The Good News is ....

          

New Yorkers are giving nightly ovations to health workers.
 

 As the latest unemployment numbers show, people across the country are struggling to make ends meet during the coronavirus pandemic. That's why actor and director Tyler Perry helped out grocery shoppers in two hard-hit cities in the outbreak. On Wednesday, he paid for customers' groceries at 29 Winn-Dixie locations during shopping hours for seniors and high-risk individuals, the company said. In Atlanta, he picked up the tab at 44 Kroger stores.

 A New York City landlord is giving his 200 tenants one less thing to worry about amid the coronavirus pandemic as he waived rent for the month of April. "I want everybody to be healthy. That's the whole thing," Mario Salerno stated, emphatically. He said after some of his tenants told him that they were worried about paying rent because they lost their jobs due to the pandemic, he decided to take action.

 

A group of nurses in Nashville prayed together on the helipad atop the hospital in an uplifting scene during the coronavirus crisis. They prayed for patients and their families.

 

 Inspiring photo shows medical workers flying to New York to fight coronavirus

 

Surgeon, Elvis Francois, on a break, sings "Lean on Me"

Bon Jovi pitches in by washing dishes at his non profit restaurant, JBJ Soul Kitchen. His kitchen is feeding  hundreds of homeless or desperate folks during the pandemic.
 

 A senior citizen, married for 67 years, honors his wife by standing outside of her window at the nursing home where she has been isolated due to the Covid 19 pandemic.


Father Scott Holmer, a Catholic priest at a parish in Maryland, has started hearing drive- thru confessions  in his church's parking lot for the duration of the pandemic. He keeps the regulation six feet social distance from the driver's window.
 

New Yorkers sing to each other from their apartments to cheer each other up and prove that isolation does not have to mean that you are alone.

The good news is, that during an emergency or a disaster, people step up to the plate and prove they are compassionate, generous and human. Stay safe and stay well.