As a society we remain busy, much of it related to the COVID-19 we face today and for the short-term future. Many persons are in slow-down mode and staying inside. Various posts help keep us connected and social isolation is a misnomer. We have ways to connect: Telephone, text, letter, online procedures, talking to neighbors, at least six feet away, of course.
We remain a busy society, just not frantic or filled with as many obligations. Busy? For example, because of COVID-19, Hesed House in Aurora, the State’s second largest homeless shelter, received financial support from the State government to move out of the shelter in Aurora (see page 1) for two weeks. Several of the 200 residents had tested positive for COVID-19. To stave off sickness and even death, the State secure a hotel in Schaumburg for two weeks for the residents. The State government is sending in boxed lunches three times each day.
Executive director Ryan Dowd and ever-present Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain led the brigade of 10 buses, staggered to assist in registration, to the hotel. Meanwhile, Hesed House will receive a thorough cleaning. Even the Hesed House personnel made the move to the hotel. The buses received a thorough washing and cleaning.
• Meanwhile, the Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry asks customers and volunteers to limit numbers of individuals in each vehicle and to have trucks or hatchbacks clear for loading food.
Clear and concise, week 15:
• The word ask must be used as a verb and not the growing incorrect use as a noun.
• People is not plural for person. People is a group as in the American people. Use persons or individuals for plural of person.