Page 24 - Communities Respond to COVID-19

We will soon be very short of finances as our contingency fund runs out. Our finances are tied up with
the retreat business and function through two nonprofits that have always run on a very tight budget.
We are engaging in fundraising.

We enjoy gardening and working on projects together and feel blessed that we are on these 67 acres
while some are cooped up in a single house or apartment in Seattle. It has been an unusually beautiful
spring. This has brought us closer through working together but we also feel the weight of what is going
on in our country, now with the murder of George Floyd and protests on top of the uncertainty, anxiety,
even fear that can free float due to the pandemic.
Kirsten Rohde

Meadow Wood Condominium, WA, USA

We are holding board and community meetings on Zoom, and holding monthly work parties outdoors.
We asked all single residents whether they wanted someone to check on them. None did.

Kay Wilson

Unnamed rural community, Hawaii, US

We are fortunate in that we had stocked some items (such as toilet paper) so that trips to the stores
were not needed for a while. We also grow some of our own food. And, since we are quite rural, we
haven't been as impacted as we might otherwise have been. Our main concerns are civil rights
violations, loss of freedoms, and impinging on our civil liberties (essentially, government trashing our
Constitution). We are also concerned about the possibility of forced vaccinations and that people who
visit us have to travel by plane. We don't know what impositions airlines are going to make and whether
that will reduce the likelihood that people will want to visit our community and possibly join us. We
have had no inquiries in our community since the government restrictions have been in place.