Maintaining our Mental Health during a Global Pandemic there are worrying signs of growing anxiety as people around the world adjust to a new way of living so how can we deal with this and what are the long term effects this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im a homage enjoy him our world is experiencing an Extraordinary Health emergency hundreds of millions of people have been told to stay home and limit their contact with others the coronavirus pandemic has killed nearly 11000 people and cases continue to rise and the situation is creating panic and anxiety for some Health Experts are now warning are Mental Health is at stake nearly 264000000 people suffer from some sort of anxiety disorder and the Global Health crisis is leading to a loss of sleep concentration and stress for many doctors say theyre treating patients whove been affected by the constant bombardment of information about the virus and the uncertainty it brings so how do you protect your Mental Health w
Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time
The department of health and Human Services says the two men had been transferred to Travis Air Force base. One man passed away march 21st. The other died two days later. Both passengers were in their early 60s. Of the 1100 passengers who chose to be tested, 103 tested positi negative. The remaining results are pending. And this terrible coronavirus pandemic has also been a tragedy for several bay area families. Abc7 News Reporter stephanie sierra has one familys painful goodbye. Were still trying to get our arms around that she is gone. Mike carter and didi oh more are trying to find closure after mikes mom died in a San Jose Hospital monday night. Just a mere four days after testing positive for covid19. Thank god for the kind nurse that was taking care of mom. She on monday was able to get us on a facetime. Tell her that we loved her. The 81yearold mother of two flew from San Francisco to panama in late february for a visit. Feeling great, just like her bright, beaming smile capture
Trying to find out a way of funding if we spread it out too thinly, but which could support advertising if our board approves. In the short run, we are making sure that we are eliminating driver renewal fees for the extent of the Health Emergency. Drivers can continue working out on the street without paying their renewal fees while were in this Health Emergency. Its the least that we can do in order to support our operators. Were also thinking about if we can waive the taxi fees for the next two fiscal years, given the huge impacts being felt by our taxi operators. Those are things under discussion outside of our budget but which we would likely do. Im going to shift my bicycle gear and move on and talk a little bit about the Golden State Warriors. During this last fiscal year the chase arena was open and we were successful in that opening because this agency partnered with the Golden State Warriors and provided excellent transit and Parking Management and curb management. One of the
Public opinion has changed over the past five decades, and emphasizes the difference between immigrants, and refugees. Her class is about an hour. Today were talking about topic 18, which is South East Asian refugee migrations. If you have been following the news, in recent years, i imagine that you like me, of found it difficult to ignore the topic, of refugees. This is an in edge, refugees experience, fling communist vietnam, in 1975. In many ways, it reminds us of images we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories, from families perishing at sea, refugees are suffocating and me trucks, theyre crowding onto leaky boats, theyre drowning the bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety, and washing up on monetary beaches. They have been in the news for the past few years, related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflicts all around the world. Were not talking about refugees coming from syria, but from other war torn regions. Espe