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May 13, 2020 – Preparing for a Future Pandemic
Speakers: Mary Ann and Duncan Moore

Questions:

What have we learned from this Pandemic?  How will future preparedness be shaped?

Are there apparent thoughts in the way that the US has dealt with the Pandemic that should be changed?

What do you think needs to be done differently?

In the short term, what will the new “social normal” look like?

How do we, as citizens, ensure that we will not be caught short again if Pandemics continue to arise?

Resources:

Desmond-Hellman, Susan. (April 3, 2020).  Preparing for the Next Pandemic: The Covid-19 Crisis has Clear Lessons for What We Can Do Now to Stop a Future Global Health Emergency.  Wall St. Journal.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/preparing-for-the-next-pandemic-11585936915

Wolfe, Nathan. (April 15, 2020).  Covid-19 Won’t be the Last Pandemic.  Here’s What We Can Do to Protect Ourselves.  Time.

https://time.com/5820607/nathan-wolfe-coronavirus-future-pandemic/

Gates, Bill.  (March 2015).  TED Talk: The Next Outbreak? We’re Not Ready.

McChrystal, Stan. (April 4, 2020).  Covid-19 and Global Affairs:  Leadership in Crisis.  Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

https://jackson.yale.edu/video/recording-of-covid-19-global-affairs-leadership-in-crisis/

Bush, George W.  (2005). Speech at National Institutes of Health.

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/11/20051101-1.html

May 6, 2020 – Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the US Healthcare System
Speaker: Dr. Betty Serow

Suggested Readings:

Ramadan, Lulu & Beall, Pat. (May 3, 2020). Florida’s path to pandemic: Warnings ignored, labs slashed, expertise lost. Tallahassee Democrat.

https://www.tallahassee.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/05/01/florida-path-to-coronavirus-pandemic-warnings-ignored-labs-slashed-expertise-lost/3063636001/

Scott, Dylan.  March 16, 2020.  Coronavirus is exposing all of the weaknesses in the U.S. health system. Vox.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/16/21173766/coronavirus-covid-19-us-cases-health-care-system

Ducharme, Jamie.  March 26, 2020.  Coronavirus will have long lasting impacts on the U.S. health care system and the poorest will suffer most.  Time Magazine.

https://time.com/5810260/coronavirus-will-have-long-lasting-impacts-on-the-u-s-health-care-system-and-the-poorest-will-suffer-most/

Levey, Noam E.  April 10, 2020.  Coronavirus already changing medical care in the U.S.  Los Angeles Times.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-10/coronavirus-lasting-changes-healthcare

Silverstein, Sara.  April 28, 2020. A top economic health researcher says the coronavirus reveals the biggest weaknesses of our health care system.  Business Insider.

https://www.businessinsider.com/top-economic-health-researcher-coronavirus-reveals-weaknesses-us-healthcare-system-2020-4

Mukherjee, Siddhartha. May 4, 2020. What the coronavirus crisis reveals about American medicine.  The New Yorker.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/what-the-coronavirus-crisis-reveals-about-american-medicine

 

 

 

Lay Academy Zoom Session

April 29, 2020– The Role of the Local Church in Major Disasters
Facilitator: Dan Drake
Speakers: Rev. Wayne Curry, Warren May, Pam Garrison, Dennis Smith

Suggested Readings:

Florida Conf COVID – 19 Update
https://www.flumc.org/covid-19-virus-update

The Bishops Blog – Alex Shanks post
https://www.flumc.org/blogdetail/what-i-am-learning-as-i-lead-through-the-covid-19-crisis-13534680

The Role of the Local Church When Crisis Strikes a Community
https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/the-role-of-the-local-church-when-crisis-strikes-a-community

A Pastor’s Role on Crisis Situations
https://www.pastoralcareinc.com/resources/role-of-a-pastor-in-a-crisis/

How Churches and Families Can Prepare for Disasters
https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2013/may-online-only/how-churches-can-prepare-for-disasters.html

The Complicated Role Churches Play In Disaster Relief
https://psmag.com/news/the-complicated-role-churches-play-in-disaster-relief

Churches Play a Growing Role in Emergency Management
https://www.govtech.com/em/disaster/Churches-Playing-Growing-Role-Emergency-Management.html

Lay Academy Zoom Series

Series Description: 
As we encounter major crises such as the coronavirus, what are the implications for us personally, for the church, and for society? We’ll hear from some of our elders who lived through the Depression and World War II, consider the role of the church in major disasters, discuss the future of health care in the U.S., and examine ways we might prepare for the next pandemic. Each week’s program will be based on short readings that will be distributed prior to the session.

Weekly Schedule: Wed.,  7 to 8 p.m., April 22 – May 13, 2020

April 22 – Listening to our Elders: Reminiscences of the Great Depression and World War II
Speakers: Dot Binger, Rubie Butterworth, Linda Yates, and Rod Dugger
Resources

April 29 – The Role of the Local Church in Major Disasters
Facilitator: Dan Drake
Speakers: Rev. Wayne Curry, Warren May, Pam Garrison, Dennis Smith
Resources

May 6 – Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the US Healthcare System
Speaker: Dr. Betty Serow
Resources

May 13 – Preparing for a Future Pandemic
Speakers: Mary Ann and Duncan Moore
Resources

Lay Academy Zoom Session
April 22, 2020 – Listening to our Elders: Reminiscences of the Great Depression and World War II
Speakers: Lynn McLarty, Dot Binger, Rubie Butterworth, Linda Yates, and Rod Dugger

Audio Recording of Session: https://www.tumct.org/lay-academy-stories-of-the-great-depression-and-world-war-ii/

Article in Historical Society Publication:

Suggested Readings: 

Brunet, Gillian.  5 Lessons from World War II for the Coronavirus.  Vox, April 10, 2020.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21214980/coronavirus-economy-jobs-ppe

Caron, Alan. Commentary: Coronavirus May Become This Century’s Second World War: The People Who Endured the Great Depression and ‘the War’ Have Some Lessons to Share With Us.  Portland, ME Telegram, March 22, 2020.
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/03/22/commentary-coronavirus-may-become-this-centurys-second-world-war/#

Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently: A Crisis on This Scale Can Reorder Society in Dramatic Ways, for better or worse.  Here are 34 Big Thinkers’ predictions for what’s to Come. Here’s How.  Politico.  March 19, 2020.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/19/coronavirus-effect-economy-life-society-analysis-covid-135579

della Cava, Marco. ‘Life May Change for us All’: How we Respond to the Coronavirus Crisis will be Defining, Historians say.  USA Today, March 29, 2020.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/29/coronavirus-crisis-response-reshape-american-history/5079760002/

Dougherty, Jesse.  Comfort from a 102-year-old Who Has Lived through a Flu Epidemic, the Depression, and WWII.  Washington Post, April 5, 2020.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/05/centenarian-coronavirus-1918-flu-depression-world-war-2/

Fitzpatrick, Frank.  Mounting Job Losses. Fear of the Unknown. We’ve Seen This Before During the Great Depression. Here are Some Lessons Learned.  Philadelphia Inquirer, April 11, 2020.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/joblessness-unemployment-pennsylvania-virus-coronavirus-great-depression-history-20200411.html