Dear Neighbors,
With my usual Greetings and Salutations, I share my thoughts regarding the current world coronavirus pandemic – COVID-19 and declared District of Columbia public health emergency with you.
I am not a world leader, a Governor, a Mayor or a Council Member. However, I do love Washington, DC. I am a Washington, DC native son by miracle of travel of the birth canal, rather than by travel of Interstate 95. Yet, now in our collective history, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
I am, like you a caring District resident and a concerned community member. Like you, I care about all Washingtonians and people of America. Our instincts as a decent community is to rush to help those in need. At moments of community crises, many of us become the player on the sidelines, saying “Put me coach…I’m ready to play.”
While there may be a shortage in the Strategic National Stockpile, let there not ever be a shortage in our collective love and compassion for others. While at this moment we are directed to practice temporary social distancing – we must not forget the power of a loving heart – even as we are appealed not to give each other a firm handshake or a warm embrace.
Like other world leaders, state governors, city mayors, local government leaders and qualified health professionals, I hope you join in believing this public health pandemic will pass and the resilience of all of us as a nation and District residents shall be made manifest. As Mayor Muriel Bowser so often says, although we are eight (8) different Wards, yet, together We Are Washington, DC. And as the song writer wrote - from this moment, from this day – this test destiny beckoned – we belong, we become and as a City continue to be a majestic Washington, DC.
Stay safe…stay healthy…complete the 2020 Census.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
https://2020census.gov/en.html
Robert
Robert Vinson Brannum
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner
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