Darkest Timeline.

Ali Bushell

I'm a therapist based in the UK. I had to go pretty much overnight to a full virtual practice with my clients following the government's actions to lockdown the country in March. I went from having one virtual client to having all of them be virtual. Ask any therapist and they will tell you that virtual is harder, you lose a lot and the connection quality can really impede the work. I was having to work a lot harder at a time when all of us were going through a gigantic psychological trauma together. I'm extremely glad that my clients were able to keep going with me and that I could support them, even though a few of them went into a therapeutic holding pattern as they found it difficult to process their material virtually. Handling that and holding onto other people's pain has been made that much harder for me given that I have virtually no self care routine right now. I can't work out, I can't see my friends, I can't get the hugs I so badly need, I can't have sex or intimacy with others and I feel like a prisoner in my own home. Again, I'm glad that I've been able to be there for others, and I know for many it's made a real difference to their wellbeing. I just wish that as the one helping there had been more there to help me.

Mark Stephan

There's this guy... his name is Cody I think? He tends to rant a lot but it keeps me grounded like I'm not the only one screaming into my pillow...

Liam Sunde

Hello, I live in Madison, WI and I'm part of a county-wide neighbor's helping neighbors group that's been good for connecting individuals and mutual aid groups to help get people whatever it is they need. I've been posting for people to contact me directly if they need any groceries and I've been shopping for and delivering those groceries personally and out of pocket. The local mutual aid groups do an awesome job, but we are in a big enough city that some individuals and families who have immediate needs aren't getting what they need quickly enough, or they can't make it to the local food pantry, or they are under a presumed case quarentine and can't leave the house, etc. So, I just try to fill those gaps as best I can. I've been recruiting my roommates to help me sort and bag supplies and then to make curbside deliveries and porch drop-offs with me. It's a great and rewarding way to get out and help while trying to safely adhere to the quarentine measures. Someone in this FB group also posted about open positions with GE healthcare, where I have since been hired to help build ventilator engines on 3rd shift.

Mary Imgrund

I live in the single largest apartment building in DC and I've joined a group of tenants organizing a possible rent strike and setting up a mutual aid network. I just moved here right before the shit hit the fan and live alone so I don't really know anyone, as I've been staying in my apartment all day. But, we've been able to get some media attention, and even just the act of having a chat where we can support each other I think really helps, especially for our undocumented and non-English speaking tenants who've been particularly targeted by management... It's really bad out here; our building is where the first person in DC who died of COVID lived and there's no way of telling how many people are sick since management has been really secretive about that information, but I'm trying to do at least something. I'm giving zines out about mutual aid to my neighbors and trying to get a list of people's needs with a few others.

Aaron White

I'm a university instructor in the SF bay area; since March I feel like I've been doing double duty teaching physics and also being a councilor for my students. They've taken so much of the brunt of this whole thing. Nearly all of them work service jobs, so either they're out of work and can't afford the (already crazy high) cost of living in the city, or they're being forced to put themselves at risk as essential workers. One of my students is a nurse; she's administering COVID tests and get's harassed by her patients telling her she's doing their tests wrong when they come back positive, or blaming her for infecting them. Other students are working at grocery stores and cafes with insufficient protection and are constantly forced to choose between putting themselves and their families at risk of getting sick, or being unable to afford their rent or food. They're doing all of this, while at the same time trying to keep up with their schoolwork while we switch to doing everything over zoom. A student emailed to say he wouldn't be able to continue participating in class because he and his girlfriend could barely pay their rent, and couldn't continue to afford their internet and phone bills. That was over a month ago. I've been setting aside time in class to listen to what they're going through and doing whatever I can to support them. Letting them share their stories and their struggles and concerns. I don't know how much I'm helping, but I feel like I've got to do whatever I can to get them through. They're so screwed in all of this. They've got no savings, no prospects for jobs or stability at all. The university kicked almost everyone off of campus and just assumed they could pack up everything and move back in with their parents. Many of them couldn't. At the same time as all of that, I still owe them some sort of meaningful education. Trying to figure out how to be as considerate and flexible as I can be while still trying to accomplish something education-wise has been like walking on razor wire. I've also been having a real hard time of it; I live by myself and don't have any real family contact, I haven't had physical contact with another person since February. Interacting with my students has been equal parts heartbreaking and heart-filling, which I guess is the perfect paradox to represent this broken world we're all trying to figure out how to navigate.

