COVID-19 HELP GUIDE (INDIA)

COVID-19 HELP GUIDE (INDIA)

THE SITUATION IN INDIA

RESOURCES AND INFORMATION

SOME NGOs WHERE YOU CAN REGISTER TO DONATE OR REQUEST FOR PLASMA. IF YOU'VE RECOVERED FROM COVID, PLEASE REGISTER ON ANY OF THESE WEBSITES.

dhoond.com

needplasma.in

plasmadonor.in

plasmaline.in

pintnetwork.com

rotarybloodbankgurgaon.in

kabwelfarefoundation.org

NDTV is also running a campaign wherein you can drop them an email or WhatsApp them the requirements and prescription, and they'll help you find donors as early as possible.

feedback@ndtv.com (e-mail)

9910668811 (WhatsApp number)

WEBSITES TO CHECK AVAILABILITY OF REMDESIVIR, HOSPITAL BEDS & PLASMA

this website has state-wise emergency helpline numbers, list of resources - oxygen, beds etc.

the mumbai civic body, BMC, also has a bed availability tracker which is updated every 2 hours.

cipla is currently giving remdesivir injections directly to the hospital where a patient has been admitted in order to avoid black marketing of the medicines.

info.availability@cipla.com (e-mail)

8657311088 (helpline no.)

delhi govt.'s website to keep track of beds

city wise helpline numbers

DOCTORS WHO CAN GUIDE YOU

OXYGEN CYLINDERS

HOW TO FIND A PLASMA DONOR

OTHER IMPORTANT LINKS:

COVID RELIEF OPEN SOURCE REQUEST TRACKER

DONOR REGISTRATION LINK (DELHI)

VOLUNTEER TO HELP ORGANISE ONLINE RESOURCES

INDIA WIDE COVID RESOURCES

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

after a 6.4 earthquake in Croatia yesterday, more earthquakes keep shaking the area (4.8, 4.7 magnitude just this morning) (on top of a covid pandemic!!)

people have lost their homes, towns have been destroyed, 7 people have lost their lives 

please please help if you can, spread the word & donate if you can, please don’t ignore this because it’s a small country 

donate to the Croatian Red Cross (page in English)

Croatia state budget IBAN: HR12 1001 0051 8630 0016 0

International payments: BIC (SWIFT) code: NBHRHR2XXXX 

bank: Croatian National Bank, Trg hrvatskih velikana 3, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia 

user: Republic od Croatia - Ministry of Finance, Katanciceva 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia 

Payment information: Earthquakes aid

other resources here & here

just spreading the word helps too, keep Croatia in your thoughts 🥺🙏

Solidarity.

Onist'ot'en Camp Contact

Onist'ot'en Volunteer

Onist'ot'en Twitter

Wet'suwet'en GoFundMe

Honoring the lives lost in the Atlanta shooting

Xiaojie 'Emily' Tan, 49

Tan, 49, was the mother of Jami Webb, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia. She was a licensed massage therapist and the owner of Young’s Asian Massage, along with other businesses in the area, including another spa and a tanning salon, according to state records. She was “the sweetest, most kind-hearted, giving, never-met-a-stranger person,” a friend told Atlanta’s WSB-TV. Just one day away from her 50th birthday when she was killed, according to USA Today, Tan was described by her daughter as thoughtful, devoted to her family, and looking forward to traveling in her retirement.

Hyun Jung Grant, 51

Hyun Jung Grant was a Korean immigrant who worked at Atlanta’s Gold Spa. Her son Randy Park, 23, shared a tribute to his mother on GoFundMe: He said his mother was a single parent who “dedicated her whole life to providing for my brother and I.” She loved dancing and sushi, according to Park, who told The Daily Beast, “She wasn’t just my mother. She was my friend.” Park, who now has to raise his brother alone, is not buying law-enforcement officials’ suggestion that the attack was motivated by a supposed sex addiction, not racism. “That’s bullshit,” he said.

Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez, 33

Yaun Gonzalez, 33, was a mother of two — 13-year-old Mayson and 8-month-old Mia. She had worked all day on Tuesday at the Waffle House a few shops down from Tan’s spa business. She had been looking forward to having a relaxing night out with her husband, Mario Gonzalez, whom she married only last year, and the couple had reportedly never been to Young’s Asian Massage before. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, family members say that Mario Gonzalez, who survived the shooting, is “taking [the situation] hard.” Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez’s friends and family have set up a GoFundMe to address her funeral costs.

