My local hospital is asking people who have, or can buy, N95 masks, exam gloves, and other personal protective equipment to donate them to the ER. I have half a box of gloves and no other PPE, but I do have a bit of money and an Amazon account, so I ordered two boxes of nitrile gloves for delivery to the Mount Auburn ER. Estimated delivery date is April 4, which is better than not at all.

The person who posted gave a couple of area locations that have some of those things in stock, useful for those who have cars and aren't self-isolating. If anyone else has spare money and wants to help, your local hospital probably needs masks, gowns, etc. right now.
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
( Jan. 17th, 2020 07:45 pm)
I made donations to four different groups today, two political and two charities but picked partly for political reasons. I try to donate annually (more or less depending on my budget), but having realized a while ago that (because I am not going to be itemizing tax deductions) it doesn't matter whether I do things by December 31st, I lost track. I still don't like the frantic "donate in the next four days!" emails that go out at the end of the year, but I won't like them any more or less if I have already donated to the causes I support.

(I try to pick organizations/causes I can make ongoing donations to--this saves me some executive function, and means an organization isn't going to fritter away most of a one-time donation on future requests for money. I figure that there are more worthwhile causes than I, or any one person, can support, and I'm not going to worry about whether one is 3% better than another.)

What reminded me of this is that I have been listing donations, political and otherwise, in the same Excel spreadsheet that I use for tracking calls to legislators and other political activism, so the tab is there when I check on how many calls I've been making, or whether I've already filed a public comment on a specific issue.
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