Anthony

A great thing I’ve been doing is using a local tip jar google doc to send those on the list (service workers verified by other service workers) a tip over Venmo.

Senor Searches

I hope its not too late to get this in. For the last 2.5 months I've been doing grocery, pharmacy, trash, and post office runs for people. It started with the vulnerable populations but has increased to anyone who is scared to go out. I have spent 10+ hours each week in the grocery stores

StephanieLee

One of my coworkers spent her Easter weekend delivering us her hand-sewn masks. I don't even work in the same city as her but we share a department (we're non-clinical employees of a large health system). As a new transplant to a state where I have no family and few friends, it's meant so much to me to have coworkers who care deeply about each other. I think one thing I try to do, that we all can, is to be kind and generous. Thank the grocery store worker who has to sanitize every single cart. Tell the health care worker who takes your temperature to have a good weekend. Tip, tip, tip! We're all going through this bullshit together, no need to be shitty to each other.

Jacob Keller

I've helped a friend by regularly bringing them groceries, because they don't have transportation and cant risk going out as easily.

Rebecca Schulz

My therapist has been immensely helpful. The company she used to work through didn't use virtual therapy & insisted that clients keep coming in person, so she left & we've been doing phone sessions. Since she is no longer on insurance she's letting me pay what I can.

Tommy Donuts

I live alone in a little house since just before the Quar, but the past few months have been anything but lonely on account of two sets of absolutely wonderful neighbors. On one side is my cousin and his wife, who just had a baby 4 months ago. On the other is a couple with a three-year-old daughter (“C”) who is cute as can be. All of us have gotten in the habit of putting blankets and chairs out in the evenings and chatting lawn-to-lawn while C rides her little scooter up and down the sidewalk, stopping every once in a while to demand I close my eyes so she can “hide” (she just runs behind the big tree in their yard, but she cracks up every time). It brightens my day every time I see them, and now we’re talking about starting a little neighborhood band!

Geoff Kramer

While I haven't had any significant events insofar, one thing that I do is keep a small bottle of hand sanitizer on my key chain. Whenever I need to head out for an essential trip, I always make it a point to offer hand sanitizer to everyone who comes within talking distance. "Excuse me, would you like some hand sanitizer?" I'd say about 20%-30% of the people to whom I make the offer take me up on it. So while it's not much, every little bit helps. :)

Nate

Where I work, I'm one of the "emergency essential" employees, so I'm typically in/out of work most days. With the rest of unit members at "minimum essential manning - minus" we are shooting for 5-10% of the command heading in every day... So no real impacts to me, but... A lot of the others are/were trapped at home. At least the responsible types that follow orders... In the community at large - where I am everyone else has appeared to have made this into a long term vacation from work... So, everyone seems to be out and about like it's some kind of fricken long holiday weekend. Fortunately the cases here are limited... We'll see though. For my part, considering I'm out in the world anyway, I've tried to help others that can't go out by doing things for them they need to get done and help them avoid the risks of contracting SARS-CoV-2, especially someone that's got family at home that's "at risk." I also found out that you can buy hospital and first responders a pizza from Little Caesars... So I do that now... As for people helping me out? I think all I really want is what I get from the people I DON'T see: the people that take this seriously and have stayed home - or do venture out but wear a mask and keep their distance. They are not going to be making me sick and I really appreciate it - especially when the community here views this disease as some kind of conspiracy...