Paul Andre Michels, 54

Michels, 54, was a handyman at Young’s Asian Massage and the owner of an electric company. He was only recently hired for the role and excited to take it on after looking for more work during the pandemic, according to a friend who spoke with CBS46. An army veteran originally from Detroit, Michels is one of nine siblings and is survived by his wife of more than two decades. In an interview with the Guardian, his brother John Michels emphasized his kindness. “He was just a regular guy, very good-hearted, very soft-natured,” he said, while noting that Michels had expressed an interest in getting involved in the massage business.

Yong Ae Yue, 63

A licensed massage therapist, she was laid off at the start of the pandemic last year and was excited to finally start shifts at the spa again, her son Elliott Peterson, 42, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday morning. Yue’s youngest child, Robert Peterson, 38, agreed, recalling their mother as a kind and deeply caring woman. If you stopped by her house, she’d sit you down, ask if you’d eaten, and then insist on a trip to H Mart grocery store so she could make a meal.

Daoyou Feng, 44

Daoyou Feng, 44, began working at Young’s Asian Massage in recent months, according to Tan’s friend Hynson. She was kind and quiet, he said. Her relatives could not be reached for comment.

Soon Chung Park, 74

Soon Chung Park, 74, was also a worker at an Atlanta spa. Her family didn’t respond when reached for comment. Park previously lived in New York, where she has relatives, her son-in-law, Scott Lee, told the New York Times. “She got along with her family so well,” Lee told the newspaper.

Suncha Kim, 69

Suncha Kim, 69, worked at one of the spas in Atlanta. Her family could not be reached for comment. Kim, a grandmother, was married for more than 50 years, a family member told the Times. She enjoyed line dancing and worked hard, the relative said.

Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, 30

Hernandez-Ortiz, 30, was the only survivor of the victims who were shot on Tuesday, and he remains hospitalized for multiple gunshot wounds in his “forehead, throat, lungs and stomach,” according to the Washington Post. He was shot while standing outside in the shopping center where Young’s Asian Massage is located. “He came from nothing and has come a long way; that is why I have faith he will survive this,” his wife Flor Gonzalez told the Washington Post. Gonzalez has also set up a GoFundMe to help with the costs of Hernandez-Ortiz’s medical care.

Unapologetically Asian American

Content warning: Anti-Asian racism and violence, anti-Black racism and violence, xenophobia, specific examples of violence against Asian Americans, historical context of racism and anti-Asian senti…

“’Anti-racism’ is a noun but urgency requires us to treat it as a verb, I say. It means taking your awareness and turning it into action. Into doing something concrete. And then to keep doing it.”

We Need Diverse Books social media manager JoAnn Yao wrote about the Atlanta shooting, growing up Asian in Georgia, & how both solidarity and joy can be found while drawing a cartography of self. See below for our resources on how to take action, stand against anti-Asian racism, and #StopAsianHate.

CW: Mention of Atlanta shooting. Full list of warnings at beginning of essay.

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Asian Books & Authors:

Asian Author Alliance’s Kidlit Directory – “A Directory of Asian Kidlit Authors as a way to help others discover and amplify Asian voices and stories!”

KiBooka – site by author Linda Sue Park that showcases kids’ books (picture, Middle Grade, and Young Adult) and their Korean American + Korean Diaspora authors

Asian-Owned Bookstores:

Maomi Bookstore (Chamblee, GA)

Femme Fire Books (Jacksonville, FL)

Arkipelago Books (San Francisco, CA)

Bel Canto Books (Long Beach, CA)

Eastwind Books (Berkeley, CA)

Giant Robot Store (Los Angeles, CA)

A Good Used Book (Los Angeles, CA)

The Lev (Los Angeles, CA)

Philippine Expressions Bookstore (San Pedro, CA)

Kinokuniya (Various)

The Asian American Curriculum Project (San Mateo, CA) – proceeds from sales also support their nonprofit, which works to “bring a wide variety of Asian American curriculum materials to schools, libraries, and the general public.”

Atlanta-based AAPI Organizations:

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta – “the first and only nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) in Georgia and the Southeast.”

Center for Pan Asian Community Services – “Established as the first and largest Asian and Pacific Islander health and human service agency in the Southeast region, CPACS has been providing its core groups of services to immigrant and refugee families in Georgia since 1980.”

Fundraisers & Action Items:

Verified Atlanta shooting victim fundraisers

GoFundMe-organized AAPI Community Fund

Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Atlanta Fund for the victims and their families

Anti-Asian Violence Resources – includes statistics, bystander trainings, mental health resources, and more

Asian Americans, A PBS Documentary – “a five-hour film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever… Told through intimate personal stories, the series will cast a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played.”

Stop AAPI Hate – nonprofit that tracks incidents of hate and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S.

The Asian American Curriculum Project – “Our mission is to educate the public about the great diversity of the Asian American experience through book distribution, cultural awareness, and educating Asian Americans about their own heritage, thus instilling a sense of pride.”