[Durham INC] Durham's InterNeighborhood Council Resolution in Support of Durham's Covid-19 Response

[Will Wilson]

Durham's InterNeighborhood Council Resolution in
Support of Durham's Covid-19 Response

WHEREAS, Durham’s first confirmed Coronavirus case was tested on Monday, 
March 9, 2020;

WHEREAS, as of Tuesday, June 23, 2020, Durham had endured 60 fatalities 
and 3,209 confirmed infections;

WHEREAS, Durham first responders started off with inadequate equipment 
and nonetheless provided care from the first confirmed infection and 
continue to provide care;

WHEREAS, Durham “Stay at Home” orders, which have been more restrictive 
and of greater duration than state Stay at Home orders, have provided a 
framework for mitigating fatalities, hospitalizations, outcomes, and 
infection rates;

WHEREAS, Durham resident adherence to Durham stay at home orders has 
provided true mitigation of fatalities, hospitalizations, outcomes, and 
infection rates;

WHEREAS, the Durham stay at home orders and adherence to them have had 
devastating short term impacts on the local economy, people’s social and 
mental health, and our community fabric;

WHEREAS, in addition to working alongside medical teams and first 
responders to help curb the pandemic, Durham residents, businesses, 
nonprofits, institutions, and other stakeholders have worked to help 
fellow residents in ways large and small;

WHEREAS, Studies of the 1918 flu pandemic indicate that curbing the 
spread of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic with quarantines, school closings, 
and social distancing lowers mortality rates and helps strengthen an 
economic recovery;

WHEREAS, while Durham data is incomplete, data provides no reason to 
believe that Durham has not followed US national trends where 
populations vulnerable by health, race, age, income, wealth and 
political representation have been disproportionately impacted by 
Coronavirus with respect to health and economic impacts;

WHEREAS, while Durham data is incomplete, data largely confirms that 
Durham is following US national trends where populations vulnerable by 
health, race, age, income, wealth and political representation have been 
disproportionately impacted by COVID-19; and

WHEREAS, at state and local level stay at home orders are relaxed and 
tightened based on the interplay between data, science, and adverse 
impacts on the local economy, people’s social and mental health, and our 
community fabric;

NOW, THEREFORE, THE INTERNEIGHBRHOOD COUNCIL OF DURHAM HEREBY:

1. Thanks elected officials, the city and county administrations, 
medical teams, first responders of all types, businesses, and fellow 
residents for curbing COVID-19 at least on a temporary basis through 
issuance of and adherence to stay at home orders;

2. Thanks Durham residents, businesses, and nonprofits that worked to 
help fellow residents in other ways large and small, and special mention 
is made of:
a. Individual, networked and tightly grouped collectives of mask makers, 
including https://www.coveringthetriangle.com/ and others too many to 
mention;
b. Providers of food to those in need, including the Durham branch of 
https://foodbankcenc.org/about-us/locations-contact-info/durham/, 
https://www.umdurham.org/, and https://communitiesinpartnership.org/ and 
others too many to mention;
c. Those who have offered counseling and healing through prayer, time 
well spent in community, and other modalities – while maintaining social 
distance protocols and adhering to stay at home orders;
d. Housing providers and those who work with the homeless and housing 
vulnerable, including https://fmfnc.org/, 
https://communitiesinpartnership.org/, and https://www.umdurham.org/; and
e. Low and no interest loan providers including (and grant makers) 
including 
https://community.duke.edu/give/?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Duke-Durham+Fund&utm_content=1185113&utm_campaign=FY20:+Duke+Student+Assistance+Fund-VPrice-1 
;

3. Urges Durham residents to consider the above-listed groups for 
volunteer and giving opportunities;

4. Calls on elected officials and the city and county administrations to 
work with other institutional stakeholders to increase testing, with 
special emphasis on medical team members, first responders, and 
historically vulnerable populations;

5. Urges elected officials and the city and county administrations to 
work with other institutional stakeholders to prepare in case 
pessimistic scenarios around a second peak and mutation prove accurate;

6. Urges its fellow residents to adhere to stay at home orders as then 
in effect and to maintain social distancing;

7. Urges residents to take flu and other vaccines, this year and every 
year, whether for COVID-19 or flu strains;

8. Urges Durham residents, businesses, nonprofits, institutions, and 
other stakeholders to continue to help fellow residents in other ways 
large and small and toward that end shares with the community;

9. Urges Durham to help disproportionately vulnerable residents receive 
otherwise disproportionate contributions of financial and other resources;

10. Mourns all Durham residents who have died from the COVID-19 and to 
acknowledge the hurts of families exposed to the health, economic and 
social devastation of the pandemic in all its forms; and

11. Commits to make use of InterNeighborhood resources to stay current 
on coronavirus stay at home orders and to publish the orders and 
official and unofficial information about the Coronavirus on its website 
and listservs from time-to-time, and toward that end, makes the 
following available:
a. Current stay at home order summary 
https://www.dconc.gov/Home/Components/News/News/7777 and text 
https://www.dconc.gov/Home/ShowDocument?id=32042
b. Durham County Health Services coronavirus page 
https://www.dcopublichealth.org/services/communicable-diseases/communicable-diseases/coronavirus-disease-2020/-fsiteid-3
c. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service safety guidance 
for individuals and families 
https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/information/individuals-families-communities/individuals-and-families
d. Community resource guides found at 
http://tinyurl.com/ducovid19resources and 
https://sites.duke.edu/covidcommunityresources/category/donate/

THIS INC RESOLUTION PASSED ON THE _______23rd________ DAY OF ____June___ 
2020.

CERTIFIED:

By:  _______Will Wilson______
Position:  ____President, INC______
Date of certification:  ____6/28/20______



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